I think he should resign.
Go Gators!!!!
Ken B. (NYC Gator)
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IS there anyone that thinks Evans should NOT be fired?
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Date: Fri, July 02, 2010 10:42 pm
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Police report: UGA AD urged officer not to arrest
By GREG BLUESTEIN Associated Press Writer
Published: Friday, July 2, 2010 at 3:43 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 2, 2010 at 3:43 p.m.
ATLANTA (AP) - University of Georgia athletic director Damon Evans repeatedly
referred to his position at the school before his arrest on a drunken driving
charge and asked the patrol officer if there was ``anything you can do without
arresting me,'' according to a police report released Friday.
Evans told the Georgia State Patrol officer several times he was the school's
athletic director before he was arrested late Wednesday and charged with DUI
and failure to maintain a lane, according to the report. Also arrested with him
was 28-year-old Courtney Fuhrmann, who was charged with disorderly conduct.
``I am not trying to bribe you but I am the athletic director of the University
of Georgia,'' Evans said, according to the officer identified in the report as
M. Cabe.
The officer also said that Evans asked to be taken to a motel instead of jail
or to be let off with a warning. According to the report, Evans later said: ``I
am not trying to bribe you, but is there anything you can do without arresting
me?''
In the report, the officer noted he found a ``red pair of lady's panties
between (Evans') legs.'' When he asked Evans, a 40-year-old married father of
two children, what he was doing with the underwear, Evans said: ``She took them
off and I held them because I was just trying to get her home,'' according to
the report.
Evans told the officer that Fuhrmann was nothing more than a friend, according
to the report. But the officer said that Fuhrmann later told him that the two
had been seeing each other for ``only a week or so.''
``Just to let you know, it will be erased because he is the athletic director
of UGA and he has that power,'' Fuhrmann told the officer, according to the
report.
She was charged with disorderly conduct after police said she repeatedly
ignored warnings to stay inside the 2009 BMW while the trooper was conducting
the field sobriety test and later acting ``combative'' in the back seat of the
patrol car, according to the report.
``I apologize and don't want to use my influence but she is trying to protect
me,'' the officer said Evans told him.
Fuhrmann told the Associated Press on Friday the charges against her are a
``misunderstanding from what the media is portraying it as'' but declined to
speak further.
Evans and his attorney Steve Weiner did not immediately return calls seeking
comment, but Evans apologized for the incident during a news conference in
Athens on Thursday and said he ``failed miserably.''
``My behavior and my actions are not indicative of what we teach our student
athletes,'' he said. ``My actions have put a black cloud over our storied
program.''
School president Michael Adams said in a statement Thursday he was extremely
disappointed, but will not decide on disciplinary measures until there is a
full review by the university staff and legal office. A UGA spokesman declined
to comment Friday on the allegations in the police report.
A bleary-eyed Evans told the officer he drank two vodka martinis at a
restaurant and another at a nearby bar, according to the report. The officer
noted that Evans had ``red, bloodshot, watery eyes and droopy eyelids'' and
that he fumbled through his cards and dropped some of the items before he
handed over his license.
``I feel pretty good,'' he told the officer, before laughing for no apparent
reason, according to the report. The trooper said Evans later told him: ``We go
through life and we all drink and jump in a car.''
Evans - a former Georgia football player - became head of the athletic
department in 2004, replacing Vince Dooley, who was forced to step aside after
a nasty spat with Adams. Dooley had been at the school for 40 years, including
25 years as athletic director.
Evans became the Southeastern Conference's first black athletic director and
immediately shook up the department. He bolstered the department's bottom line
but also reduced the number of associate and assistant athletics directors and
fired three of Dooley's longtime lieutenants.
He was the public face of the school's athletic department, and starred in a
taped message played at every home football game that urges fans not to drive
under the influence. ``If you drink and drive, you lose,'' he says.
Evans, who is set to appear in Atlanta Municipal Court on July 12, was arrested
minutes before a new five-year contract extension that raised his annual pay to
$550,000 was to take effect. By the time he was escorted to the Atlanta jail,
the officer said in the report, Evans began to ``cry uncontrollably.''
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