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GA S Tray Matthews (Georgia Signee; transfer to Auburn)

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Newnan (GA) HS

Height: 6-foot-1
Weight: 191 lbs

247 $ - Matthews one to watch for 2013

5/18

From the FSU site...says Arkansas, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Southern Miss and Virginia Tech have offered and Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Florida State and Ohio State are showing interest.

Rivals $ - Offers are coming in for this rising junior

5/18

From the UGA site...his coach says Mississippi State, Virginia Tech, Arkansas, North Carolina,and Southern Miss have offered...and Tray says his parents have been told by Ohio State, Tennessee, Florida State, Georgia, Alabama and Auburn that he will have an offer.
 
http://ugasports.blog.ajc.com/2014/06/09/tray-matthews-dismissal-not-unexpected-probably-needed/


Trey was dismissed from the team last week, in an immediate decision by CMR.
Matthews as you might remember was one of the three UGA players caught "double dipping" by directly depositing their stipend from the University in addition to cashing it at a bank.

In addition to missing a significant portion of Spring practice, the straw that broke the camels back was an altercation between himself and a professor in one of his classes.

Per UGA's AJC sports blogger:

"And my reaction to the Matthews development?
Total and complete expectation. This wasn’t an “if” situation, this was a “when” deal. It was just a matter of time before Matthews finally tripped and fell face-first over UGA’s rules and regulations. You could see it coming from miles away.


Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think Matthews is a bad kid. In my brief experiences with him over the last year, I found him to be very upbeat and gregarious and fairly forthright when it came to post-practice and postgame exchanges with media. But he had an other side off the field that became evident, one that I’ve seen way too many times over the many years I’ve covered college football.


He was a goof-off, a cut-up, a “knucklehead,” coaches call them. That’s not to say dumb. He just always seemed to be more interested in having a good time and enjoying the social side of college life than he did about the football and academic element of Division I college athletics. And it was always getting him into trouble, from dancing down the hallways of the team hotel after midnight before games to girlfriend drama to classroom misbehavior."


Dismissal article and quotes here: http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/tray-matthews-dismissed-from-uga-team/ngDGw/

Money quotes on Matthews from CMR: "In an unusually strong statement announcing Matthews’ dismissal, Georgia coach Mark Richt said: “We are trying to make room for guys who want to do things right.”


Given his arrest, dismissal and lackadaisical attitude to his studies, I'm assuming an Auburn offer is pending.
 
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UGA (and CMR) has been pretty progressive in terms of the schools that he allows kids who want to leave the program to transfer too.
"Hey, if they don't want to be here (or if they deserve a dismissal) why stop them from playing elsewhere? Maybe it just wasn't a good fit"

That stuff happens, I get it. But it's bullshit that Auburn basically gets National Signing Day version 2.0 every time any kid gets kicked outta school.

Cam
Nick Marshall
Tray

All 4 start players, all signed after expulsion.
This is absurd.
 
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