News Article: Georgia football player Devin Willock, staff member Chandler LeCroy killed in car crash

[92tide]

Alcohol, cash used in UGA football recruiting, court filing alleges

Attorneys representing a former University of Georgia football recruiting analyst injured in a crash involving alcohol that killed two members of the program say coaches and staffers regularly drove UGA athletic association rental vehicles after drinking. The attorneys also allege that UGA’s...

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Attorneys representing a former University of Georgia football recruiting analyst injured in a crash involving alcohol that killed two members of the program say coaches and staffers regularly drove UGA athletic association rental vehicles after drinking.

The attorneys also allege that UGA’s coaches spent cash during unofficial recruiting visits. Such spending by coaches may have violated NCAA rules, according to court papers filed on Thursday.

 

[bamagradinATL]

It’s about to get ugly.

 

[B1GTide]

It’s about to get ugly.

I will believe it when I see it.

 

[Evil Crimson Dragon]

Alcohol, cash used in UGA football recruiting, court filing alleges

Attorneys representing a former University of Georgia football recruiting analyst injured in a crash involving alcohol that killed two members of the program say coaches and staffers regularly drove UGA athletic association rental vehicles after drinking. The attorneys also allege that UGA’s...

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Attorneys representing a former University of Georgia football recruiting analyst injured in a crash involving alcohol that killed two members of the program say coaches and staffers regularly drove UGA athletic association rental vehicles after drinking.

The attorneys also allege that UGA’s coaches spent cash during unofficial recruiting visits. Such spending by coaches may have violated NCAA rules, according to court papers filed on Thursday.

Not Jawjuh....................they are a paragon of virtue

 

[Tidelines]

I will believe it when I see it.

Make it two of us.

 

[92tide]

“My client’s iPhone survived the crash fully intact and contains thousands of pages of recruiting texts describing the inner workings of UGA’s recruiting activities,” Bowles’ attorney Rob Buck said in a statement. “The new texts included in the Amended Complaint establish that the Association was fully aware recruiting staffers were regularly allowed to drive recruits and their families around Athens after drinking alcohol at Association sponsored events.”

 

[92tide]

yeah yeah yeah

The filing includes 11 text messages to bolster the various claims. In one such exchange in June 2021, former UGA football staffer Matt Godwin told other staff he was directed by “Cochran,” presumably Georgia special teams coordinator Scott Cochran, to entertain an offensive lineman from another school.

“Cochran told me I gotta get Mitch Zoloty [crude euphemism for getting drunk] tonight so gonna head downtown for a celebratory beer if anyone would like to join,” according to the text quoted in the complaint.

 

[92tide]

But texts published in Bowles’ original complaint, filed in July, cut into UGA’s narrative. Text conversations dated prior to the Jan. 15 crash show Bowles’ supervisors regularly told her and other recruiting analysts they could keep their rental vehicles overnight.
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“Text messages show that on occasion supervisors and coaches, in effect, encouraged recruiting staff to drink alcohol with football prospects’ families-well aware that staffers would leave the events after consuming alcohol,” the complaint reads.

The texts suggest that recruiting staff drank at Smart’s home during recruiting events. In one text exchange from January 25, 2020, Godwin sent a picture of an empty Corona beer bottle to a football staff group chat that Bowles’ attorneys said was taken in the basement of Smart’s home.

“One down the hatch,” Godwin texted to a group of football program staffers.

 

[Bama_N_Va]

These could be smoking guns, UGA might have to suspend 2-3 staffers or even janitors for 4 games next year!!!!

 

[rolltide7854]

These could be smoking guns, UGA might have to suspend 2-3 staffers or even janitors for 4 games next year!!!!

They might downgrade the cars to Ford Focus's.

 

[Evil Crimson Dragon]

They might downgrade the cars to Ford Focus's.

Or Smart cars

 

[92tide]

nothing to see here folks, please move along now.

UGA lawsuits over fatal crash likely delayed for months

A pair of lawsuits that arose following fatal crash that stunned the University of Georgia football program appears to be on hiatus through April, a delay the lawyer for Devin Willock’s father says benefits defendants Jalen Carter and the UGA athletic association.

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Athens state senator Bill Cowsert, who is representing Carter, a former UGA defensive star, has told a judge he will step away from the cases through April 8. His filing cites a Georgia law that grants lawyer-legislators broad leave from their legal caseload during the legislative session, which typically runs through the first few months of the year. The law allows Cowsert to effectively halt hearings and discovery in the UGA cases, first filed last summer.

 

[davefrat]

nothing to see here folks, please move along now.

UGA lawsuits over fatal crash likely delayed for months

A pair of lawsuits that arose following fatal crash that stunned the University of Georgia football program appears to be on hiatus through April, a delay the lawyer for Devin Willock’s father says benefits defendants Jalen Carter and the UGA athletic association.

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Athens state senator Bill Cowsert, who is representing Carter, a former UGA defensive star, has told a judge he will step away from the cases through April 8. His filing cites a Georgia law that grants lawyer-legislators broad leave from their legal caseload during the legislative session, which typically runs through the first few months of the year. The law allows Cowsert to effectively halt hearings and discovery in the UGA cases, first filed last summer.

So he gets to do nothing on the case for months while he's at the capitol doing nothing for months.

 

[Toddrn]

nothing to see here folks, please move along now.

UGA lawsuits over fatal crash likely delayed for months

A pair of lawsuits that arose following fatal crash that stunned the University of Georgia football program appears to be on hiatus through April, a delay the lawyer for Devin Willock’s father says benefits defendants Jalen Carter and the UGA athletic association.

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Athens state senator Bill Cowsert, who is representing Carter, a former UGA defensive star, has told a judge he will step away from the cases through April 8. His filing cites a Georgia law that grants lawyer-legislators broad leave from their legal caseload during the legislative session, which typically runs through the first few months of the year. The law allows Cowsert to effectively halt hearings and discovery in the UGA cases, first filed last summer.

This happens all the time. That's why he was hired.

 

[Bama_N_Va]

Any updates or still delayed to April???

 

[AlexanderFan]

It does explain Cochran resigning.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

It does explain Cochran resigning.

How so?

 

[AlexanderFan]

How so?

He’s literally on a text telling the recruiting people to get someone drunk.

And he resigned this week.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

He’s literally on a text telling the recruiting people to get someone drunk.

And he resigned this week.

Wow! Where are you seeing that?

 

[AlexanderFan]

Wow! Where are you seeing that?

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