UGA AD Discusses Secondary Violations

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With so much talk over CLK and his secondary violations, I found the following perspective from UGA AD Damon Evans interesting.

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Q: Lane Kiffin has been in the news a lot the last couple weeks with criticisms of several other SEC programs, including Georgia. You read the message boards, listen to talk radio, and you hear all kinds of stuff that varies from fact to vague interpretations of the truth. First off, have there been any recruiting violations at Georgia that you are aware of, and secondly, what do you think when other programs make accusations or insinuations about Georgia that manage to work their way into the national discussion?

DE: As far as violations, and talking specifically football, I have the utmost confidence in Mark Richt, and I know he does things the right way, and that's never a concern.

Are there violations? Yes, because they're secondary violations and that's what they are secondary in nature. The definition of those violations are inadvertent violations where you make a mistake. You're only allowed to call a kid once a week, and you got mixed up where Coach X called and Coach Y called, so now we weren't on the same page and that's a violation. So we have violations, and I don't know what the number of those are, but they're inadvertent.

The other thing that I go back and say is, if you don't have any violations at your institution, in my humble opinion, you don't have a good system of checks and balances in place because people are going to make mistakes.

I truly believe that the secondary violations that occur here are inadvertent, they're mistakes that are made, and I have the utmost confidence that our staff is not that way. We have a guy leading us who has a high level of integrity and we're in a place where we don't need to cheat to have success here, so I don't get caught up in what people say because it's like a snowball someone can say one thing, but it's what I know and how I feel, and I feel great about how our football staff conducts its business.

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They happen all the time...the only difference is our media reports everything they can get their hands on.
 
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They happen all the time at all the schools.....UT is just getting a ton of attention. Would be interesting to see if you could get your hands on a report of secondary violations at all the SEC schools....would probably be very interesting...but they are pretty insignificant.
 
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abvol said:
They happen all the time...the only difference is our media reports everything they can get their hands on.
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EXACTLY. I honestly believe that the majority of this publicity (good and/or bad) has to do w/ the local media outlets that IMMEDIATELY reported Kiffin's comments at the recruiting brunch as well as the stories regarding secondary violations. 99% of the "national" articles published on the violations were just links to KNS. If I were him, I would stay away from the local media even more than he initially did. They certainly aren't helping matters.
 
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The other thing that I go back and say is, if you don't have any violations at your institution, in my humble opinion, you don't have a good system of checks and balances in place because people are going to make mistakes.
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I think that he means self-reported secondary violations...otherwise this doesn't make sense to me.
 
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Secondary violations are everywhere, but the media only makes it a big deal when Lane K and his staff commit them.
 
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The comments back from the AD were spot on, but the reporter seemed very immature,,, maybe he is a first year student and is raw. I can't remember any article showing where CLK charges Georgia with Recruiting Violations. If this kid reporter is using material, it is coming from the ESPN blog and here. And he twisted the facts to reflect back on CLK -- the coach just can't catch a break other than I guess getting mentioned in the article.

Back to point,, the reporter comes off like a jerk and misses the meaning of these posts.
 
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Lane Kiffin has been in the news a lot the last couple weeks with criticisms of [...] Georgia.
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Never happened. UGA press wants him to be bad guy, but Kiffin has never said anything bad about Georgia.

A few weeks back he said that he wants to get the kids in Georgia that UGA misses, and their rivals guy claims that is a slam.

There is not one Kiffin quote that anybody can produce where he said anything bad about UGA. All smoke and mirrors to get the UGA fan base all pissed at Kiffin.
 
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Georgia: While putting together his staff, Kiffin went after Georgia defensive line coach Rodney Garner even though the Vols already had hired Ed Orgeron as defensive line coach. Garner, who is one of the best recruiters in the nation, wasn't interested in leaving Athens, but he got a pay raise nonetheless.

Later, in a radio interview, Kiffin denigrated Georgia's recruiting efforts in its home state. But Georgia, as usual, did a great job in-state, signing four of the state's top seven players and 10 of the top 24.

Finally, one of Georgia's top signees is wide receiver Marlon Brown, from Memphis. At the news conference Wednesday to officially announce he was signing with the Bulldogs, Brown said of Tennessee, which was one of his finalists, "Right now, they have a staff with no track record."

Thursday, Kiffin said Brown called him Tuesday night with the news; Kiffin also blamed Brown's grandmother for him not being a Vol.

"We wish Marlon the best of luck, but he called … and said he loved it here but his grandmother wouldn't let him come," Kiffin said. "I don't know what you do about that."

OK.... Not exactly specific concerning what was said now, were they? The UGA fanbase is looking for ANY excuse to be relevant in this discussion but it ain't really happening for 'em...
 
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Bryan1 said:
Maybe Georgia is fealing left out ?
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Funny you say this but it may be true. Kiffin has gone after Florida and Bama but strangely left UGA alone. Maybe he just feels they are insignificant in the big picture of things. It's pretty hilarious when schools start feeling slighted by not being attacked. Sheesh, where does it all end?
 
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UGa's whining AD better get used to it---Kiffin's going to be bringing in big time recruits that Ga used to get, and Kiffin will start beating them in a couple of year with regularity! UT will soon be on top in the SEC east baby----Kiffin is taking no prisoners.
 
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See, I told you UGA fans are by far the worst in the SEC. You think UA fans are bad? What about FU fans? At least they have the hardware to back up their arguments. UGA? Nothing. Just has been comments and never will be fans
 
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