re: Is Kirby losing control?

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The hell you say!

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We already knew the important details of the tragedy. All that was added into it is which bar the college kids went to, which isn’t newsworthy.

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Your opinion only.

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From a former AJC sports columnist:

“ Investigating what happened that night is certainly a story worth pursuing. But it doesn’t mean a story must be written.”

and the look of the article is so terrible that their editor felt compelled to explain why it was written.

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I'm sure those two young ladies (employed by UGA) and those football players were on their way to a Bible study at 2:45 a.m. ?

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They were all ADULTS so it ain't none of nobodies business where they were headed. They could have been headed home to get in a pile...what difference does it make to anyone other than them? They were young people...young people do all kinds of things that old folks remember fondly and act like is shocking. I hope they were in love and headed home to bump uglies til the next afternoon....why is anyone shocked by the possiblitly that young folks do such things and have since the beginning of time thus every last one of us alive today....

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It’s not that they went to a strip club. It’s that a person on staff took them and then crashed their car killing two people.

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Took them??? What kind of crazy do we have here??? Took them, like they were children who couldn't say no??? Ain't nobody took nobody nowhere....good greif.

As of yet I don’t think they have proof they were actually in the club. Even if they were - all were over 18 and what do you think college kids do. They party. And Athens has a lot of places to party.

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But the only school personnel that ever gave me a ride after doing these things in my college years were the campus police.

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You clearly weren’t a CFB player in 2023. I imagine this is a common set up all over the sec. So is Waffle House. So are young women hanging with young men in a college town.

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You clearly weren’t a CFB player in 2023. I imagine this is a common set up all over the sec.

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I have no doubt.

I think this tragedy is calling into question whether or not "the common set up" is the best practice.

Universities decide what and what they won't get involved in.

UGA basically unpersoned a young man for using a racial epithet at a ball game just a few years ago.

This unsavory activity has resulted in two dead young people and a couple more seriously injured. It just feels like the consequences are greater and perhaps should be considered a little more closely.

Just one man's opinion.

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It was an athletic department employee and a football player. Were school funds used? Were they drinking and driving? Were they in a school provided car? If the answer is no to all 3 then it’s a smear piece. If the answer is yes then UGA has an issue they need to have addressed.

Get those answers before you just dismiss this. If the answers absolve the university then you can dismiss them.

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The University is absolved either way. What, the University is going to cease to exist??? Folks are not going to send their precious babies to Athens and pay through the nose and jump through hoops while those babies are in high school to ensure that they can get into Athens? Y'all are delusional and are enjoying a tragedy by any definition because your football program is behind UGA currently. That is as sick as poisoning a tree or shooting an inlaw because they ain't upset enough over a narror win. The fact that the young ladies worked for the AD and two or several football players were involved is not in the least relative to the University being absolved because everyone involved is an adult. No one was cooerced into anything that anyone is aware of. If they were drinking again they are adults...adults do that. Only one of the was driving and that one person, were they drinking, is guilty of a crime...again, not UGA, that one person. Folks drink and drive unfortunately no matter their employer has to say on the subject. If they were using school funds someone most likely committed a criminal act and the victim would be the University.

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This unsavory activity has resulted in two dead young people and a couple more seriously injured.

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This tragedy can happen totally sober, with a DD, in an Uber, or in a taxi, and at any age.

The driver was close friends with many of UGA's OL and their significant others. Neighbor's kid has been dating another UGA OL for years and there's pictures of the whole group hanging out for years.

This was not UGA having dedicated staffers driving specified players as DD. I do not know any dating specifics as to if she was dating anyone, but everything I've seen is this was a close group of friends who experienced a tragic situation. Will wait for toxicology report, but I don't think there is the sensationalism a lot on here would like.

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I mean I don't disagree.

Young people everywhere do this.

But the only school personnel that ever gave me a ride after doing these things in my college years were the campus police.

It seems as if the athletic program sort of enables this behavior, which is quite different than just "boys are gonna be boys".

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I think many people are reading waaaaaaayyyyyyy to much into this. These were young people who spent a good bit of time together in a tight community by necessity. 2 were employees and 2 student athletes. All were adults. It is not uncommon for young people in such situations, say the workplace for instance, to get involved romantically. Most companies frown on it and have rules against it but for obvious reasons it happens and nothing is done. At worse that is what was going on here...and that is just beyond the comprehension of many apparently.

Also going to UGA and playing football, or any major program for that matter, is completely foreign to what most people experience in the late teens and early 20s. It may well be that UGA expects these young employees to look after these young athletes and keep them out of trouble if they can...it sounds like a fine idea. If this is what it is it didn't work out this time but how many times has it worked out in the past? We don't know because tragedy and scandal was avoided. If my son were at UGA as a football player I would appreciate the University doing what it could, within reason, to keep him out of harms way as much as possible. Nothing can guarantee that nothing will happen to a person but we can make an effort and at worse that is what this was, a well intentioned effort which went bad.

Some of you seem to be insinuating that the University has these young employees hired to be something of a call girl to student athletes. Ya'll are some sick puppies if you think that is possible. I get it that your football program aint keeping up and anything you can latch onto to make UGA look bad is relevant but feigning shock over young folks doing the same thing that old folks remember fondly is just stupid.