re: UGA fans have false sense of identity

The main problem at UGA is that the administration and the fans can not stomach what it takes to have a winning program.

The basketball coaches at UGA have traditionally had poor relationship with AU coaches and handlers.

The administration has turned away athletes that were actually cleared by the NCAA in multiple sports.

Caleb King and Mike Mercer passed their classes but were either suspended or kicked off the team for not attending a required number of tutoring sessions.

The President of the University works with the local police to take a tough stance on underage drinking that is not prevalent in other college towns. Matters which are handled in-house at other athletic programs are not at UGA.

The big money alumni complained at the beginning of the football season that the school was not being hard enough on the football players.

The Athletic Program has now instituted a no-tolerance policy (including a ban on down town Athens after dark) which I am sure has recruits clamoring to go there. Odell Thurman would have never survived at today’s UGA.

Further the relationship between UGA Athletics and high schools within the state are not nearly as good as it should be.

The bad publicity over that fiasco at Carver in 2009 virtually ruined that recruiting class (in addition to the fired coaches) and Georgia’s future chances at a lot of the players out of that school.

Their relationship with schools in metro-Atlanta is inconsistent and areas of the state that were once a lock (south Georgia) no longer are.