Florida 41, Georgia 17 (final)

[Gatorubet]

I don't condone it. [censored] happens. I do not approve of it. There is no place for that type of [censored], but you will never NEVER remove it from football. I have no problem with Spikes being disciplined

Again, I condemn what it looks like Spikes was trying to do

If he sits a game I have no problem with it.

Fans. "My guy never did anything wrong." Spikes did.

I find it quite odd that you can't just say that Spikes did something that he shouldn't have and move on. "

Discussion board. We're discussin'

 

[buckeyesin07]

But it was a dirty game on both sides.

Tebow was eye gouged.

They brought cheap late backside crap at Spikes all day.

Spikes helmet was ripped off and he was head butted by another poodle.

Feel free to watch the first half of the 2006 BCS game. Your guys were committing personal fouls like mad.

but Singletary and Butkis and Nitschke and Lewis type guys are prone to do that - and have admitted doing some of that.

Butkis bit people in the pile and laughed about it.

When it becomes a war, you do things that you would not normally do.

But in that game, with that emotion, the Mutts trying to blow out his knees, etc, I can see how it happened.

but I have more sympathy for his losing it when they were dishing it out too. More of a "let em play" thing as long as nobody got hurt.

Discussin' indeed. Maybe even excuse makin' and pointin' the finger, no?

 

[Gatorubet]

Discussin' indeed. Maybe even excuse makin' and pointin' the finger, no?

I see that you took that well.

Yeah, I am defending my homie to the extent I can. Orange and blue shades and all. Some of that is directed at defending Urban from comments made here, and some is about my thinking there were mitigating circumstances.

If I spit on you and gouged your eye, I'm pretty sure that you would respond. So while your retaliating would be wrong, it would be understandable. I guess that is what I think. So my blind hatred for the silver britches (pardon me - for the Grambling clones) has warped my moral compass to the extent that I give him more of a pass than I would had he suddenly gone off on some random Kentucky player in an otherwise well played game. My bad man.

 

[BigWoof31]

I don't know why this is such a big deal. Honestly - we scored a touchdown on the very next play.

 

[Gatorubet]

I don't know why this is such a big deal. Honestly - we scored a touchdown on the very next play.

Spikz is da worstest playah evuh!!

At least Mike Golic and the Vol board say so. I suspect that some of your dawg fans are "releasing" from the beat down by focusing on this.

I still have a problem believing you are a UGA fan, being both rational and literate.

 

[jazzman]

Gatorcountry has guys going both ways. The usual. Some say it never happened or is inconclusive, some say it was deserved, some say it was understandable given the tone of the game and unfortunate, and some say it was inexcusable no matter the situation. The gamut.

well, there's a shocker!

 

[buckeyesin07]

Some pretty harsh words regarding Urban's handling of the matter:

Either way, it's a complete farce that Spikes was only suspended for a half.

And I bet Meyer would feel the same way if we were talking about one of his players that was on the receiving end.

Meyer got it half right in punishing Spikes - SEC - ESPN

 

[BB73]

Florida suspended Spikes for the first half, and the SEC has accepted that punishment, per ESPNews.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

Some pretty harsh words regarding Urban's handling of the matter:



Meyer got it half right in punishing Spikes - SEC - ESPN

seems logical to me. look at the coleman thread and the pettrey thread only a few weeks apart. when the dirty play is on your guy its a cheap shot, when your guy delivers the blow hes finishing the play (or some other lame excuse)

 

[Bucklion]

seems logical to me. look at the coleman thread and the pettrey thread only a few weeks apart. when the dirty play is on your guy its a cheap shot, when your guy delivers the blow hes finishing the play (or some other lame excuse)

I think intent is a key (without judging a particular case). If you hit a guy at 100 MPH and you hit him in the head because he turned suddenly, there is an argument to be made in your favor, even with a head-to-head blow. If a guy is gouging eyes, there is no argument in his favor...that goes beyond "chippiness" because the only intent is to permanently injure...so it either happened or it didn't.

 

[bkochmc]

Spikz is da worstest playah evuh!!

At least Mike Golic and the Vol board say so. I suspect that some of your dawg fans are "releasing" from the beat down by focusing on this.

I still have a problem believing you are a UGA fan, being both rational and literate.

Vols whining about Gators? Say it ain't so!

 

[buckeyesin07]

It seems as though the SEC's rubber-stamp of Meyer's half-game suspension of Spikes is (unsurprisingly) doing nothing to help the SEC's reputation on a national scale. In regards to the argument that Tressel level the the same or less punishment than what Meyer handed out had this been an OSU linebacker, the bolded text below is interesting:

Apparently, trying to blind someone is far less serious than complaining about an official's blown call. While the SEC brass is content to hold the Sword of Damocles over the head of any coach who dares question a bad call that might have cost his team a victory, conference officials are perfectly cool with Florida coach Urban Meyer's decision to suspend linebacker Brandon Spikes for the first half of Saturday's game against Vanderbilt for Spikes' eye gouge of Georgia tailback Waushan Ealey in the Gators' win against Georgia.

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As I wrote yesterday, if Spikes played for Ohio State, he'd be sitting at least a game.

SEC rubber-stamps Spikes suspension | FanNation

 

[buckeyesin07]

Half a game? Wow. What would have happened if Brandon Spikes had succeeded in actually removing Washaun Ealey's eyeball from its socket?

God forbid, Spikes would have to sit three quarters.

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Spikes deserved to be suspended a full game, at least. Maybe more. This is disengenous as hell. I want to see an apology from Spikes, both public and in the form of a letter, to Ealey.

We're told that eye gouging is part of the game, much like a punch to the package. That doesn't mean it's right and certainly doesn't mean it's right when someone did it to you first.

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Florida pleads an eye for an eye - CBSSports.com

 

[BigWoof31]

I still have a problem believing you are a UGA fan, being both rational and literate.

Humility is more stinky than the worst french cheese.

 

[Gatorubet]

well, there's a shocker!

Well played Jazz.