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Tuesdays With Kirby: Head Bulldog Frustrated By Player Arrests, Taking Responsibility

If it’s Tuesday and the Georgia Bulldogs practiced then it’s time to hear from the top ‘Dawg himself. Welcome to Tuesday with Kirby.

The hot topic this afternoon was obviously the afternoon arrest of veteran defensive players Robert Beal and Brenton Cox on marijuana possession charges. Coach Smart sounds understandably frustrated by the situation. Yes, it’s marijuana and yes they’re college students and yes, we’ve made pretty clear in this space that those two mixing probably shouldn’t surprise or infuriate you.

But the fifth and sixth arrests in a month, during spring practice, should probably be cause for some of the veteran leaders Kirby has lauded this spring to consider how they might express that leadership a little more forcefully.