AJC: As Problems Mount, Smart Escapes Accountability

I will always and forever support the "Free the Nipple" movement!

 

Yet folks get upset when I free Willy

 

Standing downwind right?

 

I’ll say this, I went to UF from 96-2000. So it’s been awhile. Let’s put it this way, I wore sunglasses on campus so that I could enjoy the view and not get caught. My dorm was right across the old Purple Porpoise. I remember judging if I should even go out by what they looked like. The times I have gone back with a buddy, I tried doing the man these girls dress totally differently from when I went here. My buddy corrected me, yes they did. I think it’s the whole being married and having two kids. We like to think we were better than we actually were. When in reality we were just as brazen as 17-22 yr olds nowadays. The only difference is there weren’t cell phones around. Of course fashion changes. But the braless look never went out of style.

 

We’re literally the last ones to be throwing stones here. During the Meyer era, it was the closest thing I’ve seen to the thug trash at Miami in the 80s. There was ZERO accountability. Players assaulted others, got off, things were paid off reportedly like the Hernandez situation, and so forth.

 

Where were you during the Meyer era?

 

There is objective and then there's this. Tallahassee, GA, or Miami. So which one is it?

 

There’s a reason it’s getting a documentary, and second, I’ve been here since 2012 thanks. Muschamp in his first act was literally in a closed door meeting with the president of the university and told to clean up the program.

 

Yes, but which one is it? Tally? Athens? Be honest.

 

Then you should know not to insult former Gators like you have been and I've cleaned-up . . . so far.

 

Bullshit. We never ever had the network to cover up and manipulate the legal system to keep our players on the field. We had some issues under Meyer for sure, but sanctioned corruption throughout the athletic department all the way to the local PD was never in play. To insinuate that we were so corrupt as to bury 11 sexual assault charges is troll-worthy bullshit.

 

He compared us to Miami so it's either Athens or Tallahassee.

 

How women dress has nothing to do with anything, that kind of thinking is absurd. The person who abuses a woman should be jailed asap. Players should be suspended until the issue has been resolved.
My daughters graduated from UGA and if someone had done that to them he'd be in jail or worse.

 

Georgia Bulldogs are the new Miami Hurricanes.

 

What ever amount it... it was not enough shade was spilled on to he and that entire football program.

 

Right here watching kids get in trouble for tossing sub sandwiches at employees of sub shops. Yes the motorcycle accident that killed the player and a player's girlfriend was really bad, and so was that former player that committed suicide, even though he was no longer on the team. There we also many other minor offenses that happened too. But the one big one (murder) happened in New England and should NOT be part of the Gators' football program nor should it reflect on Meyer as our football coach.


More to your question, I was right here on Gator Country reading and writing about these events.

 

Lets try to determine the severity of the problem by another metric to see if it casts light on the arrests or unlawfulness of the program: How many players from that era were subject to civil suits for damages?

To my knowledge, the answer is none. Now, this is likely not the perfect frame to determine how "clean" the program was, but it is worth considering. Ernie Simms and Jamies had high profile civil cases.

Even most of the rumors are relatively innocuous; Percy Harvin suffered from sleep apnea and may have smoked weed, which was perhaps ignored... When he hurt his ankle before the NC game, he underwent extensive PT to be on the field. Bother were talented teams, but Percy rose to the bell and Demarco Murray did not; Florida wins by double digits and makes it a two score game on Percy's carry.

 

Its hard to disagree, but lets not also forget some of these cases are almost certainly not what is being alleged (for example, see the recent Matt Araiza). Now if there's 11 complaints against UGA players then odds are several of them are valid, and in this day and age any athletic department official who tries to involve themselves in an investigation into a sexual assault should get the Art Briles treatment.

 

11 complaints that had to filter through the university attempts to conceal them. Remember, they had a university rep on the scene of a traffic homicide and then there is Kirbys law as well. Kirby knew exactly what it took to win titles when he got there. Must have gone rogue since surely he didn't learn any of that from Saban...

 

That’s true for the perpetrator but how a woman presents herself is still important in how she is perceived by others.