Gators Marcus Thomas suspended for drugs

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#2
Kind of weird that he got tested after the TENN. game. Would it be possible that he was jacked up during the game.
 
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Urban Meyer breaks rules, lets suspended player play against UT


University of Florida head football coach Urban Meyer suspended key defensive lineman Marcus Thomas for the first game of the season for twice-failing a marijuana test.

Meyer then re-instated Thomas for the Tennessee game. After the Tennessee game Meyer suspended Thomas indefinitely.

According to news sources UF policy requires that a player be suspended for one-half of the season for failing a drug test.

Here's a link to the Mercury News that tells about the issue:
KRT Wire | 09/20/2006 | Florida suspends Marcus Thomas

Those who have been around for a while remember that former Gator head football coach Steve Spurrier would always suspend players for just the first one or two games then re-instate them for the Tennessee game.

What Spurrier used to do was borderline cheating. What Meyer did crossed over the border.

The Gators have a history of cheating. Back in the 1960s former Florida head coach Doug Dickey did what came to be known as the "Gator Flop" against the University of Miami. Late in a game where the Gators were leading by a comfortable margin Dickey instructed their defense to lay down on the field to let the Miami running back score a touchdown so that a Gator running back could get more carries in order to break a rushing record.

Gator fans put up with Dickey for seven or eight years after that. The only reason he was fired was because he did not win enough.

Then during the 1980s former Gator head coach Charley Pell cheated and got Florida on NCAA probation. His successor, Galen Hall, also got caught cheating and again got the University of Florida football program placed on NCAA probation.

In the most recent issue the UF administration knew that the player had tested positive and that, according to their rules, should have been suspended for the UT game.

There would be an outcry from the public if the University of Tennessee had done such a thing. I guess that goes to show the difference between the culture and values of the East Tennessee region compared to those of North Florida.

Apparently the University of Florida has a culture that feels that it cannot win without cheating.
 
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There would be an outcry from the public if the University of Tennessee had done such a thing.
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If that's not the truth, I don't know what is.
 
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#5
Typical Florida/Miami/Florida State type thing to do. Looks like the NCAA or SEC could do something about it.
 
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