Good one. :-) Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Kelly <gatort...@aol.com> Sender: gatortalk@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 18:38:00 To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com<gatortalk@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com 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]
No...dog gone! Sent from my iPhone On Jul 4, 2010, at 3:04 PM, oli...@bobparks.com wrote: > Dang! > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > From: Woody Bass <gatorrr...@gmail.com> > Sender: gatortalk@googlegroups.com > Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 09:05:06 -0400 > To: <gatortalk@googlegroups.com> > ReplyTo: gatortalk@googlegroups.com > 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] > > According to WSB-TV'z Zach Klein: > > BREAKING.. Source close to the UGA athletic office tells me Damon Evans is > out as Georgia's AD. Official announcement will be Monday. > > > On Jul 3, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Shane Ford wrote: > >> Well, he does have personal experience with it now! Doesn't that count for >> some thing any more? :-) >> >> ---------- >> Sent from AT&T's Wireless network using Mobile Email >> >> ------Original Message------ >> From: <oli...@bobparks.com> >> To: "Gator Talk" <gatortalk@googlegroups.com> >> Date: Saturday, July 3, 2010 2:41:10 PM GMT+0000 >> 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] >> >> Ha ha ha. I still say keep him. How much more effective could his PSA >> warnings about drinking and driving be now? >> >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Woody Bass <gatorrr...@gmail.com> >> Sender: gatortalk@googlegroups.com >> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 10:03:08 >> To: <gatortalk@googlegroups.com> >> Reply-To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com >> 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] >> >> uhh.. actually she wasnt LOL >> >> >> On Jul 3, 2010, at 9:55 AM, oli...@bobparks.com wrote: >> >>> Well, at least she was wearing red panties. >>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry >>> >>> From: Woody Bass <gatorrr...@gmail.com> >>> Sender: gatortalk@googlegroups.com >>> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 08:31:00 -0400 >>> To: <gatortalk@googlegroups.com> >>> ReplyTo: gatortalk@googlegroups.com >>> 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] >>> >>> He's gone. And dont be surprised if you hear about his wife >>> suddenly filing for divorce either..... did you see the pic of the >>> tramp? The tramp who... >>> >>> "The trooper, who noted that Evans had a pair of red panties between >>> his legs, asked the athletic director "what her panties were doing >>> in his side of the seat. He stated, he took them off and I held >>> them because I was just trying to get her home.' " >>> >>> SERIOUSLY!?!?! How stupid can you be? >>> >>> Evans is gone. He may not even make it to Mid-July. But I am >>> already waiting to hear about all the hell the UGAly pres is gonna >>> get because he wouldnt renew Dooleys contract and replaced him with >>> Evans.. >>> >>> College football... always something to talk about. :) >>> >>> >>> On Jul 3, 2010, at 6:47 AM, <ke...@baldwinnc.com> >>> <ke...@baldwinnc.com> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 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. 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