SEC Suspends Three From Georgia-Vanderbilt Game
by Year2 on Oct 19, 2011 1:39 PM EDT
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PrintMost of the focus after the Georgia-Vanderbilt game was on the kerfuffle between James Franklin and Todd Grantham. While that was a newsworthy exchange, nothing much has actually come of it.
Contrast that with this particular exchange:
What you see there is Vandy's Logan Stewart diving into the back of Kwame Geathers' knees after the play was over, followed by Geathers taking a swing at Stewart. Both of them have been suspended for the first half of their next games by the SEC office. It's hard to blame Geathers for being so upset by such a blatant cheap shot, but if you even attempt to punch someone on the field, you're going to sit for some amount of time. As for Stewart, I'm surprised he didn't get a full game for that.
Also suspended for his next half is Georgia's Shawn Williams, who collected a pair of personal foul penalties in the game. Specifically it was a "flagrant personal foul" (see video) that occurred in the third quarter that got him the suspension as noted in the SEC's news release. You might also remember that it was Franklin being upset at Williams that initially sparked the exchange between the Vandy head coach and Grantham. There has been no word yet either way on whether the SEC will issue penalties of any kind to the coaches.
Vanderbilt's next game is against Army this weekend; Georgia's next game is against Florida in a week and a half.
UPDATE
The SEC says the Franklin-Grantham spat is being "handled internally". Sounds like Slive is making the coaches each write five-paragraph, double-spaced essays on why what they did was wrong to be due by Saturday morning. Or something.
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I thought what the Michigan St. player
did to the Michigan quarterback AFTER the late hit personal foul was worse than any of that. In a "son, what the hell do you think you are doing in front of this many witnesses, with TV cameras, replay, slow-motion, dvr’s, and ME (any halfway competent referee) watching YOU?
The men in stripes
should have given Geathers a cudgel to beat the mortal shit out of Stewart. That was a potentially career ending cheap shot after the play was over. The cudgel thing…now that’s a penalty.
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Everybody (i.e. the way the media has reported this thing) is just seeing this as poor ole Vandy and poor ole Franklin got picked on by the big bully UGA and Grantham without realizing that this whole thing was provoked by Franklin acting like a petulant little pissant and his team taking cheap shot after cheap shot at the Georgia players. I hope a lot of what is coming to light will at least make people say “yeah, that Franklin guy was kinda being a douche and I can’t really blame Geathers/Williams/Grantham for their reactions towards the Vandy players and Franklin”. But, it’s probably just easier to write that poor ole Vandy was getting picked on.
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For what it's worth
Of the two plays mentioned above, one occurred in the Third Quarter, and one occurred in the Fourth. Guess which one the Dawgs instigated?
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