Chron report AUSTIN — Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido has been sentenced to four days in jail on a drunken driving conviction. Garrido attorney Michael Burnett said his client was sentenced Thursday. Burnett said Garrido has two days' credit for time served and that Travis County officials will determine how the rest of the sentence is carried out. Burnett said Garrido will serve the rest of the sentence before Aug. 15. Garrido also was fined $500 and had his driver's license suspended for 90 days. Garrido was arrested in downtown Austin in January after a police officer noticed he was driving without his headlights on. He pleaded guilty two weeks later. don't really care, but i just wanted to get something started.
Yeah, because it's really a "pot shot" when the coach of a university's baseball team gets arrested for drunken driving. get a clue, brah
Is UT the filthiest athletics program in operation today? Can any school boast more arrests or run-ins with the law? How many schools would retain a coach that gets a DWI and serves time?
I dub you the king of the geeks. This incident with Augie is so outrageously bad. The fact that he still has a job with a state university is beyond my comprehension. It just goes to show that UT doesn't care one bit about anything except winning. No values, no morals, they'll bring in thugs and keep drunk drivers as their coach. This is a new low for UT.
The funny thing about all this is he can go in at like 11:30pm and get released at 12:30am and get credit for 2 days... Don't ask me how I know. DD
I know that little rule, too. Saved me $200 once. I love the moral high ground some love to scream from. I've never read the bible, but what's that saying about casting the first stone?
Comments like this really grind my gears. Obviously, the Augie situation is not a good one, and as a student I will admit I am disappointed in his actions. To bring the whole program down, however, is what irks me. I will be the first to admit that UT is (obviously) not the cleanest program in regards to arrests in the country, but until we sign a recruit who attacked his girlfriend with a screwdriver, or a convicted rapist we cannot even be considered as the worst in the country. You say the 'Horns bring in thugs, however none of the kids have criminal records when they sign. Then when they do mess up, the program deals with them accordingly. In the Sergio Kindle everyone was saying UT has "no values, no morals" because they don't punish their players. I proceeded to post Mack's punishment for every player that has gotten in trouble in the so called "thug years" of UT. The argument then moved to, "well, those guys are backups so it doesn't matter." So now it's the program's fault that the starters don't get in trouble? Face it... being in Texas causes all of us to hear about everything (good and bad) about the major university in Texas. While I wish that Augie had decided to take a cab that night, I do know that hardly anyone outside of Texas considers the program as dirty as you are guys are making it sound.
lol, baseballa, you've been wearing the burnt orange glasses to long. Read this from back in 2007 http://criminalathletes.blogspot.com/2007/09/tribute-to-texas-longhorns.html UT just doesn't care. Their name has been absolutely drug through the mud over the past few years due to the criminal activity going on in the athletic program. Maybe they weren't thugs coming in, but they're certainly becoming thugs once they arrive in Austin. Not sure which one is worse. Then this whole Augie mess just proves without a doubt that the university just doesn't give a dam. They just don't care.
Bigtexxx must be working really hard, and we should all commend him for that. After all, there's no way he would possibly only report on the Texas arrests each year, correct? I mean, if players at Florida or Tennessee or anywhere else were to get arrested, of course he would give them "equal airtime" and talk about them being the scourge of college athletics.... This is why, by deductive reasoning, I assume you've been working hard this summer. Because you didn't say a mother****ing thing when other schools have arrests. Nothing. So, congrats. Hope you are getting paid overtime. Sounds like things are looking up. In the words of Kanye, "this week mopping floors, next week it's the fries."
Here y'all go.....Because your favorite UT haters like to bring up stale news from 2 to 3 years ago and portray it as lack of institutional control. http://johnclay.bloginky.com/2009/06/04/florida-footballs-arrest-record-too-long-to-ignore/ 24 arrests in 4 years under Urban Meyer. But oh, Texas is the new Thug U.
Show me the data, brah. Show me the data where Florida and Tennessee have as many arrests as UT. And when you show it to me, also prove it me how that makes it ok. TIA
that's awesome. So let's just forget about UT's issues, because Florida is really bad, too. Sounds great. Nothing to see here, move along.
I will be the first to admit I probably do have burnt orange glasses on... what can I say, I love the University that I attend. However, I do not see how the link proves your point. What is the proper punishment for first time DUI? Should it be equal to that of aggrivated robbery? The blog only points out the difference in the punishment and not the difference in the crime. (Also, the blog negates point out that Tarell Brown was also arrested that season and suspended for the Ohio State game. While this only adds to the perception of UT as thugs, it goes against the Mack doesn't punish his players argument. Here is the one time that a starter was arrested with something other than a DUI, and Mack benched him for the most important game in Austin in recent memory.) On the other side of the spectrum, however, even bigtexxx has to admit that the leaders of UT athletics over the last few years (McCoy, Shipley, Cosby, Orakpo, Miller, Durant, Augustin) are as good as they come.
did ya forget Kindle? oh yeah, homeboy was just textin' when he ran into that building. lol. surely it wasn't another DUI for him
Nope, left him off on purpose. He's definitely off to a bad start for his first year as one of the team's leaders.
