Brandon Spikes THUG Play vs UGA
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I agree - they are not fighting a war out there. Trying to blind another player is never acceptable on a football field - NEVER. I don't think that he should be suspended for the rest of the year - maybe the rest of the regular season. Certainly not forever. But a half game suspension is a joke. Let's face it, the rest of their games in the regular season are wins, with or without Spikes. So this suspension makes no sense.
And Meyer's comments were a joke. Meyer did not condemn the behavior. He said that he did not condone it. Seriously?
Pretty sad state of affairs at UF, but it is my belief that this kind of thing will hurt their program over time, so let Meyer keep it up. You reap what you sow...
I bet LeGarette Blount wishes he had gone to UF instead of Oregon now, he'd still be playing football.
UF, get ready for a team full of thugs. Don't think this doesn't resonate with some of the idiots out there in high school.
I'm sure some of them are thinking:
The SEC is getting a bad reputation nationally. UT signs a rapist, Ole Miss signs Hornsby last year who was kicked out of Florida for using a dead womans credit card. How big of a thug do you have to be to get kicked out of Florida?!? People around the U.S. think there's a conspiracy to get UF and Bama in the SECCG and 1/3rd of the coaches in this league are on the verge of getting suspended for talking about bad officiating, even though our league publicly suspended a crew for the first time in conference history. Somethings gotta give or our league will collapse within 10 years.
UF, get ready for a team full of thugs. Don't think this doesn't resonate with some of the idiots out there in high school.
I'm sure some of them are thinking:
The SEC is getting a bad reputation nationally. UT signs a rapist, Ole Miss signs Hornsby last year who was kicked out of Florida for using a dead womans credit card. How big of a thug do you have to be to get kicked out of Florida?!? People around the U.S. think there's a conspiracy to get UF and Bama in the SECCG and 1/3rd of the coaches in this league are on the verge of getting suspended for talking about bad officiating, even though our league publicly suspended a crew for the first time in conference history. Somethings gotta give or our league will collapse within 10 years.
Brandon Spikes was flat out wrong for what he did, no doubt about it. I don't condone it or support it in any way, no matter what happened to him previously in the game.
However, I can understand what led to the incident. Again, not excusing it, but both Spikes and Tebow were targeted early on with dirty play from the UGA players. Tebow took a cheap shot hit after a handoff early in the game and then later got poked in the eye himself. Spikes may wear a visor, but if I remember correctly the UGA fullback ran his hands under the guy's facemask and tore his helmet off (don't know if Spikes actually got poked or not).
It was foolish of Spikes to retaliate the way he did and I think he got off light. However, I can totally understand why he lost his cool. I think the baseball analogy is a good one. If you throw at my head enough times, watch out when your cleanup guy comes to the plate.
The bigger story to me in this controversey is how quickly UGA has become a joke of a program. They are starting to remind me of UT when Fulmer started losing his grip.
However, I can understand what led to the incident. Again, not excusing it, but both Spikes and Tebow were targeted early on with dirty play from the UGA players. Tebow took a cheap shot hit after a handoff early in the game and then later got poked in the eye himself. Spikes may wear a visor, but if I remember correctly the UGA fullback ran his hands under the guy's facemask and tore his helmet off (don't know if Spikes actually got poked or not).
It was foolish of Spikes to retaliate the way he did and I think he got off light. However, I can totally understand why he lost his cool. I think the baseball analogy is a good one. If you throw at my head enough times, watch out when your cleanup guy comes to the plate.
The bigger story to me in this controversey is how quickly UGA has become a joke of a program. They are starting to remind me of UT when Fulmer started losing his grip.
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Comparing this to Courtney Upshaw is just ridiculous. Do you even know what happened there? Did you see the girls mugshot? Here her dad's statements? It would of been easier (for the press's sake) for Saban to just suspend CU for a game (it would not affected our team that much) but he looked at the situation and decided it wasn't worthy of that. I happen to agree. Now, we don't know the whole story, but Saban does. The parts we do know, did not sound like it warranted a suspension. Both were arrested, not just CU.
Rolando, well I know you probably won't believe it, but he didn't really shove an official, the official was grabbing his arm and he lifted it up and the official kinda went back a little. They threw a flag and it hurt the team. He did not 'shove' him. But again, I'm sure you won't or can't believe that.
What Spikes did was obvious, cruel, and right there for the whole world to see. Retaliation is a pitiful excuse (he does have a shield on HIS facemask). First, if he was retaliating for what the FB did, why is he digging his fingers in the RBs eyes? 1/2 game suspension is a joke. I've said every since the sec champ. game last year when i saw him in person that that guy is a thug, and he is.
and you probably won't believe this either, but if one of our guys did that, i would fully expect him to be suspended for at least a couple of games.
It's called play with class - at least a little. UM apparently doesn't know much about that - both uga and uf coaches are kinda instigating this kinda crap with their foolishness of celebrations and timeouts.
You can't ever count on fans of other teams actually getting "facts" when it relates to any issues about Bama, and the fact they even get (and are even 'encouraged') to post here is the one thing I do not like about this forum, as opposed to others. I have to accept it to keep posting here, and I will.
As most on here have already said, right or wrong, this kinda stuff goes on. The fact the Spikes did this so blatantly, where the cameras could clearly catch it, was amazing. But it is par for the course for Meyer's misfits (how many has he had arrested? 28 in four years?)
If i were in charge of the SEC, i would make sure Spikes never played another down of college football. And if i were the Ga. player, i would file criminal assault charges. There is absolutely no reason for that kind of crap. Hopefully before the season is over he'll be payed back for this by having both of his legs broken. Nothing i've seen in football has made me madder than that.
RTR:biga2:
It would be poetic justice if Spikes were injured on the 1st play in the 2nd half against Vandy.
I don't hope for an injury to any player, just sayin'....
Agreed. Down here, the Palm Beach Post (flaming homers) are excusing the situation all over the place and back and insinuating similar cheap shots prior to the one on film as justification. "Tebow was seen rubbing his eyes". They actually printed that! We have to go back to the observation that if St. Timmy were the one on the ground with a Georgia player freely digging into the halo helmet and all had been captured on film for the world to see....
Gators would have been calling for heads and revolution would have ensued.
I agree that the comparison to Courtney Upshaw was lame. CU went theough the courts and had to go through an anger management program. It is BS that should go before a judge.
This is just a general question. I know that the fans in the stands are subject to the city and state laws, why aren't the players. What I saw on the video was not just a "hard lick" and was more than "getting into the spirit of things". If that happened on the streets or in the stands, someone would take a ride in the back of a police car. Does the D.A. of Jacksonville not have jurisdiction on the playing field? Was this not a witnessed attack?
This is just a general question. I know that the fans in the stands are subject to the city and state laws, why aren't the players. What I saw on the video was not just a "hard lick" and was more than "getting into the spirit of things". If that happened on the streets or in the stands, someone would take a ride in the back of a police car. Does the D.A. of Jacksonville not have jurisdiction on the playing field? Was this not a witnessed attack?
nope, i wouldn't say im a 2 wrongs make a right kind of guy. what he did wasn't right, but it may have been necessary. im simply saying that if the refs continually allow an opposing player to intentionally try to hurt you, then you have to defend yourself. and one of the best ways to do that is to make the opposing player fear for his own safety. there were obvious dirty plays from both teams before the incident. the refs were negligent in allowing it to go without a penalty. i blame the refs as much as i blame the player. it was still a thug play but it got his point across.
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I was going to respond to this post but I met Spikes last night and for some reason I cannot read the post anymore.....
I love how the SEC turned a blind eye as well..... And for PDXgayterd or whatever he is called how dare you come on here and bring up off the field issues do you REALLY want to go there with your teams past?????? What happens off the field is off the field your "thug" did it ON NATIONAL TV ON THE FIELD and admitted he did it and got one of those letters from the SEC that amount to nothing~!~
I love how the SEC turned a blind eye as well..... And for PDXgayterd or whatever he is called how dare you come on here and bring up off the field issues do you REALLY want to go there with your teams past?????? What happens off the field is off the field your "thug" did it ON NATIONAL TV ON THE FIELD and admitted he did it and got one of those letters from the SEC that amount to nothing~!~
Yeah, gator fans do not want to go down that road....they will just embarrass themselves.
lol good catch. :biggrin: but i would say taking care of business yourself versus allowing someone else to steal from you are in slightly different realms of philosophy.
as i said, sometimes 2 wrongs are necessary, but it doesnt make it right.
let me use this analogy- if someone walked up and pimp slapped your wife/gf one single time, would you-
A. Tell him to please don't ever perform that outlandish behavior again or you will tell the authorities.
B. Whip the snot out of him until you were tired.
2 wrongs don't make a right, but I will choose choice B every single time.... and so would almost everyone else on this board.
That's a terrible analogy - a better one would be: if someone walked up and pimp slapped your 230lb athletic buddy one single time, would you-
A. Let your buddy deal with it and/or involve the authorities.
B. Whip the snot out of him until you were tired.
The obvious answer is A unless you're age still ends with 'teen'.
good point. is thirty-teen a number?
if the refs let all that crap happen, and dont throw people out or throw flags, then eventually someone will retaliate. they can either foul the other team in like manner (eye gouging) or they can intentionally go after a knee and end someone's career. i'm not sure what is worse. i just know it isn't good. which is why refs should grow some uhhhhh... manhood.... and crack down on unsportsmanlike behavior instead of letting it go on all game long. i have seen this at every level and in every sport- most fights are caused by refs being too much of a pansy to stop all the crap before it escalates.
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