Damon Evans out at Georgia
Hey everyone. Happy 4th of July to all you American HOTTIES and your families.
We're very lucky to live in a country where people can say what they think in an honest manner. You know who made that happen, who makes that happen right now.
Thank you.
To the business at hand ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is parroting a report made by WSB-TV that Georgia athletic director Damon Evans will be employed for only a few more hours. The school reportedly will announce Evans' resignation on Monday.
You probably know that Evans recently was pulled over for DUI -- hours before his new contract (which called for a $110,000 raise) went into effect. Evans himself says drunken driving is a bad idea.
You probably know that some other, embarrassing things occurred during that traffic stop.
He'll soon be unemployed. And that sucks.
I like Evans. He's good for Georgia. He's good for the Southeastern Conference. He's a younger guy, a competent guy, whose voice among the league's power players stood out for its lack of stodginess.
Can Evans realistically remain athletic director? No. He's become a punchline. A leader can be a punchline, but the jokes must center around professional decisions. When personal decisions elicit the laughter, it's a totally different deal. Now he's the drunk AD with red panties in his lap.
That won't work.
So we'll soon hear how The New Guy is better. I won't believe it. Georgia already was making progress.
We're very lucky to live in a country where people can say what they think in an honest manner. You know who made that happen, who makes that happen right now.
Thank you.
To the business at hand ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is parroting a report made by WSB-TV that Georgia athletic director Damon Evans will be employed for only a few more hours. The school reportedly will announce Evans' resignation on Monday.You probably know that Evans recently was pulled over for DUI -- hours before his new contract (which called for a $110,000 raise) went into effect. Evans himself says drunken driving is a bad idea.
You probably know that some other, embarrassing things occurred during that traffic stop.
He'll soon be unemployed. And that sucks.
I like Evans. He's good for Georgia. He's good for the Southeastern Conference. He's a younger guy, a competent guy, whose voice among the league's power players stood out for its lack of stodginess.
Can Evans realistically remain athletic director? No. He's become a punchline. A leader can be a punchline, but the jokes must center around professional decisions. When personal decisions elicit the laughter, it's a totally different deal. Now he's the drunk AD with red panties in his lap.
That won't work.
So we'll soon hear how The New Guy is better. I won't believe it. Georgia already was making progress.
posted by Jay G. Tate at
8:52 AM
175 Comments:
No surprise here.
Yeah. You're right.
Still sucks.
RED CARD SUBSTANCE.
buh-bye.
At least they weren't orange...
ROJO.
Those little red panties, they passed the test..
Third Eye Blind
I know the guy made a big mistake and couldn't realistically keep his job, but you've got to feel bad for the guy. Just shows how one spur of the moment decision (in this case, to drive the car) can ruin a life...
Seanzie...I'm almost afraid to ask what kind of test they passed... :-P
This decision ultimately ruined a career.
Fortunately, he didn't crash into someone and take a life.
Best way to avoid DUI: Don't drink. Works for me!
Me too, JGT!
Although I have been pulled while driving under the influence of diet coke. Fortunately, I wasn't adminstered a breathalyzer test.
Its just so ignorant. He was about to get a raise to start earning $550,000 a year, but didn't have the common sense to call a cab?
Write it on your hand, for Pete's sake. Such a shame how this one bad decision has essentially ruined the man's life.
Man, every time someone is pulled over in the middle of the night smelling of alcohol, having trouble keeping his eyes open, with a pair of panties in his lap, and with a young girl who isn't his wife in the car with him, people always assume the worst.
exactly SFC. just doesn't seem fair does it?
:)
Why not let her drive if she gets pulled over no big deal even if she didn't have her panties on.
What a sad ending to this guy's career at UGA. All he had to do was keep his nose clean and he had it made. Guess that shows what happens when priorities get out of whack. Hopefully others will learn from it. I'm pretty sure he will. You gotta feel for the wife/family as they'll be suffering from his horrible choices for years to come.
My guess is the wife pulls a Mrs. Tiger and gets paid. This guy is screwed in so many ways.
And he was just collecting panties for homeless women. Give the guy a break.
Drinking is fine. Driving is cool. Having red panties in your lap probably means good things are about to happen.
But a confluence of those events...bad news.
"If you drink and drive, you lose."
He lost.
Unfortunately for her, he doesn't have Tiger's asset base to pull from. Once the lawyers get through with him in a few months, he's gonna have about half of whatever he has now. In the immortal words of Eddie Murphy from Raw - "Give me half eddieee"
I prefer to look at the good side. Sure he lost a good job and his family, but he did get a pair of red panties out of it, so all is not lost.
Happy 4th peeps! Hope you're having a good time with your family.
Fireworks about to blast off on the Isle of Palms over here in South Carolina.
What would our founding fathers think????
Probably be most impressed with the fireworks but not so much with
state of our country..
I wonder if Evans would have kept his job if this were a different conference? The south has little tolerance for this stuff and SEC fans love to pile on negative happenings at other schools.
One of my dad's best friends and a fine Auburn man just passed away after a long battle with cancer. RIP Brooks and War Eagle.
Prayer sent for Brooks's family, FSJ.
Anybody else see the irony in Tuberville being reprimanded for exercising his freedom of speech just before independence day?
I lol'd API.
Happy (belated) 4th to all the hotties.
Happy day after the 4th to al the Hotties. Hope you enjoy your "official" holiday today.
Wish me luck. I am off to my first day of boot camp. I'll see you later today ... if I survive with all these young whippersnappers!
Good luck cincy on the Bootcamp. The AJC has reported unofficially that Evans is indeed gone. The deed is never worth the punishment.
Quote from Chris Low
Remember, the SEC Football Media Days begin on July 21, and I'll be in Hoover, Ala., all three days reporting. To me, that's always been the unofficial kickoff to the SEC season. One change this year is that the teams are bringing three players for interviews instead of the traditional two.
Does this mean that football season is really a lot closer??
JaSteve, your comments have made me chortle multiple times this morning.
It seems like prominent folk would learn from Tiger's and numerous other situations that have been in the news. But apparently they do not.
Well, Bag took on the crimpson nation and their obsession with the number 13 in the Advertiser this morning. He wrote about the reaction to CL's list. Could it be his short time blogging for the HABOTN helped him see how annoying they can be?
Have a Happy 5th (of July)!
Bag's column:
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20100705/SPORTS/7050307/ODDS-AND-ENDS-Championship-claim-doesn-t-fail-to-rile-Tide-fans
13...8....Still a bunch of football titles and more than anybody else in the SEC.
Bags acts like football didn't exist prior to the AP poll. That's ridiculous on his part.
Lemme guess: Bags taking a "stand" and getting people riled up?
Nahhhhh.
Well, let's be honest. Organized football (to get a recognized national champ anyway) didn't really exist before the AP Poll.
And the fact that an Alabama SID basically decided in the 1980s, forty to fifty years after the fact, that Bama won national championships, speaks to this.
I agree. Eight is still a bunch of football titles. But it's the fact that eight is not enough and Bama fans cling desperately to this mythical number of 13 that is so troubling.
E-Bro eight should be enough and it is idiotic to claim more.
What is even worse is for a Univeristy of higher learning to put that hat on and proudly claim them. It should be embarrasing.
How many does Auburn claim?
Going by my reading of the Auburn media guide (pages 157-195), I see the following:
1913 (Billingsley)
1957 (AP)
1983 (New York Times, Rothman College Football Researchers Association)
1993 (National Championship Foundation)
2004 (Peoples Choice, which I believe was started by a member of this blog-George Brown)
Granted the 1913 team looked like a beast. Think they only gave up 13 points all year.
Supposedly Evans is gonna get three months severance and the previously earned $100,000 longevity bonus per some dude named Tim Tucker
I have decided we should claim the national title for 2008. Oh sure, I know we lost a few games along the way, but I give a lot of credit for style points and being in the news.
I haven't read the Tucker article, but TT is usually correct.
I guess it comes with the territory for some folks that success inflates egos thus causing the infidelity and other "bullet proof" type behavior.
Tuberville shouldn't have said what he said because he is a member of the conference that he predicted wouldn't last. Comments like that can be a self fulfilling prophecy.
What he said was true. The disproportionate sharing of football revenue makes the Big12 a bit of a joke because it is blatantly not on even playing field, but his comments weren't constructive.
Evans has resigned. I love these type of resignations. Either you resign or you are fired. Which one would you like?
Faker...I was expecting you to cite the Auburn media guide, and as they say, don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
How many Auburn fans have you ever seen wearing a shirt that says "Got Five?"? I'm guessing none. While it's regrettable that the Auburn media guide list these, it's nice to see that Auburn fans have never to my knowledge given given credence to this claim.
If you ask them when our last national championship was, I dare say that they would reply 1957. If you ask them how many national championships Auburn has won, they will reply one, 1957.
It's called integrity. GET SOME!!
P.S.
I still love FSJ and having him around here.
Oh, I have debatable integrity, but I've always said 1941 was bogus.....However, it evens out since we got ripped off in 1966 and 1977.
If you want to see something fun, go look at Notre Dame's championships and see how many of them came in years in which they were above playing in bowl games.
Notre Dame and Alabama: two peas in a sanctimonious pod.
But I do appreciate your integrity, Faker. You give Bammers a good name.
That said, what national championship do we get to count for getting jobbed in 2004?
what do we get to count?
We get to count 61 days til kickoff!
GO TIGERS!!!
WARRRRRR EAGLE!!!
There sure are a lot of that THT clan running around here.
Yet she speaks the truth.
War Eagle back atcha.
If all Bammers were as cool as FSJ my job as Pro Hater wouldn't be near as much fun...
But they're not, so it is.
I need football substance. Any word about Eric Smith and why it seemed we didn't hear much about him in the spring?
no point in wasting any time getting kicked out of school at UCLA.
Bama hatin's easy ...
(Ah, ah, ha)
Easy like Sunday mornin', yeah
I am in no way condoning drinking and driving but Roswell Road?
Dude.
Did the appeal of crossing into the US from Mexico with a rented car filled with heroin not come up or something?
Well, to Michael Adam's credit, he ran Dooley off to get this guy so I guess you reap what you sow.
Jamarcus Russell was arrested in an undercover sting today.
Cause...purple drank.
(purple drank is codeine mixed with soda)
Evening Hotties
Drinking, driving, philandering and all on Roswell Road is absolutely, no doubt about it asking for it. What an idiot. That place is loaded with cops. I live 20 miles away and even I know that. What a maroon.
Pay attention, folks. Norm's an expert at being a moron.
I admire the way UCLA handled the freshmen. Successful programs don't cater to players like that. I do believe Fulmer would still be at Tennessee if he had instilled a bit more discipline on that team.
Ready for some football!!!!
Thanks Jet. I was also pre-Law.
How to get pumped up for the football season? Go over to auburnwareagle.com and check out some video. It works for me.
There are many great videos there, you can't help but to get excited. The Brodie Bowl was a favorite, but I love seeing Ronnie Brown truck Jason Allen.
Stupid Blogger. My earlier comment in reply to Jet is now missing. As usual, it was excellent.
Sweet AU dreams, Hotties.
Time to RISE and SHINE Hot One
War Eagle y'all!!!
Everyone should be rested now, so let's rise and shine, Hotties!!!
60 days til kickoff!
GO TIGERS!!!
WARRRRRRRRR EAGLE!!!
Wow, has the blog ever been this slow? I hope it is because everyone has been out having a great time celebrating the 4th! Maybe things will get back to normal around here today.
I am going to try and walk - that is if I can put one foot in front of the other. I hurt in muscles I didn't know existed! I can't imagine being able to do bootcamp tomorrow, but I WILL!!!! Expect to see changes come football season - I will either be skinnier or dead!
2.0 tried to post on HABOTN while out walking earlier this morning, but without successs. She says "HI" to all the Hotties.
I'm working at the BuyMore satellite facility at federal prison today, so no HABOTN for me :-(
oh, blogger is acting nuts. That's why 2.0's post didn't show up. My post about 20+ minutes ago disappeared as soon as I posted the one 2 minutes ago.
Well, the long weekend was fun, but sadly, time to get back to work.
At least it's only a four day week. And football's less than two months away.
Good morning all. Hope everyone had a wonderful Forth of July because it is now time work.
Morning hotties!
Guess I'm the only one rested, refreshed and raring to go this morning.
Quite frankly, I refuse to believe that there's been no activity here since 8:29p Central last night. I suspect shenanigans. I want a refund.
mornin' hotties.
That's strange, my post about disappearing posts isn't there anymore.
Late yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Jet, Stewardess and I took a walk around the neighborhood -- we have a two-mile oval perimeter road -- and a bit of a breeze made it comfortable. The smell of fresh cut grass wafted across the path.
It reminded me that 8 weeks from Saturday we will be playing football. Makes me smile.
PEEPS:
I'm headed back to Montgomery tomorrow (Wednesday) and we'll get the blog rolling again FOR REAL on Wednesday night.
I've got some player previews in mind, Things That Interest Me About This Team and, of course, we have RoF Inductions ahead.
Thanks for being patient. Media Days is only two weeks away.
Bellefay: I can't believe they actually arrested JaMarcus for possessing a codeine-based cough syrup.
I mean, sheesh, is that how ticky-tack cops have become?
Is nobody posting or is Blogger messing up on me?
Wow...comments being deleted?
OK, the disappearing post act has returned.
Eddie,
I posted several times this morning, but none have come through. Not sure what is wrong.
I think everyone's taking Tuesday off as well, Eddie
Wonder what happens to all those posts people make that don't make it on to blogger? Think they are floating around in the blogger atmosphere?
I was wondering the same thing, Eddie.
Pretty sure it's blogger b/c I posted something around 5:30 this morning and it's not showing up.
Finally jumped the shark I guess.
Eddie,
I think nobody is posting. Must be celebrating something.
Regarding national championships, I don't think it is possible to have a meaningful one when there are so many leagues, so many teams playing in different orbits. I wish we could just enjoy the competition without worrying about such.
But then, I'm a woman, what do I know?
I don't think anyone is around
Jay- At least the investigative cops got their man....whatever. I thought the same thing. An investigation for that?
Blogger Blows for me BTW
Narcotics are narcotics to them police types, whether codeine, marijuana or whatever
Eddie - as best as I can tell, at least 3 of my posts from last night do not appear here. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
i posted one earlier this morning.
then POOF....gone.
Jay G, the cough syrup is commonly abused. He wasn't using it to get rid of a cough I promise you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_drank
hey, it looks like we're all back.
wow, crazy. for a while there i thought i was on that PURPLE DRANK.
I'm freakin' out, man.
DON'T FREAK OUT!!!!!!
Hey, mellow out man!
Blogger on the PURPLE DRANK.
purple drank made my 8:30 post show up at 9:54
Just wondering - does purple drank violet the NFL's substance abuse policies?
or violate?
violet..purple drank. i get it.
purple drank has the codeine.
codeine is definitely on the NFL's no-no policy.
there's a good video on ESPN about the drank.
I had a post disappear last night, but it has returned. I suspect a vast right wing conspiracy. Someone call Hillary Clinton.
And I didn't even try to do that Harrison. Subliminality at its finest.
Russell has apparently chosen the Maurice Clauret road to success. Good luck to him on that.
Purple drank + fireworks = less fingers for HABOTNing. Maybe that's why it's kind of slow around here.
Everyone's getting ready for Netherlands-Uruguay.
I'm ready for the Oranje.
I heart the Dutch.
So do I, even if the Oranje haven't been quite as brilliant as usual. The jerseys are sweet, though.
I wasn't around last week. Were Moon's soccer articles in the MA mentioned?
Purple Drank was made famous by triple six maufia (a rap group). Its also know as Sizzurp. Don't ask me how I know that and I won't tell.
Not sure I'd waste too much pity on Mr. Evans. He's receiving a severance package of some heft.
Imagine the fate of say an Army officer of ten year's experience in the same situation - Immediate discharge and potential charges for "conduct unbecoming" no matter how he performed on duty or even in combat.
I'd say Damon got the best deal possible out of the situation. Besides, based upon the transcript there were several bad decisions made, not just pulling out his car keys after drinking.
Sullivan013
I feel like I need some of this purple drank.
Paraguay uber fan Larissa Riquelme told me there are two good reasons to pull for Uruguay.
Yes, there are.
you're so right Jet.
you're so right.
Jet - please expand and expound on those two reasons.
There are two things I cannot stand: Prejudiced people and the Dutch.
OK, there's three ... add in Earnhardt lovin', mesh-hat wearin', Walmart browsin', Bear and Saban worshippin', cousin humpin' Bammers.
Go URUGUAY! Hate UAT! War Eagle!
¡si, si!
ehyou,
I don't remember anyone mentioning the JM soccer articles. He really stirred up a hornet's nest, didn't he?
Ah, Norm! What an unexpected surprise. And by unexpected, I mean completely expected!
ephemeral...
Yes he did. Stirring the pot is his M.O. so I don't know if he was being a concocted jerk or a genuine jerk.
Well jet, I used to like the Dutch, but Miss Riquelme has convinced me otherwise.
Yowza!
Well, to tell you a family secret, my grandmother was Dutch
Oh blow it out your @$$ MTD.
You guys are a bunch of...well, you know.
Well, raise my rent. You are MYTD.
Norm Nietzche says, "Out of HABOTN chaos comes order."
Dude had an epic 'stache. Definitely Mustache Wednesday worthy.
I sure am glad I know when to censor myself with all this frontier gibberish goin on.
Come on, boys! The way you're lollygaggin' around here with them picks and them shovels, you'd think it was a hundert an' twenty degree. Can't be more than a hundert an' fourteen.
Did I just read that JGT is returning Wednesday night? Football IS just around the corner!
Jay G,
You can remove the question mark now.
You're late PF. I already had that thought earlier.
ehyou - yeah, right. It's easy for you to come in here and say "I had that thought earlier". What next? You say you had the idea for Snuggies, The Bamboo Steamer, and The AwayInator too? Well I just don't believe you.
I just got Netflix for my Wii. It's amazing. Cable is now commercial-filled uselessness except for sports.
norm, don't make me curse you.
Just out of curiosity, has Chizik indicated which players he's bringing with him to Media Days?
If I were Chizik I would bring Ziemba, Adams, and Bynes or Stevens.
Seems like they typically bring seniors, but a lot of the (hopefully) key players this year will be underclassmen (like Adams).
His highest criteria will be guys he can trust to not say anything stupid.
PUPPET HOUR!!!! AAAHHHHH!!!!!
So I accidentally uninstalled a bunch of stuff on my new work computer. I have been a pain in the arss to the IT guys for the last week already, so I am feeling too sheepish to ask for the Windows XP installation CD to put the stuff back on. I will just have to survive without Accessories and Utilities for a couple of weeks. Then I will ask for the CD.
I let my kids watch the 1966 Batman Movie featuring all the TV stars and such. I bought it for like 3 bucks at Walmart back in college. The kids loved it. I still love it. So campy. "Robin! Get...me... the shark... repellant!"
One of my half year resolutions was to start using the stress relieving squeeze toys I have on my desk. I would totally get massive forearms then.
The problem with half year resolutions is that I have trouble keeping true to them for an entire half of a year. Sure, I'll start out strong, but by August I am back to my old habits.
Re: the batman comment, I grew up watching Super Friends episodes, and we just bought several old Super Friends episodes on DVD for my kids. The story lines are ridiculously bad, yet my kids are glued to it, just as I was at that age. One of the episodes was titled "Day of the Planet Creatures". They must have had to brainstorm a long time to come up with that title.
USC gives Seantrel Henderson release from his letter of intent.
When I was very young, probably around 5, I saw the best movie ever and for years waited to see it come on again. Then 3 or 4 years ago I did some searching on the net and figured out the name of the show, which turned out not to be a movie. I actually ordered the CDs for it because it has excited me so much when I was 5. Needless to say, it doesn't seem like the classic it once did.
It is good to see Kiffikin do the right thing and let these new recruits go since they really shouldn't be punished.
MrsTHT fed me a humongous dinner. Does she love me? Perhaps, but I doubt that had anything to do with it. I believe her motive was to sabotage my effort to be the first in the family to lose 5 lbs. It worked. I went from -1 yesterday to +1 today. I better go run so I can eat my bowl of ice cream tonight.
btw, I'm all the way up to two tenths of a mile before I give out. baby steps.
You go, THT. I am having to run (they call it jogging, I call it sprinting) with this boot camp. We had to run a mile yesterday and for 30 minutes today. I haven't run since college. They are also making us drink about 96 ounces of water. I am so sore and for some reason the position you have to assume to get rid of all that water is extremely painful. I think it is some evil plot.
OK, on basically little more than a lark, I packed up the family and headed for Panama City Beach. We checked in, headed to the pool, and this black guy see's my Auburn hat and gives me a "War Eagle" which I returned. Then I tell him he's got the Trooper Taylor look going on, hat backwards, etc. He says - "thats me, I'm Trooper Taylor!". He gives me his card, and I get a pic of him, me, and my sister. Avatar changing soon.
Leo wants to be a HOTTIE.
http://www.popsugar.com/Slide-Picture-Leonardo-DiCaprio-Cape-Town-Airport-South-Africa-8995813
API,
That is so cool! Can't wait to see your pic!
Jet,
Wonder how that came about?
Auburn is the king of the world!!
CincyT ...
I think he has a collection he wears when he's out in public to blend in.
Wearing an AU hat ... as he said as Frank Abagnale, Jr., to Jennifer Garner's character in "Catch Me If You Can" ... Even better.
What a bizarre picture.
not really, JGT. Bizarre would be seeing that lid on your coconut.
yes, I'm watching the replay of the Tour de France. But y'all can go ahead and blab about it since I've read the story of today's stage.
ehyou...I think your avatar and mine would really hit it off as friends.
Had a great 4th! Did everyone else have the wonderful weather?! Just driving by waiting on the new season.
That Leo picture is AWESOME!!!!
I guess it's a good thing I read the story of Stage 3. MrsTHT just confiscated the TV.
API ...great story. I'm glad Trooper is on our side.
Lane Kiffen doing the right thing. Not necessarily predictable for him, but good to see.
I'm watching right now, THT. You want a play by play? Should be interesting once the Peloton reaches the cobblestones.
When it comes to Kiffen: EDSBS says it best
SEANTREL TO BE RELEASED
Never say Lane Kiffin didn't do a sensible thing. "A", the indefinite article, indicating a singular here as USC will likely release Seantrel Henderson to attend another school (likely Miami.) He could say something about his lack of commitment indicating a general lack of character, but he would then burst into flames of hypocritical self-immolation.
For schools going on probation, any athletes that commit after the offenses should get a chance to transfer with no penalty. Not only would it not punish innocent kids, it would mean a more meaningful penalty for the school.
New thread UPZ.
I'm not going to the new thread. This is my favorite thread and I'll only post here.
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