In not-so-surprising news, the University of Georgia and athletic director Damon Evans, who recently went through a highly embarrassing DUI arrest, have reached a settlement agreement according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. As part of the agreement, Evans is expected to resign on Monday.
Evans, 40, was arrested on a DUI charge after a traffic stop late Wednesday night. Evans refused a breathalyzer test and spent the night in the city jail.
Courtney Fuhrmann, 28, who was in the car with Evans, was arrested for disorderly conduct. A married father of two, Evans called Fuhrmann “a friend.”
When the state trooper who pulled Evans and Fuhrmann over asked Evans why he had a pair of red panties between his legs, Evans replied: “She took them off and I held them because I was just trying to get her home,” the trooper’s report states.
At one point, Evans pleaded with the officer: “I am not trying to bribe you, but I am the athletic director of the University of Georgia,” the report states.
People make mistakes, but athletic directors of major universities can’t make those kinds of mistakes (i.e. the ones were you try to bargain with a police officer to let you out of a DUI while you sit there with a woman who isn’t your wife riding shotgun and her underwear in between your legs).
There’s no way UGA could allow Evans to keep his job. They would have looked like hypocrites if they didn’t fire the same man that was shown in DUI prevention videos before all of the school’s home football games last year who said to the police officer after getting pulled over: “We go through life and we all drink and jump in a car.”
