The 2023 offseason has seen a litany of Georgia Bulldogs football players pulled over or arrested for speeding. It’s gotten so bad that head coach Kirby Smart has had to speak about the issue to the team repeatedly.
But does Georgia have a “culture” of speeding. Linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson, who was arrested for speeding earlier this offseason, disagrees.
Speaking to the media this week, Dumas-Johnson dismissed the idea that there’s any sort of culture around speeding. He feels that the slew of incidents are just a result of bad choices and hopes that the team grows from them.
“[There’s] not no culture about no speeding, mine was before everything hit the Internet and stuff like that,” he said. “I definitely don’t think it’s a culture that we’ve created. Just some bad choices that we’re making right now and hopefully the team will get it together.”
Whether it’s a byproduct of a culture or poor decisions, the speeding at Georgia has to stop immediately. The school has already seen terrible tragedies befall it through student-athletes who have been speeding.
We can only hope that the public backlash serves as a wakeup call that results in everyone in the football program driving safer from now on.