OT: Gurley Suspended Indefinitely
Official release from Georgia Atheletic Dept:
Oct. 9, 2014
ATHENS ----- University of Georgia tailback Todd Gurley has been indefinitely suspended from competition by the UGA Athletic Association during an ongoing investigation into an alleged violation of NCAA rules.
"I'm obviously very disappointed," said UGA head football coach Mark Richt. "The important thing for our team is to turn all our attention toward preparation for Missouri."
Link is here
Gurley 8.2 ypc and 8 TD's this season. Averaging 154 yards per game. Ouch.
October 9th, 2014 at 5:33 PM ^
Beat me to the punch by seconds!
October 9th, 2014 at 5:33 PM ^
October 9th, 2014 at 5:34 PM ^
Heisman front runner down for the count.......Wow.
October 9th, 2014 at 5:34 PM ^
October 9th, 2014 at 6:29 PM ^
...he really is that good. Consensus is he's the best RB they've had since Herschel.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:44 PM ^
October 9th, 2014 at 10:05 PM ^
He's the best RB I've seen in CFB since Peterson. The guy is such a beast.
October 9th, 2014 at 10:45 PM ^
Gurley is a man among boys, but Richardson's brute strength was well beyond what any normal human being should have.
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October 10th, 2014 at 11:33 AM ^
pretty sure they got those numbers backwards, no way someone averages more than 3 yards and a cloud of rubber pellets these days...
October 9th, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^
That guy on reddit called this weeks ago.
October 9th, 2014 at 5:37 PM ^
And do you have the thread from back then by chance?
October 9th, 2014 at 5:38 PM ^
October 9th, 2014 at 5:42 PM ^
I don't recall specificas, but basically he knew a guy who bought autographs and said someone was being investigated and was going to be suspended. His hints led everyone to believe it was Gurley.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:21 PM ^
Here is the thread.
October 9th, 2014 at 5:41 PM ^
curiosity
October 9th, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^
Holy schmoley.
October 9th, 2014 at 5:37 PM ^
Sadly, this has become an annual Heisman race tradition.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) October 9, 2014October 9th, 2014 at 5:39 PM ^
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October 9th, 2014 at 5:40 PM ^
I mean it worked out for the last 2 winners..
October 9th, 2014 at 5:41 PM ^
Found it earlier, here is the link. Basically he was going overboard getting paid for his autograph.
October 9th, 2014 at 5:51 PM ^
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October 9th, 2014 at 5:42 PM ^
An SEC school caring about NCAA rules? What the hell?
October 9th, 2014 at 5:51 PM ^
HIRE MARK RICHT
October 9th, 2014 at 6:03 PM ^
Right? Imagine that. An SEC school not really following the rules.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:05 PM ^
Georgia has always been an outlier SEC school (in a good way) in terms of rules and cheating. I know Richt gets shit on quite a bit but I've always liked the guy.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:29 PM ^
He's rarely elite, but he's solid and fields some pretty great teams that are about equal to us as far as recruiting rankings go. Plus we're in the B1G, so if he can win like that in the SEC, he could get us in the playoff here
October 9th, 2014 at 7:02 PM ^
Mark Richt is a fantastic human being outside of coaching. Would welcome him here. He's not too old at 54, runs a similar system, has produced a lot of NFL talent over the years, and runs a clean program at one of the better SEC schools (some academic magazines put UGA in the top of the second tier of "Public Ivies"). Sadly, he's been south of the Mason-Dixon for the past 30 years so it's gonna take quite a bit to pry him up here.
October 9th, 2014 at 7:20 PM ^
So he is basically Lloyd Carr. Which many people were happy to see go.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:22 PM ^
I joke w/ my UGA friends down here that we could trade Georgia to the Big Ten for Ohio State and improve the outlook of both conferences.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:50 PM ^
October 9th, 2014 at 7:22 PM ^
The knuckle-dragging types who phone in to talk radio shows and chant "ESS-EEE-SEE" at the championship games that their team never plays in want Richt gone because he is generally considered to underachieve considering the level of high school talent that comes out of this state (I live in Georgia in case that's not apparent).
BUT.
There is a HUGE silent majority who believe that winning with integrity is what matters most. They get frustrated over Richt suspending players who get busted for weed one time when other schools in the conference allow up to three strikes for it. The comment threads are full of people saying that they'd rather lose without Gurley than win with someone like Cam Newton or Jameis WInston on their team. They sound a lot like Michigan fans to be honest, and that is in no way damning with faint praise.
October 9th, 2014 at 5:51 PM ^
This couldn't have happened before I put money on the GA spread this weekend!? In all seriousness.. Unfortunate.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
In my little world, in my sad little world...
October 9th, 2014 at 5:53 PM ^
October 9th, 2014 at 5:54 PM ^
October 9th, 2014 at 5:54 PM ^
Must...resist...temptation...to...taunt...my...brother...
My brother is a UGA grad, and he is the most down-to-earth fan I know. He doesn't gloat in victory or wallow in despair like I do (well, used to). He's an orthopedic surgeon, and so he knows a lot of football players are living on borrowed time.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:40 PM ^
October 9th, 2014 at 5:57 PM ^
If the NCAA isn't the one making money off of Todd Gurley's name, they sure as hell aren't gonna let TODD GURLEY make the money.
Fuck the NCAA.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:05 PM ^
People get mad when the NCAA doesn't enforce their rules. Now you're mad that they are? I don't get it.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
October 9th, 2014 at 6:20 PM ^
Their rules are awful. Sure, enforce them. They're still terrible.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:31 PM ^
People are mad that the rule is ridiculous.
If I am a promising writer and receive a full-ride scholarship through UM's English Dept. and publish a novel while I'm still in school, should I be barred from profiting off of royalties? Should UM's press be the only publisher allowed to produce my work? Should they then be allowed to keep all profits made from my likeness/name/work?
October 9th, 2014 at 6:38 PM ^
October 9th, 2014 at 6:46 PM ^
That depends - are you competing against writers from other schools and are their rules in place (that your schools and all of the others agreed upon) to make sure there is a level playing field?
People make this analogy to music or business or all these other things. The difference is competition. If you are just doing it on your own, then of course there are no rules. But if you are getting your scholarship because you are competing with other schools, there will always be rules in place to make sure there is some level of competitive balance. That is a good thing. Whether you agree with the particular rules or not is different, but "the NCAA" didn't write and approve those rules, the schools did.
People act like the NCAA is some organization that exists to piss off the schools, when it's the schools that empower them.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:52 PM ^
How does signing an autograph provide a competitive advantage? Are autographs steroids?
October 9th, 2014 at 6:58 PM ^
Not every NCAA rule is about making the player bettter at football (in fact most aren't). Giving Chris Webber thousands of dollars didn't make him rebound any better, did it? It provides a competitive advantage because it may have encouraged Gurley to go to Georgia (unlikely) or encouraged other players to pick Georgia (more likely) because of the money they could make selling their autographs.
October 9th, 2014 at 7:04 PM ^
But if you a system that allows this to happen, the field is level. Everyone has an equal opportunity. I don't favor the schools directly paying players, but I do think that they should be able to sell their likeness on the free market.
October 9th, 2014 at 7:09 PM ^
Ideally, that sounds fine. But I don't think anyone truly thinks it would work that way. You're a 5-star? If you come to my school I'll buy more of your likeness than anyone else. Sure, other schools have the opportunity to have their boosters do the same, but that's not really what the schools want college football to turn into.
October 9th, 2014 at 7:11 PM ^
I mean you're going down the slippery slope scenarios.
October 9th, 2014 at 7:16 PM ^
Sure, but that would most definitely happen. If boosters are attempting this when it's against the rules, it would be all over the place if you make it legal. I don't think the rules were put in place to keep a player from making a couple hundred bucks. But you have to draw your line somewhere and the easiest place is "zero."