Parent of Georgia Player Blames Recent Spat of Transfers on the Kids (not the system)

It's never a good sign when college players are leaving a program for another. Whether it's because they were booted off the team or they are leaving of their own accord it shows that something wasn't working right. More often than not we assume its the program; you know--because that's who the kid blames.

With all the transfers out of Georgia these days a lot of eyes on the Bulldog program. Eyes that one parent says should be looking inward--at the kids.

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Kevin Bailey, the dad to Bulldogs’ junior defensive lineman Sterling Bailey, recently gave an interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution where he pretty much put the fault where it belongs--on the kids.

In a nut shell what he said was that Tray Mathews and the other transfers were not appreciative of the opportunity they were given and took advantage of it--but in a more forceful manner:

“When I read some of the things said, it just made me sick to my stomach,” Bailey said. “That young man (Matthews) needs to realize who opened doors for him first....But the comments I read made me feel like they were putting down the University of Georgia, the system and the coaches....

“...For him to come out like that and make it seem like the University of Georgia had done him wrong, that’s what makes me so mad....They leave and transfer and get dismissed from the team and they blame it on the school system. It’s not the system; it’s the kids....

You definitely can't fault him for what he says. As true as it is the kids are not the only ones to blame--society as a whole is. With the way that we put kids up on a pedestal because of their athletic abilities we shouldn't be surprised that they don't feel accountable for their own actions.

 

So does that mean the kids are excused? Absolutely not. In the end every decision they make is their own. If they decide to take the easy way out and cheat on test, result to violence to resolve an issue, take drugs, steal--it's on them.

 

And no one else.
 

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