Muschamp makes the difficult, but proper decision: Morrison will play vs. Miami

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If young athletes had a dime for every time they were justly arrested across the country, you might have enough to buy a cup of coffee. Might.
 
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#55
Let's keep it real folks...Morrison's suspension getting reduced had more to do with our Week 2 opponent than the BS arrest for barking at a damn dog.

Usually UF plays two cupcakes before Tennessee, and any off-season transgressions usually resulted in a suspension of at least a game, sometimes two.

I don't think Muschamp is anywhere as lenient as Meyer, otherwise Janoris Jenkins would have played for us in 2011. But UF needs Morrison against Miami, and that's as big a factor in the reduced suspension as the inept Gainesville PD targeting football players for nonsense.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
Let's keep it real folks...Morrison's suspension getting reduced had more to do with our Week 2 opponent than the BS arrest for barking at a damn dog.

Usually UF plays two cupcakes before Tennessee, and any off-season transgressions usually resulted in a suspension of at least a game, sometimes two.

I don't think Muschamp is anywhere as lenient as Meyer, otherwise Janoris Jenkins would have played for us in 2011. But UF needs Morrison against Miami, and that's as big a factor in the reduced suspension as the inept Gainesville PD targeting football players for nonsense.
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Just razzing ya
 
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#60
Barking at a police dog is a lame azz charge, but letting it go at that just takes all the fun out of it.:lolabove:
 
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Chas in Boca said:
I just think that sometimes Tennessee fans look at our legal issues and don't fully appreciate the challenges of dealing with a smaller community police department.

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Pure... unadulterated.... BS. The PD's job is NOT to assure that your thugletes are eligible for the next game. Their job is to protect the community from your thugletes.

Don't do the crime... no problem.

Stop signing thugs.... no problem.

Discipline your program.... no problem.

Coddling and excusing players then blaming the police.... PROBLEM.


We (me too) at one time excused Fulmer for running an undisciplined program. Kiffin for all of his own flaws dropped the hammer of discipline on UT's program and sent some guys packing that might have helped UT win some games. Dooley for all his inability to actually win games on Saturday continued to build on Kiffin's start to restoring discipline to UT's program. I am not sure that a UT player has had any brushes with the law since Jones arrived.

Muschamp did exactly the OPPOSITE of what would have been proper or courageous. The RIGHT thing to do would have been to draw the proverbial line in the sand by sending a starter packing for behaving that way. And the really, really weird part.... UF doesn't have to tolerate anything but the highest standard of player behavior. You'll get quality players WITH character and be able to keep them out of trouble if the leadership is there at the top... apparently it isn't.
 
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eVOLution said:
Overzealous PD?? Then what the hell were the keystone cops in Gainsville doing when Hernandez was going around shooting people? They still refuse to look at him as a suspect even though their own leaked report indicates that one of the victims described Hernandez and said he was sure the shooter was a Gator football player. Doesn't sound like an overzealous PD to me....
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:eek:lol: yea they are
 
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Chas in Boca said:
It's not easy being a NCAA football coach at a high profile institution like UF because you are faced with dilemmas such as this. Our star linebacker Antonio Morrison had a few brushes with the law, was suspended for the first two games, only to have the latest charge (barking at the police dog) ultimately dropped. Yet, with everything that has transpired between Hernandez, Cooper, and all the bad press about lack of discipline under the Meyer regime, it would be easy to uphold the 2 game suspicion as a sign of zero tolerance and to appease the critics.

But it also wouldn't be fair to Morrison, who was unjustly arrested in that second incident.

Muschamp knew he could make the easy choice and hold him out to win some brownie points with the media and our rivals, but instead he made the more difficult decision to reduce the suspension and let him play against Miami. Will he catch some flak for it? Yes. But oftentimes the right decision is the most difficult one to make.

A message also had to be sent to the rogue Gainesville Police Department. They can't expect to harass our players and try to make a name for themselves by getting big names suspended. The fact that the charges were dropped and the suspension was reduced should let them know we aren't putting up that nonsense anymore. They need to embrace Gator football players as an integral part of the community instead of targeting and entrapping them.

I applaud Muschamp for his ability to step back, objectively re-examine the facts, and amend his judgment. A 1 game suspension is sufficient for Morrison to learn his lesson, and then he can be ready to go against The U. Hopefully the media and rival fans will appreciate the complexity of this decision.
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The Koolaide is strong with this one
 
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