Cuttin' Ties

UGA pulled a scholarship offer to Dexter Moody today. He was dropped because of an altercation he had a teacher and poor academic performance. Apparently he was on a bit of a short leash anyway, having been given certain expectation he needed to meet. According to his high school coach, "...he’s a senior in high school and when they give you a plan to follow and you don’t follow it, you kind of reap what you sow." Moody seems unfazed by the news:

“I’m not upset about it,” Moody said. “It ain’t no big deal really. It really
wasn’t my favorite school. I was going because I had a teammate on the team that
was going too. He encouraged me to go.”

As far as we know, this has not affected the other signee from ECI, RB Washaun Ealey. Honestly, if we weren't looking the other way on this, he probably wasn't that great of a player. I like the idea that we have high standards we're living up to, but, c'mon, this is SEC football. If he was good, we would have just talked about 'character building' and 'moral improvement' as we shipped him off to Hargrave to get eligible.

Moody's coach seems to think this will have little impact on the student's future, stating that he's sure other schools would come in with offers. Moody was an ESPN top-150 prospect who was also looking at LSU, Florida, Georgia Tech, SoCar.