Georgia Loses Potential Football Player Over Immigration Rule

The Board of Regents decided that no high school students without proper documentation could attend one of the state’s premiere schools. Even if the student could get in. Even if he or she would pay out-of-state tuition.

The door would be shut to UGA, Tech, Georgia State , Georgia College and State University and the Georgia Health Sciences University.

In Athens, the of last year to ask Regents to repeal this policy. And the Student Government Association also condemned the Regents for their decision.

That disagreement with the Regents apparently wasn’t enough for UGA to retain one of its football players, as the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Good-bye to Chester Brown, a 6-foot-5, 340-pound offensive lineman from Hinesville. He had said in July that he was going to Georgia, but he subsequently told the AJC and other media outlets “that he was withdrawing his UGA commitment ‘for personal reasons,’ declining to elaborate.,” the story says.