Gator Country

ArtVandelay · 03-07-2013, 04:32 PM

probably old, but still funny...

gatorr4life · 03-07-2013, 04:43 PM

can't believe I've never seen that. funny... though we've had our fair share of jail time.

**COGatorman** · 03-07-2013, 04:51 PM

PD?

GatorPrincess8 · 03-07-2013, 09:39 PM

I've never seen it either, funny.

rivergator · 03-07-2013, 09:58 PM

yeah, i'm not sure we should be talking about other school's arrests ...

Gatorrick22 · 03-08-2013, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by rivergator

yeah, i'm not sure we should be talking about other school's arrests ...

Try not to slap our own kids when we're disparaging others.

theologator · 03-08-2013, 08:01 AM

Perfect timing since they are just about to get off probation for having MORE athletes busted at once for cheating than properties on a monopoly board.

A car is doing 76 on the interstate (70mph zone) and gets passed by a car doing 97. They are both speeding. They could both get tickets, but the second car's would rightly be much more severe - and could lead to an immediate arrest. "Everyone was speeding" isn't a reasonable defense for car #2. Magnitude matters.

I did a thorough breakdown of the 31 arrests under Meyer when that was the buzz. The vast majority were dumb mistakes - misdemeanors - like driving without a license. The serious ones - felonies - got serious discipline including longer term suspensions. Repeat and major offenders were expelled. I found Meyer's reaction appropriate given the circumstances available to the public.

FSU? During the Bowden years discipline was almost entirely shaped by a player's ability and value toward winning games. The complicity of staff and even local law enforcement was awful. A gambling ring IN your locker room with two of your equipment managers arrested as bookies and we are supposed to believe just one player was involved? 63 athletes across a dozen sports all caught cheating with the help of academic advisors?

Miami? Your strength & conditioning coach gets arrested for trafficking steroids right at the time your team seems impossibly faster and more aggressive than anyone else? NO response from the NCAA. 15 years later you're embroiled in another gargantuan scandal and your best defense is that the cop tricked you into confessing too much?

If anything, that board isn't big enough.

DeBigLeezard · 03-08-2013, 08:52 AM

Theo....
You are totally, completely and absolutely FED-X Overnight CORRECT.

Look at it this way...

Find one... one... ONE school in the entire history and collection of all 117 NCAA schools in America that has done more cheating than Miami.

FSU ranks up there pretty high... along with Alabama and AWBRIN...
But comes no where near what Miami has been doing and doing it blatantly over the decades.