Zach Mettenberger, Welcome to Idiot University

If you are in your Sophomore year in college, and your a backup quarterback at a major college program. When you have an opportunity win the starting job as the quarterback of the University of Georgia, I would think you would do everything you can both on and off the field to earn that job. you are competing with two other guys who are as good, maybe better than you. You cant slip up.

Unless, that is, you are Zach Mettenberger. Sunday night, Mettenberger was charged with under age drinking, obstruction of justice (in this case, lying to the police) and disorderly conduct, plus two other charges at a bar down in Remerton, GA near Valdosta. It is Spring Break at UGA, and the players got a break from Spring practice as well. there is no doubt that Coach Mark Richt told the guys to keep their noses clean and stay out of trouble. Mettenberger, apparently, didn't get the message. To be the starting quarterback at a place like Georgia requires not only superior physical talent but leadership ability as well. Mettenberger has the talent. By all accounts, he has a great arm. However, if you cant make wise decisions off the field and do the right things, how can your teammates trust you on the field.

Zach Mettenberger's idiotic behavior over the weekend will cost him dearly. There will be some sort of suspension. He will lose valuable practice time in which Logan Grey and Aaron Murray, the other two QBs vying for the spot, will move ahead of him. He has put himself behind the 8 ball. For his sake, I hope he gets a second chance, but his chances of becoming the Dawgs' No. 1 guy, at least for 2010, have been severely diminished. Ironically, while Mettenberger was engaging in his stupidity, another more accomplished QB with the name of "Berger" was misbehaving some 100 miles north of Remerton. Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roeflisberger is under investigation for sexual misconduct in Millidgeville, GA, where he has a home on Lake Oconee. This is obviously nothing more than a coincidence, but a strange one indeed. It was a bad weekend for the Bergers in Georgia. Zach, I hope for the best for you and I hope you at least get some playing time at UGA if you never start, but you did it to yourself. Zach Mettenberger, welcome to Idiot University.