Jarvis Jones, a member of the Georgia football coaching staff, was arrested less than twenty-four hours before the Bulldogs, the two-time defending champions, opened the season on suspicion of reckless driving and speeding.

Under head coach Kirby Smart, Jones, a former All-American linebacker at Georgia and four-season Pittsburgh Steelers player, serves as the Bulldogs’ coordinator of player connections. Jones was taken into custody by Athens-Clarke County Police on Friday night on misdemeanor charges of careless driving and exceeding the speed limit.

He was given a $2,400 bond and freed.

When questioned about the arrest on Monday, Smart stated that there would be internal discipline. “I can’t speak further on that as it’s a personnel matter.

Back-to-back national champion Georgia defeated UT Martin 48–7 on Saturday night to start the season.

Since the Bulldogs won the title in January, at least a dozen players have been accused of moving offenses.

Both outside linebacker Samuel M’Pemba and defensive lineman Tyrian Ingram-Dawkins received speeding citations in July.

On January 15, the evening before Georgia celebrated its win, offensive lineman Devin Willock and staff member Chandler LeCroy perished in a car accident. According to the police, former defensive lineman Jalen Carter was allegedly racing them.

When LeCroy’s SUV veered off the road and collided with trees and power poles, it was exceeding 100 mph.

During the SEC media days this summer, Smart stated that UGA initiated a system of “checks and balances” for self-reporting speeding tickets and invited in police to speak with the players.

Smart expressed his disappointment at the number of driving citations his players had received.

He acknowledged to ESPN at the same time that he couldn’t completely stop speeding.

However, Smart stated that whenever someone receives a speeding ticket, it will become the main item on the front page of his program. There would be a lot more of them if they went and searched every SEC player for speeding tickets.

However, the microscope under which we find ourselves is a good one. You know what it’s forcing us to do, though? We’re trying to stop it because of it. Compared to other countries in the nation, we are taking more steps to stop speeding.

During media days, fourth-year junior offensive guard Sedrick Van Pran told ESPN that the squad cannot keep making the same mistakes.

He remarked, “I don’t want to call it a slap in the face because that gives the impression that it’s more purposeful, which it’s not.” More than anything, it seems like we’re failing the university and the men who came before us—whether they were teammates or just accomplished individuals who attended the university. Thus, there was a greater appreciation for the fact that you are speaking for more people than just yourself and that things need to get tighter and fixed, like a period.