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Hah, I guess Lane Kiffin thought he’d let the situation cool a little bit before going after released UGA commit Dexter Moody.

The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Moody said he was invited to Tennessee’s Orange and White game on Saturday by the Volunteers. ”Me and my dad are planning on going up there,” Moody said. “They talked liked they were going to offer me a scholarship. I don’t know. I guess we’ll see. They just want to meet me in person and everything.”

At the time the thinking seemed to be that a guy released from one SEC school for a dust up with a teacher probably wouldn’t be offered a scholly from another SEC school.

But alas, this is the age of Kiffin! Really, isn’t he just conforming to Tennessee’s already subterranean standards?

Mr. Moody spices things up a little more.

“Coach Thompson said they need some linebackers really bad,” Moody said. “I’m definitely very interested in Tennessee. It wouldn’t be bad to go there and be able to play against Georgia every year. That would be something, taking out some of my feelings against the team that released me. I think it would be fun.”

A little sour grapes? It’s too bad Moody couldn’t walk the straight and narrow long enough to become a Dawg but it is starting to sound like he was just saving us some trouble later on.

Who knows? I hope he gets it back between the lines and has success against every team but Georgia… the team he most wants to be successful against.

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Dexter Moody has been released from his letter of intent to play football at The University of Georgia. Apparently Moody had a plan laid out for him by UGA and he veered way off track.

“I think there’s some disappointment there, but he’s a senior in high school and when they give you a plan to follow and you don’t follow it, you kind of reap what you sow,” said Turner, who said he has talked to Moody’s father.

In Moody’s words it was just a little altercation between he and a teacher.

“I got in a little trouble down here fussing with a chemistry teacher,” Moody said. “Me and him got in an argument. He didn’t write me up or anything, but one of our assistant coaches went back to the principal and told him.”

The most grating part of the whole mess for me is this quote from Moody.

“I’m not upset about it,” Moody said. “It ain’t no big deal really. It really wasn’t my favorite school. I was going because I had a teammate on the team that was going too. He encouraged me to go.”

Sounds like a little sour grapes and a little I’m trying to make my colossal f-up seem like no big thang.

Actually the worst part is probably where Moody will end up on Saturdays now that Georgia is out of the picture.

Moody also considered Florida and LSU.

D’oh. I guess LSU would be the less painful but Moody suiting up as a Gator would make any Dog’s stomach turn.

What did I just hear? Oh, that’s the sound of Lane Kiffin putting Moody on his speed dial.

LINKS:

• UGA releases LB signee Dexter Moody – AJC
• Football recruit Moody dropped after school tiff – Red & Black