2010 Florida Gators

[snow]

Im guessing they wouldn't want to wind up having another Riley Cooper,
who put up the best season stats for a wide receiver at UF(yards, yards
per catch, and I think only one receiver had more tds, Baker with 10
compared to Cooper's 9) since 2002. Funny you should mention Travis McGriff being the last before that. In 98, his 1357 yards 19.4 ypc 10 td, from looking at the stats, the most productive season a receiver has had from what I could see in terms of yards and from what I see, also yards per catch. Chris Doering had a little over 1,000 in 95 and 17 tds. The only receiver close to McGriff's season that I can find is Riedel Anthony with 1298 and 18 tds, 18 ypc. He was drafted in the first while McGriff went in the 3rd.

Both McGriff and Cooper rank in the top 20 for receiving yards in UF history despite only really getting to start for one season. McGriff is 14th and Cooper is 18th. Doering is ranked 8th but Im not sure if he started in 93 and 94, but he probably saw a decent amount of time in the slot.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

<h1 ="h2">Florida's Janoris Jenkins arrested again</h1>http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6415600



GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida cornerback Janoris Jenkins has been charged with marijuana possession for the second time this year.

A
Gainesville police report says an officer spotted the 22-year-old
sitting in a parked car, smoking what the officer later found to be a
marijuana cigar.

He was charged early Saturday with possession of
marijuana less than 20 grams, a misdemeanor. He was released after
signing a notice to appear in court May 12.

Jenkins was arrested
on the same charge in January, for which he accepted a plea deal and
paid $316. He was also arrested in May 2009 during a downtown fight. He
signed a deferred prosecution agreement, agreeing to probation and
community service.

University officials could not be immediately reached on Saturday for comment.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

This Jenkins is a real smart one. A couple of Atlanta sports talking heads were saying what a goof he was earlier today. It will be interesting to see what "the Florida way" coach Will Muschamp will do about it.

 

[Highlander]

Wonders never cease...Jenkins kicked off team:

<h1>Janoris Jenkins kicked off Florida Gators</h1>

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida has dismissed star cornerback Janoris Jenkins after his third arrest in the last two years.




Coach Will Muschamp announced Jenkins' dismissal Tuesday, three days
after his latest arrest. He was charged with marijuana possession
Saturday after a Gainesville Police officer spotted the 22-year-old
sitting in a parked car, smoking what the officer later found to be a
marijuana cigar.


Jenkins was arrested on the same charge in January and later accepted
a plea deal. He also was arrested in May 2009 during a downtown fight.
He signed a deferred prosecution agreement, agreeing to probation and
community service.


Mushcamp says he met with Jenkins on Tuesday, and both felt it was in
Jenkins' best interest to move on "to the next stage of his career."
</span>http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/189067/4/Janoris-Jenkins-kicked-off-Florida-Gators

DWFs on Eagles and Bengals sites are already wanting him in the supplemental draft

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Another piece of good news today! Thanks for posting, Highlander.

 

[Highlander]

Here's a very good and revealing article from a couple of days ago from The Sporting News exposing Urban Meyer. Of course we all new much of this and could assume the rest:

From champs to chomped: How Urban Meyer broke Florida football

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo...-violation-recruiting-drugs-program-will-musc

...

Only now, through interviews with multiple sources during a three-month Sporting News investigation, do we see just how damaged the infrastructure really was and how much repair work second-year coach Will Muschamp has had to undertake in replacing Meyer—who has moved on to Ohio State less than a year after resigning from Florida for health reasons.
...

Now those issues have surfaced for all to see. Left in the wake of Meyer’s resignation were problems that can destroy a coaching career: drug use among players, a philosophy of preferential treatment for certain players, a sense of entitlement among all players and roster management by scholarship manipulation.

The coach who holds himself above the seedy underbelly of the game; who as an ESPN television analyst in 2011 publicly berated the ills of college football; left a program mired in the very things he has criticized.

“The program,” former Florida safety Bryan Thomas said, “was out of control.”
...

It was Harvin, more than anyone, who epitomized the climate Meyer created. While former players say Harvin always was treated differently as a member of Meyer’s Circle of Trust, it was the beginning of his sophomore season—after he helped lead the Gators to the 2006 national title—that it became blatant. That's also when it began to contribute negatively toward team chemistry.

During offseason conditioning before the 2007 season, the team was running stadium steps and at one point, Harvin, according to sources, sat down and refused to run. When confronted by strength and conditioning coaches, Harvin—who failed to return calls and texts to his cell phone to comment on this story—said, “This (expletive) ends now.”

“The next day,” a former player said, “we were playing basketball as conditioning.”

It only got worse as Harvin’s career progressed. At one point during the 2008 season, multiple sources confirmed that Harvin, now a prominent member of the Minnesota Vikings, physically attacked wide receivers coach Billy Gonzales, grabbing him by the neck and throwing him to the ground. Harvin had to be pulled off Gonzales by two assistant coaches—but was never disciplined.

...
Even as the unprecedented success at Florida continued, a mounting number of players were dragging the Gators’ name down a path of drugs and destruction. At least 30 players were arrested in Meyer’s six seasons. Instances of substance abuse were often linked to his most prized athletes.

 

[DixieDestroyer]

HL, thanks for posting that article. I'd seen that the other day & thought of posting it here on CF. What a sold-out lowlife Urban Leyer is. :tsk: I'm sure this type of under the rug sweeping & coddling is par for the course for most all SEC coaches....totally pathetic.

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

the oh-so-aptly named "Urban" Meyer is a fine example of all that is wrong with collegiate athletics, and he personifies the Caste System. here's a guy who has abandoned every ethical principal a coach should have in order to aquiesce to the black player and "win" with the ghetto. yet, look at all he has lost in the bigger picture ... and then stop and consider that the two best players he has ever coached are White: Tim Tebow and Eric Weddle.

one would think that a family man (Meyer, quite surprisingly, has White children) would want to do the right thing for them and his extended family in general. how can he look his kids in the eyes and be proud of what he's done? instead, he's forsaken all that, and for what? to win football games? pfft. he likely could've won more games and certainly could have slept better at night if he had recruited more Weddle/Tebow-type athletes instead of so many affletes like Harvin.

but, i'm preaching to the choir here.