Dawgs Once Beat Cocks With Dicks Out, Now Green

Hey, if the Dawgs can beat the Cocks with Dicks out in 1967, they can certainly do the same with Green out.

Unless you have been in an enclosed MRI tube for the past 4 hours, you know that AJ Green was suspended for 4 games by the NCAA for selling his Independence Bowl jersey for around $1000 (reportedly.) UGA will appeal the severe punishment in hopes of having it reduced like that of Alabama player Marcell Dareus who received close to $2000 from the party-throwing Miami agent scumbag. Dareus had his suspension reduced from four games to two. Dawg fans, don't count on a reduction for AJ. Don't pin any hopes on it. If it happens, then he will be a "luxury" in the Arkansas game and maybe the Miss. State game.

Do I think the time fits the crime? Hell no. But... he knew it was a violation to sell the jersey. Just because a rule might be stupid or unfair (on the argument that this one is) the players still know the rule exists and that a violation will result in a penalty. This is especially true with a huge asterisk at Georgia where we encountered serious potential problems after several players sold their 2002 SECC rings on Ebay. When I was a plebe at Navy, we were not allowed to mingle with civilian girls out in town. Was that a stupid rule? Damn straight. Did we intentionally violate it? Only if we could find civilian girls that would mingle with us. But, we would get stuck marching "tours" the next weekend if caught. Some rules are worth breaking. But breaking rules, no matter how petty, that will cause you to miss football games and let your teammates down is not worth breaking. Ever. The risk/reward calculus does not favor taking the chance.

I don't want to beat up on AJ Green, who is a fine person and a fantastic football player. I am sure he isn't the only player in the NCAA who has done this this year. But he got caught. I am sure that he knows the juice was not worth the squeeze so why belabor that point? The only thing for him to do now is to support his teammates and to be ready to play when he is reinstated.

So how do the Dawgs beat the Cocks without Green? Simple... DEFENSE. The Junkyard Dawgs are the ones who will bail him out Saturday. GATA Coach Grantham!

And the NCAA can still Kiss My Ass!