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University of Georgia basketball players Mike Mercer, Takais Brown and Albert Jackson will face suspensions during the 2007-08 season for violating Athletic Association policy, according to an announcement Thursday from head coach Dennis Felton. Mercer will miss 15 games of the coming season, while Brown will miss nine games and Jackson will sit out six contests.
Mercer¹s 15-game suspension will begin once he has been medically cleared to participate. The junior from Snellville missed the last 10 games of the 2007 season after he suffered injuries to his right knee in the Bulldogs¹ win at South Carolina on Feb. 10.
The suspensions for Brown and Jackson will begin with Georgia¹s exhibition game against Clayton State on Friday, Nov. 2.
At the time of his knee injury last season, Mercer was the Bulldogs¹ second-leading scorer at 13.7 points per game. He started all 23 games in which he played as a sophomore.
Brown, a 6-8 forward from Flint, Mich., led Georgia in scoring last season at 14.2 points per game and also in field-goal shooting at 56.6 percent. He also averaged 5.6 rebounds per game, second-best on the team.
Jackson, a 6-10 center from Earlington, Ky., played in 25 games as a freshman last year, averaging 2.2 points and 2.2 rebounds.
I told Tim that knowing Felton, they probably got suspended for combing their hair the wrong way.
University of Georgia basketball players Mike Mercer, Takais Brown and Albert Jackson will face suspensions during the 2007-08 season for violating Athletic Association policy, according to an announcement Thursday from head coach Dennis Felton. Mercer will miss 15 games of the coming season, while Brown will miss nine games and Jackson will sit out six contests.
Mercer¹s 15-game suspension will begin once he has been medically cleared to participate. The junior from Snellville missed the last 10 games of the 2007 season after he suffered injuries to his right knee in the Bulldogs¹ win at South Carolina on Feb. 10.
The suspensions for Brown and Jackson will begin with Georgia¹s exhibition game against Clayton State on Friday, Nov. 2.
At the time of his knee injury last season, Mercer was the Bulldogs¹ second-leading scorer at 13.7 points per game. He started all 23 games in which he played as a sophomore.
Brown, a 6-8 forward from Flint, Mich., led Georgia in scoring last season at 14.2 points per game and also in field-goal shooting at 56.6 percent. He also averaged 5.6 rebounds per game, second-best on the team.
Jackson, a 6-10 center from Earlington, Ky., played in 25 games as a freshman last year, averaging 2.2 points and 2.2 rebounds.
I told Tim that knowing Felton, they probably got suspended for combing their hair the wrong way.
posted by Jmac at 1:30 PM
6 Comments:
I didn't realize they were allowed to have hair.
When will UGA basketball ever catch a break?
What break? Looks like this is pretty much self inflicted.
To paraphrase the lines from A League of Their Own,
"it's a simple game, you get up, you go to class, you take the tests, and you pass them"
Doesn't someone in the AA monitor the student athlete's class attendance?
I don't disagree with you at all. In fact, most of the dark events of UGA basketball history have been self-inflicted just like this one.
I support the new policy and don't mind that Evans and Felton are making sure that it's upheld. It's just that once agin on the eve of a somewhat promising season, we've shot ourselves in the foot before we even tipped off.
It's as if Stegeman is built on an ancient burial ground or something.
If I understand it correctly, the blanket attendance policy is unnecessarily harsh. If you can miss a few classes (I guess my main objection is to just how few absences can get you suspended) and still make the grades, you should be able to do so.
Jared
Having been in Stegeman at night, when all is dark and quiet, I can tell you that there are strange, spooky things that happen in there from time to time.
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