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06-26-2007, 04:35 PM
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#61 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by lawgator1  Its the guys with a little bit of pot that test your resolve. | If Florida got rid of all the potheads, that would be most of their team. | 
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06-26-2007, 04:38 PM
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#62 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Vercingetorix I was enormously cynical about all of this when I was a student -- e.g., "A lot of these guys aren't even really our fellow students. They should just call them what they are, which is employees of the university; pay them a salary and offer them free tuition if they should choose to take classes." Etc. etc. etc. I guess I'm older and more resigned to it all now, but some of these situations still manage to be particularly appalling.
It's worse when it's your own school participating in these shenanigans. I would rather lose football games than have a girlfriend-beating jackass like the guy KPT mentioned play for my alma mater. | Additionally, McClure is the player that flipped out in front of the T-Recs building (student workout and intramurals facility). He also threatened a professor, accosted a random female student that happened to walk by his tirade, taunted the police, attempted to fight them, and then after being apprehended, he tried to escape. He still played the next season. Honestly, he wasn't even that good. | |
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06-26-2007, 04:38 PM
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#63 (permalink)
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| Pot is, IMO, probably less dangerous than ethyl alcohol, and it's ridiculous that it's illegal. Ideally being busted with pot would be treated about the same as illegal consumption of alcohol. However, it IS illegal, and these guys all know the rules. Whatever the rules are, apply them uniformly, etc.
Your point is well taken. A guy who smoked pot does not embarrass me by wearing orange and white like the guys who start fights, commit robberies, etc. | |
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06-26-2007, 04:41 PM
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#64 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kptvol Additionally, McClure is the player that flipped out in front of the T-Recs building (student workout and intramurals facility). He also threatened a professor, accosted a random female student that happened to walk by his tirade, taunted the police, attempted to fight them, and then after being apprehended, he tried to escape. He still played the next season. Honestly, he wasn't even that good. | Yeah, I remember the guy. Appalling that he wasn't kicked off the team. It grates on my nerves every time I read about the so-called Fulmer Cup, but for awhile there we earned it. | |
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06-26-2007, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by oklavol If Florida got rid of all the potheads, that would be most of their team. |
Et tu Brute? | |
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06-26-2007, 05:07 PM
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#66 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by lawgator1 Sure, we can all signle out the worst offender and proclaim our outrage. I, for example, have no problem booting off the UF team the player who fired a gun into the air to "scare" someone he was arguing with.
Its the guys with a little bit of pot that test your resolve. |
Florida's list is indicative of the current culture, just like it was when Tennessee's players were getting arrested every day. all I can say is, "Live by the thug, die by the thug." | 
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06-26-2007, 05:35 PM
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#67 (permalink)
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| They should change the Fulmer Cup to the Herban Meyer Bong. | |
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06-26-2007, 05:40 PM
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#68 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by lawgator1 Et tu Brute? | Shakespeare has absolutely no place in a VN thread. Further such outbursts of civility and culture will not be tolerated. | |
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06-26-2007, 08:17 PM
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#69 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BigPapaVol Shakespeare has absolutely no place in a VN thread. Further such outbursts of civility and culture will not be tolerated. |
Especially when appropo. | |
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06-26-2007, 08:26 PM
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#70 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by lawgator1 Especially when appropo. | Or even when apropos. | |
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06-26-2007, 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by kptvol Or even when apropos. |  | |
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06-26-2007, 08:54 PM
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#73 (permalink)
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| You know, I simply must point out the irony I just observed. And which literally made me laugh out loud.
Look across the top of this page at the minimalist advertising allowed. I see one:
"Expungement Assistance."
On a board.
Where there is a thread.
About UF players being felons. | |
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06-26-2007, 09:06 PM
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#74 (permalink)
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06-26-2007, 09:07 PM
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#75 (permalink)
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| At the top it says "Expungement Assistance. Clear Criminal Record Today Improve Job Opportunities Now!"
Freakin' hilarious given the thread subject. | |
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