(orange+white=heaven @ Jun 20 said:
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.