-- Georgia cornerback

Sheldon Dawson

will be disciplined internally for poking Alabama cornerback

Dee Milliner

in the eye during the SEC Championship, Bulldogs coach

Mark Richt

told reporters today.

The discipline, Richt said, would not involve a loss of playing time for Dawson in next month's Capital One Bowl game against Nebraska.

"Dawson saw it, and Dawson realizes it was a bad thing, and a bad image for him and for Georgia," Richt said,

. "He understood why I needed to discipline him."

The SEC announced today that no players would receive suspensions for various acts of misconduct during the SEC Championship game. That umbrella covered Dawson as well as Alabama defensive end

Quinton Dial

,

hit on Georgia quarterback

Aaron Murray

immediately drew national scorn.

Neither Dial's hit nor Dawson's eye poke were flagged as penalties during the game. In fact, Milliner was penalized for shoving Dawson after he jammed his fingers through Milliner's facemask.

"Something happened before, and when I turned around ... I was pointing, and my hand went straight through his face mask," Dawson, a freshman, told reporters in Georgia today. "They were saying I tried to eye gouge him or something like that. I looked at the video too, and it did look like I went into his face, but it didn't go like me grabbing his face or trying to poke his eye. ... You will never see that happen again, because that's not me."

In an interview last week on the

, Milliner said Dawson had apologized to him and that the incident was water under the bridge.