Posted on 05/10/2023 8:40:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
"Unfortunately, the date suggested is not feasible given the student-athlete calendar and time of year."
The Georgia Bulldogs once again will not be coming to the White House to celebrate a national championship. The team announced Tuesday that they are declining President Joe Biden’s invitation to attend “College Athlete Day” scheduled for June 12.
An athletic department spokesman told Dawg Nation, “The University of Georgia first received on May 3 an invitation for the Bulldog football team to visit the White House on June 12. Unfortunately, the date suggested is not feasible given the student-athlete calendar and time of year. However, we are appreciative of the invitation and look forward to other opportunities for Georgia teams moving forward."
The Bulldogs didn’t attend last year either after winning its first of back-to-back titles. In January, Georgia defeated TCU, 65-7, to win its second straight championship.
There had previously been complaints that the team had not been invited sooner. A bipartisan group of Georgia’s congressional delegation wrote to the White House in January, “It is our hope that this repeat championship team can join the many teams prior that have been honored by the President.”
A Biden administration official in January said the White House “looks forward to welcoming” Georgia, but the invitation did not arrive until last week.
The White House is fresh off another sports controversy during which first lady Jill Biden suggested inviting Iowa’s women’s basketball team which had finished behind LSU in the national championship last month.
The first lady said after watching the game, “I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do. So, we hope LSU will come. But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.”
LSU star Angel Reese slammed the first lady’s plan saying, “If we were to lose, we would not be getting invited to the White House. Remember she made a comment about how both teams should be invited because of sportsmanship. I’m like, ‘Are you saying that because of what I did?’
“Stuff like that bothers me because you are a woman at the end of the day, white, black, Mexican, it doesn’t matter. You’re supposed to be standing behind us before anything.”
This story will never see the light of day in the corrupt legacy media. When teams turned down Trump’s invitations they raced their reporters to do interviews with coaches and players.
Yep, the corrupt media is evil. Hopefully a few hundred million people will learn how to watch Tucker on twitter :)
FJB
I take UGA at their word that the White House slow walked their invite.
The team is too busy getting drunk
The summary doesn’t have context for the Jill vs LSU controversy. It seems LSU player Angel, a black woman, taunted her opponent and Jill apparently wanted the other team at the White House out of sportsmanship. The LSU player took it as a racial comment by “Dr Jill.” It’s the Bidens, I can’t blame her. She said she’ll visit the Obama’s instead and chat with Michelle. She rejected Jill’s apology. Love it.
GO DAWGS!
Hopefully this may begin the end of college teams going to the White House. As far as I’m concerned all but about a dozen colleges and universities should be stripped of any federal funding, grants, or tax-deductibility for their anti-American political activity anyway. This is a bit of a surprise since the University of Georgia did nothing about a couple of professors who aided and abetted Jane’s Revenge in the terrorism on pro-life pregnancy centers.
Nice..good for the Bulldogs!!
Go Dawgs, Go 🦅(Dawgs North)
Go Dawgs, Go 🦅(Dawgs North)
GO DAWGS! Next season will be a Threepeat.
The White House was insultingly late. Biden? we don’t need no stinkin’ Biden.
This crooked administration can’t even get a ceremonial photo-op right.
Then we will continue to raid your D.
Keep em coming.🤣🤣🤣 🦅
I read a tweet that said Mage, the Kentucky Derby winner, also declined an invitation to the White House. The horse intimated to his trainer that if he wanted to see a horse’s ass, he would have ran second.
If I was a player on that team (which would be a miracle because I hate the UG puppies) I’d be furious. To have a chance to be an invited guest at the WH is a once in a lifetime opportunity and it should not be political. I wonder exactly who made the decision?
They didn’t go last year, either..........
No class Puppies.
Good for them!!!!
Being invited to the biden White House is NO honor!!!!
Who is the “we” who will be raiding our D?
Maybe you mean like the NFL draft did last year and we still repeated a National Championship?
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