Gator player in trouble AGAIN

**lawgator1** · 06-20-2006, 10:46 AM

Gators trying to blow it already.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/...-home-headlines

**OrangeEmpire** · 06-20-2006, 10:50 AM

Did Florida have former Vols transfer in?

**lawgator1** · 06-20-2006, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by (OrangeEmpire @ Jun 20, 2006 10:50 AM)

Did Florida have former Vols transfer in?

No, but Meyer was seen on a beach the other day reading "Fulmer on Discipline."

**OrangeEmpire** · 06-20-2006, 11:13 AM

That is about as good as Fulmer reading "Meyer on Championships".

**orange+white=heaven** · 06-20-2006, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by (lawgator1 @ Jun 20, 2006 11:12 AM)

No, but Meyer was seen on a beach the other day reading "Fulmer on Discipline."

funny.

rockytop muskrat · 06-20-2006, 01:11 PM

**jakez4ut** · 06-20-2006, 02:00 PM

soooo....let me get this straight, a guy that is potentially going to start in the Defensive backfeild for Florida claims "self defense" from a woman????

let that guy start...please!!!!!!

**lawgator1** · 06-20-2006, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by (jakez4ut @ Jun 20, 2006 2:00 PM)

soooo....let me get this straight, a guy that is potentially going to start in the Defensive backfeild for Florida claims "self defense" from a woman????

let that guy start...please!!!!!!

Good point jake!!

Just got to hope your receivers and running backs don't hit like girls.

Uh, oh.

**VolinArizona** · 06-20-2006, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by (lawgator1 @ Jun 20, 2006 8:12 AM)

No, but Meyer was seen on a beach the other day reading "Fulmer on Discipline."

I saw Phil reading "Meyer on Loyalty"

and also

"Meyer on Home Stability"

:D

**jakez4ut** · 06-20-2006, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by (lawgator1 @ Jun 20, 2006 1:18 PM)

Good point jake!!

Just got to hope your receivers and running backs don't hit like girls.

Uh, oh.

no, just catch like them.... :banghead:

**lawgator1** · 06-20-2006, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by (jakez4ut @ Jun 20, 2006 3:19 PM)

no, just catch like them.... :banghead:

LMAO[size=7]

**orange+white=heaven** · 06-20-2006, 03:48 PM

So LG, how is Meyer responding to the peppering of troubles this off season in your opinion? Is he out in front of it enough?

**lawgator1** · 06-20-2006, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by (orange+white=heaven @ Jun 20, 2006 3:48 PM)

So LG, how is Meyer responding to the peppering of troubles this off season in your opinion? Is he out in front of it enough?

Hard to say for sure. Down here in Orlando we get these unclear news reports. This particular incident by itself would probably not be a big deal but in context of the guy's other problems there is obviously something very wrong going on and it needs to be addressed because it is becoming a distraction and will become in the future even more of a distraction.

I was pretty unhappy with the resolution of the gun thing. Even assuming that the players and ex-players involved fired it accidentally, and even if the guns were owned legally, it is very unsettling for college football players to own assault rifles and multiple handguns.

At some point, even if there is no technical violation of the law, you have to be willing to say holy crap and do something when players are obviously up to no good. Even if the players with the guns weren't up to no good it sure looked like it and I as coach would not want it on my head if some tragedy evolved out of it.

I'd at least make them give up the guns while playing for me. Put them in storage or something.

And if that makes me look like a super-careful wuss and I miss out on recruiting a thug because of it, then so be it.

**orange+white=heaven** · 06-20-2006, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by (lawgator1 @ Jun 20, 2006 4:05 PM)

Hard to say for sure....

I actually expected you to come down somewhere in the neighborhood of what you just wrote.

With us last year it was the whole "Let the process run its course" position that got Fulmer and Co. in so much hot water with the press. Obviously I'm too far removed from Gainesville to know, but Meyer seems to be taking a similar approach without facing a heat similar to that which CPF did last season.

**lawgator1** · 06-20-2006, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by (orange+white=heaven @ Jun 20, 2006 4:15 PM)

I actually expected you to come down somewhere in the neighborhood of what you just wrote.

With us last year it was the whole "Let the process run its course" position that got Fulmer and Co. in so much hot water with the press. Obviously I'm too far removed from Gainesville to know, but Meyer seems to be taking a similar approach without facing a heat similar to that which CPF did last season.

Well, overall as I say the gun thing did bother me a lot and I wish he'd been more aggressive with it.

As to Meyer not facing heat over things I think that is because nothing really bad has happened, yet. If some player shoots and kills a student you can be sure there will be people like me shaking their heads, expecially when the university gets hit with a multi-million $ lawsuit.

The fact that Meyer does not get on the players for stupid crap, I believe, causes more disicpline problems down the road. At some point an example has to be set, even if it means losing a good player. Its the only way to let 20 year old kids know that you mean it when you tell them don't test me.

Let's face it. The main problem with 20 year old kids is not that they are evil. Its that they think they are invincible. They don't believe that THEY will cause an accident after drinking. They don't believe that THEY will accidentally cause someone serious injury in a fight outside a bar at 2 a.m. When you add on to that any perception that even if they do something wrong they will get a pass because of their status as athletes, that is a formula for them never realizing that what they do affects people.

To you and me, the notion of a college student aremd with an AK-47 and three handguns is startling. To them, its cool, or worse its funny.