Isaiah Crowell Ineligible Temporarily; Mark Richt Collects Violations (Updated)
by Year2 on Mar 14, 2011 2:15 PM EDT
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Georgia's star running back recruit Isaiah Crowell has been declared ineligible due to the fact that the school simulated a gameday experience during his official visit in January. Seeing as how it is a secondary violation, Crowell should be reinstated in the not-too-distant future.
What happened was the starting Bulldog offense lined up without a running back on the football field and Crowell was given a jersey while standing in the running back position. Mark Richt didn't believe that to be a gameday simulation, but the SEC interpreted it as such and therefore UGA reported it to the NCAA. I can't think of a single time where an athlete missed any meaningful team activities due to an improper gameday simulation on a recruiting trip.
Richt, for his part, got a letter of admonishment and will not be allowed to call recruits or their families in April. It also means that Georgia committed violations in the recruitment of their biggest offensive and defensive prospects. UGA reported five secondary violations due to a pair of former Bulldog players being present at Ray Drew's announcement. Of course in Drew's case, the decision had already been made and their presence didn't give UGA any kind of advantage.
Perhaps this is a reversal of the old adage about players taking on the character of their coaches. Georgia players are notorious for picking up minor and usually meaningless traffic violations; now Richt is picking up minor and mostly meaningless recruiting violations too.
UPDATE
The NCAA has already reinstated Crowell. Not that it was ever in doubt.
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Just to clarify
It was on the 30 yard mini indoor toy practice field that Richt has underneath his office. Richt should have known better but it’s hard to build up much anger about players in shorts and t shirts running a “gameday simulation” on a 30 yd indoor practice field.
I don't watch all that many Georgia games
but does this actually simulate the gameday atmosphere at UGA games?
The current student-athletes walked into the practice facility and were dressed in their game-day uniform tops only
Is it common for Georgia games to feature players with no pants, or does Mark Richt covertly run a double secret intramural league where players wear no pants and he calls all the fouls dressed as a Catholic priest?
/just kidding
"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops...depending on the breaks." - Buck Turgidson
"Richt is picking up minor and mostly meaningless recruiting violations too."
There’s a typo in that sentence; you mistakenly added an “s” onto the end of “meaningless recruiting violation,” which should have been singular.
Mark Richt had nothing to do with Ray Drew inviting David Pollack and Randall Godfrey to his press conference. While Georgia had to report that utterly silly nonevent, no one in Athens was in any way connected with it. Mark Richt sent ten guys onto a practice field and handed a prospect a jersey. That begins and ends the sum total of everything he did that could be considered a recruiting violation.
Yawn. After the last couple of offseasons we’ve had, if this is what passes for a newsworthy event for our football program this winter, I’ll take it.
Go 'Dawgs!
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