This takes the cake...
<div class="hd"><p class="date">Mon Apr 18 09:49am EDT</p><h2 class="title">Georgia recruits charged as Georgia locker room thieves</h2> <p class="byline">By <span><span>Matt Hinton</span></span></p>
</div>
Pretend
for a moment —and for most readers, this will be a fantastical leap, I
know —but pretend for a moment that you're one of the top
up-and-coming football recruits in the country. You've already received
offers from nearly every major school in the region before the end of
your junior year in high school, and a few from farther away. You've
already watched several high-profile teammates go through the recruiting
process and sign with big schools. Really, how many ways are there for
you to actively screw this up?</p>
Of course, there's always the grades. That's so cliché, though, isn't
it? Anybody can flunk a few tests. No, Georgia cornerback recruit Deion
Bonner set the bar just a little higher, according to campus police,
who have charged Bonner with stealing right out of would-be future teammates' lockers during an unofficial recruiting trip:</p>
And thus does Georgia stake its claim as the only SEC school where
recruits felt compelled to taking "illegal benefits" into their own
hands. Not surprisingly, Facebook was "a big help" in bringing the culprits to justice.<a rel="nofollow" name="remaining-content"></a></p>
Assuming the charges stand, it's a good bet that Bonner's finished as
a Bulldog recruit, though he's the kind of player for whom much —
including a misdemeanor or two — is usually forgiven. But Georgia head
coach Mark Richt (pictured above) can't be pleased with this one. Rivals
lists him as one of its top-250 prospects to watch in its earliest ranking of the class of 2012, and he was one of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's "Tentative Top 10" recruits in the state; he already holds official offers from Alabama, Auburn, Florida State, Georgia, Miami and USC, for starters.</p>
</p>
The non-anonymous teammate who was arrested with Bonner (pictured
here), Marquise Hawkins, isn't considered a major recruit, but just
about all of the others seem to be: Marquise's twin brother, Marqui
Hawkins, is the starting quarterback at Carver High and considered a
solid prospect in the class of 2013, as are at least three of Bonner's
senior classmates this fall. Four Carver stars signed with SEC schools
in February, including the headliner of Georgia's hyped instate haul,
five-star tailback Isaiah Crowell. Carver's sent at least three players
on to Division I scholarships every year since 2009, and they keep in touch.</p>
So here's guessing you haven't heard the last of Deion Bonner, star
recruit. As a Georgia recruit? The reception awaiting him would probably
be a little chilly for that. But if he can play, physically and legally
speaking, someone will let him play.</p>
<div class="hd"><p class="date">Mon Apr 18 09:49am EDT</p><h2 class="title">Georgia recruits charged as Georgia locker room thieves</h2> <p class="byline">By <span><span>Matt Hinton</span></span></p>
</div>
for a moment —and for most readers, this will be a fantastical leap, I
know —but pretend for a moment that you're one of the top
up-and-coming football recruits in the country. You've already received
offers from nearly every major school in the region before the end of
your junior year in high school, and a few from farther away. You've
already watched several high-profile teammates go through the recruiting
process and sign with big schools. Really, how many ways are there for
you to actively screw this up?</p>
Of course, there's always the grades. That's so cliché, though, isn't
it? Anybody can flunk a few tests. No, Georgia cornerback recruit Deion
Bonner set the bar just a little higher, according to campus police,
who have charged Bonner with stealing right out of would-be future teammates' lockers during an unofficial recruiting trip:</p>
And thus does Georgia stake its claim as the only SEC school where
recruits felt compelled to taking "illegal benefits" into their own
hands. Not surprisingly, Facebook was "a big help" in bringing the culprits to justice.<a rel="nofollow" name="remaining-content"></a></p>
Assuming the charges stand, it's a good bet that Bonner's finished as
a Bulldog recruit, though he's the kind of player for whom much —
including a misdemeanor or two — is usually forgiven. But Georgia head
coach Mark Richt (pictured above) can't be pleased with this one. Rivals
lists him as one of its top-250 prospects to watch in its earliest ranking of the class of 2012, and he was one of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's "Tentative Top 10" recruits in the state; he already holds official offers from Alabama, Auburn, Florida State, Georgia, Miami and USC, for starters.</p>
The non-anonymous teammate who was arrested with Bonner (pictured
here), Marquise Hawkins, isn't considered a major recruit, but just
about all of the others seem to be: Marquise's twin brother, Marqui
Hawkins, is the starting quarterback at Carver High and considered a
solid prospect in the class of 2013, as are at least three of Bonner's
senior classmates this fall. Four Carver stars signed with SEC schools
in February, including the headliner of Georgia's hyped instate haul,
five-star tailback Isaiah Crowell. Carver's sent at least three players
on to Division I scholarships every year since 2009, and they keep in touch.</p>
So here's guessing you haven't heard the last of Deion Bonner, star
recruit. As a Georgia recruit? The reception awaiting him would probably
be a little chilly for that. But if he can play, physically and legally
speaking, someone will let him play.</p>
