This isn’t the Georgia Bulldogs: An apology to Vols, Pat Summit family

Georgia Bulldog fans are usually some of the nicest people in the SEC. However, this guy disrespected the Pat Summitt statue, and that’s not how Georgia fans carry themselves.

First off, from all of the Georgia Bulldogs fans, we’re sorry for this so-called Dawg fan and how he disrespected the Pat Summitt monument.

Regardless of who you love in the sports world, you don’t disrespect Pat Summitt.

Summitt was the head coach for the Tennessee women’s basketball team from 1974-2012. She finished her coaching career with a 1,098-208 record, eight NCAA titles, won the regular season SEC title 16 times and won the SEC tournament 16 times as well.

She was an eight-time SEC Coach of the Year, a seven-time NCAA Coach of the Year and was the Naismith Coach of the Century in 2000.

There wasn’t much Summitt didn’t accomplish at the University of Tennessee.

Summitt was a legend who passed way too soon at 64 on June 28, 2016. Tennessee honored her in Nov. 2013, with a statue right across from Thompson-Boling Arena.

She passed away from early onset dementia in the form of Alzheimer’s after five years of battling the disease.

Summitt was a legend, still is a legend and anyone who disrespects her isn’t a true college athletics fan. She was one of the greatest to ever coach and even a better person.

The video surfaced from Karina, @karinasophia12, Twitter account. While the video isn’t directly from Twitter, it seems like it came from Facebook.

So I did a little more digging and found that Robert Dula originally posted the video on a Facebook group, SEC Throwdown, a closed group where fans can smack talk and interact with each other.

While I cannot say that this type of stuff doesn’t happen on the group, this act is by far one of the most disrespectful things you can do.

The video above isn’t there anymore, but there is another with him and the Smokey statue, still being quite disrespectful.

*Please be advised at the cussing in the videos*

Vol fans and other SEC fans alike, this is not how Georgia Bulldog fans act. It’s one thing to have harmless trash talk on Twitter and other social media platforms, but to publically disrespect someone deceased is a line that you don’t cross.

However, what gets me the most is when he asks Summitt’s statue if she remembers her wins. First off, she died from a nasty disease that takes away her memories, and it’s sad to watch someone go through this. I know first hand because my great-grandfather went through the same illness.

Second, I don’t care if I graduated from Georgia got my degree from the Henry Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication or if I graduated from another college, you do not disrespect another school’s legend. It’s tasteless, and Georgia fans that I know are not this tacky.

So Tennessee fans, please know that Dula is a rare form of a fan. I won’t even call him a fan because he disgraced the G, he humiliated himself on social media, he doesn’t know what it means to wear the red and black, and I know Georgia fans do not accept him.

In my opinion, I wouldn’t let that guy on campus in Athens, but I’m not in charge.

Georgia fans are some of the most welcoming fans that love to have a good time on any given Saturday between the hedges. I do not apologize for Dula because I believe he should publically apologize for what he did.

I’m here to apologize from the Bulldog Nation that we still have rude and inconsiderate fans that claim my school and team.

“The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear,” Summitt said. ” In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.”

People who love their teams are loyal to them, and I know I value what Georgia gave me and know so many Tennessee fans appreciate what Summitt and other Vol teams gave to them.

So have a good time, be kind, talk a little trash, but the most important thing of all that fans can do when visiting another team’s turf, BE RESPECTFUL.

Tennessee players, coaches, fans, and anyone who claims the Volunteers, Dawn of the Dawg and every other Georgia fan have one thing to say to you.

“We Back, Pat!”