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UGA Cracks Down on Tailgaters
The times, they are a changing for UGA tailgaters come the fall. WSB's Pete Combs reports on new rules for football fans during home games.
UGA President Michael Adams says it's not that he's out to spoil a good time. "We want the fans here, we want them to have a great time, we want them to support the team, we want them to tailgate," Adams said Thursday. "We just don't want them to destroy the campus in the process."
He was referring to a September 12, 2009 home game where tailgaters dumped about 70-tons of garbage on the North Campus defecated on the grounds and abandoned grills, tents, coolers and chairs by the truckload.
A committee of university administrators produced a set of rules on Thursday that ban tents, kegs, generators, televisions, amplified music, grills and cookers, tables longer than 4 feet and household furniture from North Campus.
University
Deep fryers and low country boils are banned, as are barbecue grills in the parking decks.
Corporate tailgating is also severely curtailed by the new rules.
No tailgate can have private security.
Professional bartenders are no longer allowed -- all tailgates must be self-serve.
Tailgates can not promote alcohol or tobacco products on campus.
Fences, gating, and other physical barriers limiting access are prohibited.
Corporations can no longer limit admission to their tailgate areas, nor can demand you wear wristbands, hand stamps and other methods that limit access to public property within a tailgate.
Sale of services or admission is prohibited.
There can be no product giveaways for promotional purposes.
There can be no DJ services on campus.
What others are saying
- JokeThis won't make uga tailgating a joke - it already was. People show up to campus just to get wasted and trash the place; most of them don't even have an inkling of attending the game. Maybe this will keep those people at home to get wasted and trash their own living rooms, and the true fans can attend the game without having to pick their way through dung heaps.
- UGA tailgateWish Adams had announced this sooner, I could have saved $2,000 "contribution" to buy tickets.
- annoyedI have lived in the suburbs of ATL since 1975...the UGA rednecks are getting worse, they drive me crazy. You can be a fan and still clean up after yourself. For heaven sake, get some class.
- I go to alot of games and the best part is the tailgating and fun before the games, You can cancel my ticket purchases Adams, I will just get with my Friends who will also cancel there ticket purchases and have a good time and watch the Dawgs on t.v. or listen to WSB Thank you
- Ridiculous!These rules are ridiculous!! No TV's or grilling on North campus? Not allowed to set up 3 hrs prior to a game, even a night game?? Good luck getting alumni support Adams.
- Tailgait BanIt just goes to show you how rude, vulgar and trashy UGA fans are.
- Don't get mad at the adminThe administration had no choice but to put these draconian rules in effect. If alumni had any part in the campus destruction, you must have majored in early childhood education. If non-alumni had any part, go back to Alabamastan and stay there.
- TailgatingMaybe Adams should visit Ole Miss or practically any other SEC school and learn how to manage the game day experience. Apparently this is outside his core competency.
The atmosphere around game day has been getting worse every year and this just puts the nail in the coffin.
What does banning low country boils, DJs and golf carts have to do with protecting the campus. The motive is clear,simply bring your money,dont stay to long and leave. We are officially the joke of tailgating in the SEC.
Everyone I speak to has nothing but negative comments about this guy,maybe it's time for a change. - racist against those who have necks that are redWe all know what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot.
- TailgateAt the game there will be no cheering, you can no longer wear team colors, no footballs in the north campus and fun is strictly prohibited. UGA dont forget these are the people who generate all the money you collect. i think there could some sort of compromise, higher ticket prices to cover clean up., A lot of people need work so the bigger the mess the more work to go around. Go Dawgs
- UGA Trash HeapI wonder what Jeff Foxworthy would say about this.
- Michael Adams sucks. I so wish they would FIRE his ass.
- UGA cracks downOne time with some plain clothes cops writing littering tickets would stop this. Is this too complicated for the UGA or local police to understand?
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Yeah, because a bunch of drunken rednecks classless enough to destroy their own campus are really gonna pay attention a littering ticket written by campus pd...