gamecock QB arrested in 5 points..again

5 star this time. way to go hippie

USC’s Garcia arrested after party

ALVIN S. GLENN DETENTION CENTER
Stephen Glenn GarciaNewly recruited USC back-up quarterback Stephen Garcia was arrested at 12:40 a.m. this morning in Five Points on charges of failure to stop on police command and drunkeness, according to a Columbia Police Department incident report.
The touted back-up to USC quarterback Blake Mitchell arrived in Columbia and started classes one month ago.

A “concerned citizen” alerted an officer that Garcia was involved in an altercation behind the Knock Knock Club on Harden Street, where he had been attending a private party, the report said.

According to the report:

The officer approached Garcia but the 19-year-old Florida native quickly walked away. The officer asked him to stop, but Garcia ran and tried to hide in the alley.

When the officer caught up to him, Garcia turned toward the officer “in a threatening manner,” and the officer immediately “engaged his baton.” The officer did not need to use his baton to complete the arrest.

Garcia tried to zip up his pants and fix his belt, and he smelled of alcohol.

“He was unsteady on his feet and had slurred speech,” the report said.

Garcia was arrested and taken to the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. The report said that Garcia admitted to the officer that he was aware he ran from an officer who was requiring him to stop.

He is still at the detention center awaiting a 3 p.m. bond hearing.

Garcia is considered the highest-profile player recruited by coach Steve Spurrier during Spurrier’s two-year tenure. The seventh-ranked quarterback prospect at Tampa’s Thomas Jefferson High School, he concluded his prep career ranking third in Florida history in passing yards, sixth in touchdowns, fourth in pass attempts and tied for third in completions.

Garcia started classes at USC Jan. 16 after announcing in December his commitment to the Gamecocks. At that time, Garcia was a high school senior and said he intended to graduate early so he could be in Columbia to get ready for the 2007 season.

It’s the second time a USC quarterback has tangled with the law in less than six months. USC quarterback Blake Mitchell was arrested Sept. 13 after allegedly punching a bouncer at a Five Points bar, but the charge was later dropped.

 

Good God, it's a Tanneyhill throwback

 

I have talked with an attorney who used to be a part of the USC legal team. He told me and I quote, " The fucking football team is a gang of thugs" This was several years ago. Happens in a lot of places, not just USC.

:newsmile26:

 

WTF is this kids problem?

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Garcia jailed briefly on vandalism charge
The USC freshman spends four hours in jail after allegedly keying a professor’s car
By JOSEPH PERSON
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For the second time in three weeks, Stephen Garcia spent part of a Saturday in jail.

The heralded South Carolina quarterback was arrested Saturday and charged with vandalizing the car of a USC professor that was parked on campus Thursday afternoon.

The arrest came two weeks after Garcia was charged with drunkenness and failure to stop on a police command following an altercation outside of the Knock Knock Club in Five Points early on Feb. 17.

Garcia, a freshman from Lutz, Fla., is scheduled to appear at Columbia Municipal Court on Wednesday on the initial charges.

Neal Lourie, Garcia’s attorney, said he was uncertain whether the latest arrest would jeopardize his client’s chances of getting into an alcohol diversion program on last month’s charges.

“That will be up to the city and/or the solicitor’s office,” Lourie said.

Garcia’s court date was set for March 14 on the charge of malicious injury to personal property — a misdemeanor because the damage to the car was less than $1,000. Police said alcohol was not involved in this weekend’s arrest.

Garcia turned himself in to authorities around noon Saturday. Wearing a T-shirt, shorts and sandals to the afternoon bond hearing, Garcia — with his long, brown hair pulled back in a ponytail — told Judge Carlton Bagby that he had no prior convictions.

Garcia was released on a personal recognizance bond after spending about four hours in jail. Bagby ordered Garcia to stay away from the victim, Adam Biggs, a 34-year-old, visiting professor from Claflin University.

Biggs, who was out of town and did not attend the hearing, could not be reached for comment.

Lourie said Garcia would not speak to reporters.

“Mr. Garcia is a teenager, just graduated high school three months ago,” Lourie said. “And just up until recently, had never ever been in any trouble.”

Gary Garcia, who arrived in Columbia with his wife Saturday evening, said his son’s recent actions are out of character for a person who graduated a semester early from high school with a 3.65 GPA and a clean record.

“This is just so uncharacteristic that we don’t even really know what we’re dealing with,” Gary Garcia said. “We’re just here as parents, supporting our son.”

Under USC athletic department policy, Garcia will be suspended indefinitely and will not be allowed to participate in team activities, media relations director Steve Fink said.

Garcia initially told Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier that he had been falsely accused. In a statement released Saturday, Spurrier he would make a decision on Garcia after the legal system had “run its course.”

Garcia, who enrolled at USC in January, was suspended for four days following his February arrest. After lifting Garcia’s suspension, Spurrier said he hoped Garcia had learned his lesson.

But a week after Garcia returned to the team, Biggs told police that he saw the 19-year-old use a key to scratch the right side of his 2007 Toyota Corolla, causing $804.50 in damages. The car was parked near the Thomas Cooper Library on Greene Street.

According to the incident report, Biggs confronted Garcia after seeing him scratch the car “from the side rear almost to the front of the automobile,” leading to a verbal confrontation. After Garcia identified himself, Biggs told him he was going to call the police. Garcia then offered to pay Biggs $500 for the damages.

Gary Garcia said he is confident his son can overcome his rocky start to college.

“He’s a great young man,” he said. “He’s made a couple of mistakes. Like everybody else, it’s not the mistakes; it’s what you learn from them.”

 

This guy could ruin his career before it's even started. Apparently he swore to Spurrier that he didn't do it, and Spurrier took his side in the press. Then Garcia admitted it...He is DEEP in the doghouse and Spring practice hasn't even started.

Strange, he graduated with a 3.65 GPA. Even graduated a semester early. Both brothers went to Ivy League schools on academic scholarships.

This kid needs his ass kicked IMO...or he's going to find himself out of school.

 

Referee: Son, were outside of the pocket when you threw that ball?

Dumbass: No sir, I was between the tackles.

Ref: 5 yards and loss of down.

DON'T ADMIT IT, dumbfuck.

 

yep, he got suspended for the spring semester. that is why he is there early in the first place. at least the cocks have blake mitchell(cant believe I typed that) and smelley. could you imagine if that was willy korn who did all this stuff.

 

Korn is too smart to be that stupid, which is also the reason he isn't a gamecock.

 

I'm normally not here in this "section" of TBR--I'm usually over on the Panther board bothering people there and I wandered over here and saw this thread. I wanted to post this for y'all from the State newspaper:

Posted on Wed, Mar. 07, 2007email thisprint this
Grown up too fast
By RON MORRIS
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MY IMPRESSIONS OF Stephen Garcia remain vivid. Honest. Charming. Bright. Great sense of humor. Well-grounded. Mature beyond his 19 years.

Now we learn that Garcia is not the man-child portrayed by the media, a myth perpetuated by Garcia with his bold and brash ways. Garcia, we now know, is a kid after all.

As much as we wanted to believe Garcia was college football’s next Joe Namath or the next Steve Spurrier, a quarterback who could back his bravado off the field with spectacular results on the field, what we have is a kid ill-prepared to swim in the treacherous waters that college athletics present these days.

There is no excusing his recent behavior. The charges of public drunkenness and failure to stop on police command are misdemeanors. Still, we expect high-profile athletes to have better judgment and not put themselves in such positions. Using a key to scratch someone’s car? Again, a misdemeanor. Again, we expected more.

Therein lies the rub. We expect our athletes, at whatever age, to be superstars in every aspect of their lives. It is where we are in society. We build up our athletes to the point where they can only let us down.

Meet Stephen Garcia, Spurrier’s next great quarterback one day and a thug who does not know right from wrong the next.

Since his sophomore year at Jefferson High in Tampa, Fla., Garcia has been touted as one of the nation’s best college quarterback prospects. The attention on him mounted during his junior year as colleges from coast to coast began courting his services.

Then, as is the case with top players across the country, the national notice for Garcia last football season grew exponentially. An Internet search for his name finds Garcia to be as popular as some of our lesser-known 2008 presidential candidates.

When we learned that South Carolina was Garcia’s likely choice, Columbia-area TV stations flocked to Tampa to begin introducing the Gamecocks’ future star to his soon-to-be adoring public. Since signing with USC in October, his photograph has appeared more times on the front page of The State than George Bush.

Garcia played to the crowd, and who could blame him? He has spent the past two years shaping an image of a free spirit, a free thinker whose reckless regard for social mores made him that much more intriguing.

His cell phone greeting was the opening monologue from the movie “Troy.” Garcia was so enamored by the movie and its hero, Achilles, that he let his hair grow to shoulder length over the past two years. To walk from his high school to the nearby football locker rooms, Garcia sometimes removed his shirt for everyone to see his Greek god-like physique.

“I don’t want them going straight down the line,” said his father, Gary, of his four children. “I want them bouncing off the edges a little bit. I think it makes for a much more enjoyable life.”

It is difficult to blame the parents for Garcia’s recent escapades. He, no doubt, was reared in the same manner as his two older brothers, who are Harvard graduates. The more likely culprit is an athletic society in which we shower our competitors with too much undo praise at an early age, and we fail to allow kids to grow up. The latter starts at the lowest levels of athletic competition, in which Little League dads insist their “future star” skip T-ball and jump to coaches’ pitch.

Now, the latest trend is for high school athletes to forgo their final semester of high school so they can get acclimated to college football. Garcia skipped his final semester of high school to begin attending USC in January. The primary reason? So he could participate in spring football practice.

In the wake of the Garcia saga, USC and other schools should reconsider this practice. Garcia might have been fully prepared to begin taking snaps on the football field. Clearly, he was not prepared socially for being away from home for the first time.

Garcia still should be a student at Jefferson High, where he could participate in all the normal social activities of a high school senior. He still should be growing up with his high school buddies, and he could make mistakes and learn from them without seeing his picture splattered on the front page of the local newspaper.

Spurrier announced Tuesday that Garcia has been suspended from the USC team. He will not be allowed to participate in offseason conditioning drills with the team or in spring football practices.

We also should trust that the school will provide Garcia with counseling to work his way through his problems. At the same time, Garcia can go about reshaping his image.

He took the first step in that direction by making a public apology on Monday. He also cut his hair, which on the surface seems irrelevant but in the long run will help take him underground around Columbia. With cropped hair, Garcia likely will be less recognizable in public.

His adoring public can help as well by recognizing Garcia is not likely to take his first snap under center in a USC game for another 18 months, if then. With Blake Mitchell returning as Spurrier’s starting quarterback and Chris Smelley serving as an able backup, Garcia is headed for a redshirt season.

That gives Garcia until September of 2008 to grow up. It also gives USC fans and the media 18 months to give talk about him a rest. He is, after all, still a kid, an immature one at that.

 

I don't think Korn will really start this year anyways. He's a freshman that had bad showings against the "tougher" competition. He'll need a year to adjust to the speed of the game. Hech, the Clemson COACHES have said that. Only the Tiger fans think he'll come in this season and rule the ACC.