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Good article on the Paul Oliver Network
Posted on 7/13/14 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 7/13/14 at 12:58 pm
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from Seth Emerson
For those that don't know, it's the program created by Richt, Van Halanger, and a few former players to help former players get set up for success once their football careers end. It seems like a very good program.
from Seth Emerson
For those that don't know, it's the program created by Richt, Van Halanger, and a few former players to help former players get set up for success once their football careers end. It seems like a very good program.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 1:12 pm to Crowknowsbest
It's a stellar program. They're doing some really outstanding things behind the scenes at BM right now. They're getting a lot of former players involved as mentors in the personal lives of our current players in order to build a network and a brotherhood that these guys can rely on when times inevitably get tough (it's a hard, hard thing to accept that your playing days are over when it's all you can remember doing).
Posted on 7/13/14 at 1:29 pm to tylerdurden24
Really awesome stuff and this is part of what makes me so proud to be apart of UGA. I know many people seem to think that Richt is on his own time clock as head coach and will leave when he's ready to do ministry/service else where in the world. Does this fill that void for Richt and will this make him stay longer?
Posted on 7/13/14 at 2:17 pm to Red&Black
Do you think Mark Richt wishes players were paid?
Posted on 7/13/14 at 3:45 pm to Crowknowsbest
Here's another very good article with a bunch of Quentin Moses & Danny Ware quotes from the ABH...
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A few quotes from a long article which focuses a little more on Oliver, but still a lot about Richt's foundation...
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A few quotes from a long article which focuses a little more on Oliver, but still a lot about Richt's foundation...
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A week later, Georgia football coach Mark Richt huddled with some 40 or so former Georgia players after Oliver’s funeral at Burnt Hickory Baptist Church in Powder Springs. Richt vowed to make good on a promise he made to them when he recruited them, that he would take care of them while they were in Athens and afterwards.
“Coach Richt said that was kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Des Williams, who played fullback for the Bulldogs. “He was really going to put some effort into helping us as former players.”
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Chelsea Oliver started The Oliver Tree Foundation in Paul’s name.
It is focused on supporting youth, healthy living and supporting awareness and support research of CTE.
On a video on the website, Chelsea said her husband “did unfortunately have CTE” — Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a progressive degenerative disease of the brain that has been found in players with repetitive brain trauma. She mentions in the video that it’s caused by multiple concussions.
“When I talked to him, I never knew anything about that,” Ware said. “I knew he had went out and seen some doctors but I didn’t know as far as what it was for.”
CTE is associated with, among other things, depression, impaired judgment and impulse control problems, according to Boston University’s CTE Center.
Oliver is among 96 — including 48 former pro football payers — listed as brain tissue donors at the Sports Legacy Institute, a Boston-based non-profit founded in 2007 by former pro wrestler Chris Nowinski and Dr. Robert Cantu, a concussion expert.
Among those players is former Chicago safety Dave Duerson, former Atlanta safety Ray Easterling, former Philadelphia safety Andre Waters and former Denver receiver Kenny McKinley, all of whom committed suicide.
This post was edited on 7/13/14 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 7/13/14 at 6:25 pm to dallasga6
Those tickets that you really don't want? Those tickets that are at best worth $10 or less on the bridge?
UGA alumni that brings up a Church van full of kids. Good guy, spent a few years in the NFL. These kids have rarely been outside south Georgia.
Surely, some other season ticket holders can once in a while forgo $10 and expose a kid to Sanford stadium.
Charleston Southern, North Texas, Troy, UAB. Give them to a kid. I would even give them a free hotdog/Coke ala Georgia Tech.
UGA alumni that brings up a Church van full of kids. Good guy, spent a few years in the NFL. These kids have rarely been outside south Georgia.
Surely, some other season ticket holders can once in a while forgo $10 and expose a kid to Sanford stadium.
Charleston Southern, North Texas, Troy, UAB. Give them to a kid. I would even give them a free hotdog/Coke ala Georgia Tech.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 7:13 pm to nuwaydawg
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