Sanders Commings Arrested for Domestic Violence

There are no facts or statements other than his arrest and waiting on bond. In domestic violence type cases the police tend to arrest first and ask questions later to keep everyone safe and create separation of parties. That’s where we are at right now.

You can’t say “the facts need to come out first” and then say “dismissed immediately”. It’s contradictory. This ain’t the AJC.

The judicial process will handle this with due process, and when that is settled, Coach Richt will make, as he always has, the appropriate decision on any punishment, suspension, dismissal.

… and, according to the quoted police report, he hit her once, while being partially restrained by other people. (And we don’t know the circumstances that provoked him even into that response.)

Now, you ain’t gettin’ me to justify hitting a girl in any way, shape, or form. There is no excuse for it, and it has no place in our society.

With that said, however, even with a lapse in judgement like this, it seems a little rash to dismiss a kid from the team for a misdemeanor charge that stems from one strike that occurred in the heat of the moment of a domestic squabble.

And we still don’t have all the facts, as several players have apparently recently tweeted. Let’s wait to see what Coach Richt does. If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that Mark Richt isn’t light on the discipline, and doesn’t treat his best players any differently from the scout team guys when it comes to discipline. He’ll make the appropriate move.

The rules on this are simple: You don’t hit a girl, period. Walk away if you have to, but you don’t hit a girl.

I didn’t particularly appreciate Seth’s final line there, by the way. Second “known” arrest in four months? Two unrelated incidents, one in October and one in January, are the only such incidents involving Georgia football players since October 2010, and, all of a sudden, we’re back to this “out-of-control program” crap, with a subtle and unsubstantiated insinuation that there may be arrests we don’t know about yet?

Let’s deal with the emerging facts of a single incident, rather than speculating about the big picture.

and was a two game suspension for simple battery (family violence) and destruction of property. The details in Seth’s blogpost are certainly not helpful. I’m going to guess 3 games, plus whatever he gets from University judicial (which would likely include anger management classes, community service and university probation).

And while it’s not as significant in the grand scheme of things, I think we now know what the first topic of discussion will be during Commings’ interviews with NFL personnel folks in about 14 months. He better start working on his answers now.

… because I wrote it about 5 minutes before the news about Joe Paterno came out, and now it sounds crass and grossly inappropriate. I was simply trying to carry forward a long-running gag, but that doesn’t change how it comes across now.

I’ve decided to leave this un-hidden for now, though, because even editors should have to own up to their dumbassed-ness sometimes. I want to apologize for making the comment, however. It was wrong.

he might be able to apply for a waiver, but I’d doubt it and he’d probably have to go through the supplemental draft if that’s the route he chose to go down.