Suspended Players

In today’s world of you most win at all cost it was surprising to hear that University of Georgia suspended its leading scorer from last year for the season and two other players fifteen games and the other six games. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3081116 Senior Takais Brown the leading scorer from last year was only going to be suspended only nine games but because he broke athletic department polices he was dismissed from the team. The polices are about unexcused absences of classes and missed academic appointments. The reason that Georgia has this new policy is to increase their graduation rate. I was some what shocked when I read this because normally you don’t see a team suspend one its better players to improve their graduation rate. Also they will be without two other players Mike Mercer and Albert Jackson for the first part of the season for similar rules violation. The AD also said that the two suspend players that when they return after suspension will be academic eligible by the school, SEC and the NCAA. The coach Dennis Felton said that Takais will stay at the school to graduate, which he is set to do in the summer. I hope Takais stays at Georgia to finish up is degree it seems that there are a lot of people that want to help him out and to make sure that he does graduate on time. It’s nice to see that the school wants to help out a suspended player so much even though he will not help out the basketball team. This should be done at more colleges to help the athletes graduate on time even if it means that they can not play on the team.