Kirby Smart comments on ‘toxic environment’ claim made by Cade Mays’ lawyer
There’s been a lot of news in 2020 regarding offensive lineman Cade Mays, who transferred from Georgia to Tennessee earlier this year. And it doesn’t appear the saga is quite over just yet.
Mays was recently cleared to play immediately by the NCAA for the Vols in the 2020 season — still waiting on the SEC approval, which came after Mays’ lawyer, Gregory P. Isaacs, claimed that the lineman was in a “toxic environment” during his time with the Bulldogs. However, Mays isn’t yet allowed to play for Tennessee as the school is still waiting for the SEC to sign the waiver to let him get on the field.
When Georgia head coach Kirby Smart met with the media on Tuesday, he was asked about the lawyer’s “toxic environment” claim toward the program.
“Unfortunately, I’m not able to respond to that, so in due time that will play itself out,” Smart told the media. “But it’s not something I’m allowed to comment on.”
Mays, who is entering his junior season, played 25 games for Georgia over the past two years, making 18 starts. However, his time with the Bulldogs didn’t end on good terms as his family sued the school for an incident in which Mays’ father suffered a severed finger during a recruiting visit.
While Mays has now moved on to Tennessee, Georgia will look to keep moving on itself. The Bulldogs are set to open the 2020 season at Arkansas on Saturday at 4 p.m. ET on SEC Network.
So you felt the need to write a headline about kirbys comment that was a “no comment”. Lawyers are paid big bucks to embellish and many other things to win. This seems nothing more. I doubt there was a TOxic environment .
I think there may have been a toxic environment but I think that toxic environment exists all over College football because we have a system that creates it.
If Cade thinks he will arrive at UT as a savior and a King and be treated with deference and respect by the coaching staff whether he is playing well or not, he’s got a rude awakening. They will tear him down to build the best player possible out of him. It’s a demeaning and degrading existence where your flaws are magnified and your strengths are downplayed so that you never stop working and bettering yourself. Any program that does anything less isn’t trying to win.
I see SDS it at it again. They publish an article and then close the comments. The OtIs Reese article is prime example.nif they don’t want comments don’t publish the article.
They should have definitely opened up comments for that one. It’s not even politically related. Just good ole fashion Georgia bashing, that should be fair game, particularly after allowing comments on the Bleich article.
They are still doing it on other articles. It’s only political articles or articles that could creates “division” between fans. Like most media outlets, they are afraid of taking heat. Love to dish their opinion but won’t let the good people who read their articles comment with their opinion. Today’s world is full of soft men and women who either cry to get their way or blame other people to get their way. It’s either cry racism or whine to get immediate satisfaction so they can get what they want. Sure call out the NCAA, they suck with dealing with transfers and are inconsistent with their decisions but don’t blame head coaches and schools because you’re not getting your way. They don’t care what you think
We would keep comments open if commenters would not devolve into absurdity, racism, attacking others. Since you don’t see the comments we remove and moderate, you don’t really know what you’re talking about.
We’ll do our best to keep it relatively clean. This is the way it is. You don’t have to participate. If you do, and abide by the guidelines, we appreciate it.
Well that was an arrogant post. I remember one of your “writers” posting in the comment section that another poster should go away until his team became relevant again. What a professional Adam Spenser is by posting that. Your site posts articles that they apparently don’t know what they are talking about while forgetting such journalistic tenets like editing, spelling check or proper grammar.I will take your hypocritical advice and stop reading anything on this site. You should google the phrase, “customer service”.
I would love to see what absurdity and racist quotes this Kevin guy is talking about. Oh no, has ESPN bought out SDS and we did’t know about it?
They’re not all removed…SDS seems to be selective or slacking
Jake Rill…..Are you even a professional?
I think it’s safe to say Cade’s comments were meant to manipulate the NCAA and the SEC into an immediate waiver.
Out of the hundreds and hundreds of kids that Kirby has worked with over the years, Otis Reese’s comments are the first of that nature that I’m aware of. I choose not to believe those comments at this time.
I’m referring to the comments about Kirby not the Po Po.
Kirby dumb dog is the manipulator. A real piece of work. Fortunately the truth is out so no more top recruiting class. You lost your opportunity to win a NC. Bark goodbye poodle.
The headline is an outright falsehood, unless you want a Clinton-esque argument over what the definition of “comments” is. Tomfoolery at best. Combined with the recent overrun of troll/trolls posting only political nonsense complete with racial epithets with impunity here, SDS is either slacking or just doesn’t have a defined standard. Seriously, I’ve been here less than a year – is this different than usual, or is it just an election year?
As for Kirby – whether it’s true or not – he’s got problems if this keeps up, the list is growing…
Disgruntled former employees aren’t the greatest source of information when misinformation can get them what they want. Kirby isn’t signing off on their waivers, nor does he owe them that
Yeah seems that’s it, although several reports along the same lines make it somewhat suspicious. I understand not signing a waiver for a scholarship athlete, but I also understand signing it.
Just ask Justin Fields how toxic it is down there.
So bad he called his dad and asked him to bring him back.
And his sister still goes there
You coward have now posted ANOTHER inflammatory b.s. “story,” this time coming from ambulance chasing lawyer Tom Mars slandering Kirby Smart and not allowing comments.
Grow a set, SDS. If you’re not gonna allow comments, don’t publish.
“Georgia’s staff literally saves lives.
Floriduh’s staff ruins groins.
All CFB recruits, save your groins and maybe your life, avoid Sideshow Dan’s Clown Show Program and come to Athens!”
That didn’t age well did it? LMAO.
Oh the irony and hypocrisy of UGA trolls
You know it.. You can’t believe anything negative said about UGA but if it’s about someone else it’s gospel…
LOL
Bama will role over you, college of poodles is going down!
I thought GA was dependent on a transfer quarterback this year. Must have been mistaken.
I call BS on the whole story. I think they are SJW and it’s just unbelievable.
Go Gators
Yeah yeah…Kirby dumb dog finally the truth comes out. No more top recruiting class for poodles. Now everyone knows not only he can’t develope players, he mistreated and back stabbed many of them. Time to accept the fact that dog cage college will never ever win another NC. You will always be looking and someone else’s rear end and sniff, like a good dog!
The Otis Reese situation stinks. I hate that the NCAA has no hardened rules on transfers. Personally I think if you don’t want to play you should be allowed to transfer no questions asked. That all being said some of Reese’s story is very strange. If he was “mistreated” by the police, I’m not really sure what he wants Kirby to do about it. The racist events he encountered on campus are unfortunate. I don’t quite understand what he thinks will be different in Mississippi though. As for Kirby “manipulating him to play” the day after he requested to transfer.. c’mon. If a kid comes and says he wants to transfer mid season and the coach says “you should try to fulfill your commitment” and/or “don’t let your teammates down” doesn’t sound like “manipulating”. I think that is probably a standard response to a kid wanting to leave mid season. Coaches, schools, conferences have blocked transfers for years. Only recently has this become a “right” that they be allowed to play immediately. Since it looks like it comes down to a coin flip from the NCAA on whether or not a kid gets approved I see this as a NCAA problem.
P.S. The fake UGA fan accounts on this comment section are pathetic.
I think we see this about the same way. Kirby Smart did his job. the NCAA wants him to do their job too.
Why is it up to Kirby Smart to decide the eligibility of players who have chosen to play at other schools? Since when should a football coach, who will have implicit bias in the decision, be forced to make a choice instead of the governing body being paid millions of dollars to do so? The NCAA seems to have a different set of rules in place for QBs. But in cases like these, the NCAA says, well Kirby didn’t give us his rubber stamp so no you can’t play. of course these guys are going to turn right around and try to trash Kirby then. The NCAA has the power to put a one-time, penalty-free transfer system in place and then you wouldn’t have this issue of players who are passed up by a freshman on the 2 deep, or legacy players wanting to play where their father was a captain an their brother is committed, having to trash their former coach to garner support for their own personal cause.
Do I think their claims are are a bit embellished? Maybe. Do I think their claims are entirely false? No. I think there is some truth in there and I think it’s completely reasonable to think that a college football program has a toxic culture. They all do. It’s an iron sharpens iron system. It’s hard. it’s cut-throat and it comes from all directions. It’s survival. It’s not for the mentally weak. It’s set up to be toxic because whet you get out of it is the best possible football player you can. And sometimes in order to do that, you have to have teenagers, beating each other down and competing and being degraded to a point of losing a sense of self to replace it with a sense of team. And you learn that coaches aren’t your friends because they are making decisions to benefit and prolong their livelihood and they will do that at the expense of yours every time. And it’s not an issue just at UGA. Case will find that same environment at UT and Otis will find the same issues he faced at UGA at Ole Miss, other than that he might be starting there.
Kirby Smart is not the head of the NCAA. He is not in charge of eligibility for players not at his program, nor should he be. The anger from these players should be directed at the do-nothing NCAA and frankly UGA fans should be directing their anger at the NCAA as well, not these players who are desperate to play. Kirby Smart is also not the chief of police in Athens. he can’t change policy on the policing there, and given that it’s hurt his team and his players, I’m sure if he could, he would. Also, contradictory to what Otis Claims, Kirby did address the racist issues on campus, but only within his role as a football coach.
It’s not. The SEC has a rule the forbids immediate eligibility for non-grad transfers. Period.
Right but this is being put in the light of, “the only reason I’m not eligible is because Kirby hasn’t supported me in giving the SEC/NCAA his blessing”. The NCAA could make a rule that overrides antiquated conference rules. The SEC has also given waivers to that rule in the past. The system is a mess. If Otis wants to be upset at someone, the last person he should point a finger at is Kirby Smart. It isn’t Kirby’s job. He’s mad at the wrong people.
Because the SEC and Kirby have to approve the eligibility request as well. Not just the NCAA.
Kirby doesn’t have to approve it, he can get it without if they think it’s warranted which is why he’s making this play. I just think that it’s dumb for the conferences to throw the previous coaches under the bus. I thought it was stupid when Nick Saban got thrown under the bus for the Maurice Smith incident. That wasn’t fair to him. The NCAA/SEC should be able to make that ruling without having Kirby Smart, Nick Saban, Dan Mullen, or anyone else from the previous program decide it or not. The fact that they haven’t heard from the NCAA in Otis Reese’s case other than it would seem just the info that Kirby Smart or UGA didn’t rubber stamp it, seems like an indictment on the NCAA to me.
Well argued MattyJ won me over
What he is, is a vengeful rear sniffing poodle. Vengeful and now the recruits know it. No more #1 classes for British dog U. Downhill from now on. You didnt get it done when you had a chance. It is over for underachiever georgia college. BAMA roles over you poodles.
Matty you described Marine boot camp. Tear you down, stress you out, rebuild. I’m not sure that is right analogy for athletes but I get where you are coming from.
It’s what these kids go through. It’s not summer camp. The best coaches back in the day were former military men because they ran their programs like a drill sergeant. And these days you don’t see as many former military running programs but the programs and techniques they put in place still remain and some have even advanced. And it’s not as serious as war but these players are shaped to get peak performance as pawns for the generals who put them in position to accomplish dominance over their fellow man.
The English language is very hard. I guess that if you are literal than Kirby did respond by saying he couldn’t respond. Rill is trying to take the click bait award with this garbage.
Depends on what the definition of “is,” is…
Turd sniffing kirby dumb dog has shown her true colors. You are doomed.