How's the Gators for Evans club incorporation coming along? A. Leon Polhill, Gator "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know." - Mark Twain
________________________________ From: "oli...@bobparks.com" oli...@bobparks.com To: Gator Talk <gatortalk@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sat, July 3, 2010 8:10:47 AM Subject: Re: [gatortalk] RE: [gatornews] [SUN / A.P.]: 7/2 15:43 --- Police report: UGA AD urged officer not to arrest [A.P. / GREG BLUESTEIN] I say keep him. And, bring back Ray Goff too!!! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ________________________________ From: <ke...@baldwinnc.com> Sender: gatortalk@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:47:46 -0700 To: gatortalk googlegroups<Gatortalk@googlegroups.com> ReplyTo: gatortalk@googlegroups.com Subject: [gatortalk] RE: [gatornews] [SUN / A.P.]: 7/2 15:43 --- Police report: UGA AD urged officer not to arrest [A.P. / GREG BLUESTEIN] IS there anyone that thinks Evans should NOT be fired? -------- Original Message -------- >Subject: [gatornews] [SUN / A.P.]: 7/2 15:43 --- Police report: >UGA AD urged officer not to arrest [A.P. / GREG BLUESTEIN] >From: "Shane Ford" <goufgat...@bellsouth.net> >Date: Fri, July 02, 2010 10:42 pm >To: "GATORNEWS" <gatorn...@googlegroups.com> > > >Police report: UGA AD urged officer not to arrestBy 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.''-- >GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! >1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions >2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions >2008 National Football Champions | >Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), >Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
