Florida OL arrested

#51
#51
"Ronnie, we're not going to let you participate in the Gator Walk for the first home game. I'm sorry."
 
#53
#53
Tid, you seem awfully sure of yourself on this one. If the punishment is severe and involves eithe rmissing a half season or being kicked out altogether, will you give Meyer kudos for pulling the trigger?

(No pun intended).
 
#56
#56
Why is it incumbent on anybody to give somebody kudos for doing the right thing?
 
#58
#58
Or the could do like last year and put off the suspension altogether until after the UT game.
 
#59
#59
GAVol said:
Why is it incumbent on anybody to give somebody kudos for doing the right thing?
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Ordinarily there would be no such obligation, I agree.

But if Tidwell insists on posting made up comments from Foley or Meyer that mock them for excusing this -- even before that happens -- then I think that Tidwell takes on an obligation to acknowledge that he was wrong and that they did the right thing. Assuming of course that they do the right thing. If they don't and he gets some lame minimal punishment that lets him play in big early games, then I'll join in on the mocking.
 
#60
#60
Meyer will take his XBOX away, "No Madden for you" (it sounds better if you say it in the soup nazi's voice)
 
#62
#62
rexvol said:
Meyer will take his XBOX away, "No Madden for you" (it sounds better if you say it in the soup nazi's voice)
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Again, you base this on the assumption that Meyer will not take this as the apparently ultra-serious offense that it is. If things turn out to be as reported, I expect him to kick the guy off the team or, if there is some reasonably significant mitigation, at least suspend him for more than the UCF game.
 
#63
#63
GAVol said:
Having seen the Marcus Thomas model . . . I'm assuming that we can look forward to a very stiff suspension which is due to begin about 15 minutes after our game in Gainesville next September.
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correct!
 
#64
#64
I just heard that they were suspending him, with pay, pending the investigation.
 
#65
#65
lawgator1 said:
Again, you base this on the assumption that Meyer will not take this as the apparently ultra-serious offense that it is. If things turn out to be as reported, I expect him to kick the guy off the team or, if there is some reasonably significant mitigation, at least suspend him for more than the UCF game.
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so testing positive for weed twice is not "serious"???

:crazy:
 
#68
#68
If he projects as a starter, he'll have to run stadium steps.

If he's a back-up, 5 game suspension.
 
#69
#69
The Marcus Thomas incident was different at many levels. The initial suspension, which was driven by university policy, was called into question by a claim that the second positive drug test was a consequence of the same usage causing the first positive. As there was apparently some doubt as to the validity of the second test being an indicator of an additional usage, the university was forced to relent and they put Thomas on a very tight probation.

Thomas violated it, not with another positive test, but by missing a single counseling session without permission. He was immediately and summarily kicked off the team.

Get your facts straight. It was handled the only way it could be handled while giving Thomas appropriate due process.
 
#70
#70
lawgator1 said:
The Marcus Thomas incident was different at many levels. The initial suspension, which was driven by university policy, was called into question by a claim that the second positive drug test was a consequence of the same usage causing the first positive. As there was apparently some doubt as to the validity of the second test being an indicator of an additional usage, the university was forced to relent and they put Thomas on a very tight probation.

Thomas violated it, not with another positive test, but by missing a single counseling session without permission. He was immediately and summarily kicked off the team.

Get your facts straight. It was handled the only way it could be handled while giving Thomas appropriate due process.
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It just so happened it fell so he could play against UT.
 
#71
#71
lawgator1 said:
As there was apparently some doubt as to the validity of the second test being an indicator of an additional usage, the university was forced to relent and they put Thomas on a very tight probation.
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You certianly would want to give a drug addict the benefit of the doubt. Makes sense to me.
 
#72
#72
lawgator1 said:
The Marcus Thomas incident was different at many levels. The initial suspension, which was driven by university policy, was called into question by a claim that the second positive drug test was a consequence of the same usage causing the first positive. As there was apparently some doubt as to the validity of the second test being an indicator of an additional usage, the university was forced to relent and they put Thomas on a very tight probation.

Thomas violated it, not with another positive test, but by missing a single counseling session without permission. He was immediately and summarily kicked off the team.

Get your facts straight. It was handled the only way it could be handled while giving Thomas appropriate due process.
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"appropriate due process"...

You may not know it but I am an attorney in Knoxville and have been in practice for 10 years.

Due process........ what the heck....... You can't tell me you really buy that whole story.

I know UT is not perfect and their players have done some pretty stupid things. However, I do know that had a UT Fball player tested positive for weed, he would have been suspended immediately. Meyer was doing the Carolina Shuffle around the issue.
 
#73
#73
Now I wonder if he was high on crack when he was arrested.LG=:neener:
 
#74
#74
patrick said:
However, I do know that had a UT Fball player tested positive for weed, he would have been suspended immediately.
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Uh, no. The number of UT players who have failed drug test without being suspended would overload this board. The UTAD's policy, by its terms, doesn't even mandate a suspension until there are multiple failed tests.
 
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