Yeah, but for some perspective, one of the regular posters at the Virtual Swamp
works in the athletic department office and here is what she had to say today
about, as she called him, The Gouger:
"Ok, I gotta weigh in. Just saw The Gouger downstairs and HIS eye is"
bloodshot and puffy. He also lost a chunk of hair and got punched in the
face at least twice. Lots of throat punching went on as well.
Half the team is banged up from extra curricular activity in the pile.
The SEC refs did a poor job of managing this game and Brandon (or the
rest of the team) should never have had to put up with this much abuse before
taking matters into his own hands. Again, I'm not condoning the behavior and
I'm satisfied with the way the athletic department and Spikes have responded
but it's ridiculous to think that Brandon's actions weren't provoked.
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From: Helen Huntley
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 7:55 PM
Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Gators suspend Spikes a half game
for eye gouge [Barlis]
Lots of dirty things go on in those piles, and Spikes obviously was upset
about what happened to him. However,
I think Spikes and the Gators are very fortunate that the Georgia player
(apparently) wasn't injured. Can you imagine the outrage if the situation were
reversed and that was a Georgia player trying to poke Tebow in the eye--and
Tebow was actually injured as a result?
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Shane Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
Gators suspend Spikes a half game for eye gouge
Brian W. Kratzer/The Gainesville Sun
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Brandon Spikes digs his hand inside a Georgia helmet during the third
quarter of the Florida-Georga game at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium Saturday
Oct. 31, 2009.
By Jeff Barlis
Gainesville SUN Staff writer
Published: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 12:27 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 12:27 p.m.
Florida linebacker Brandon Spikes was suspended for gouging the eye of
Georgia tailback Waushaun Ealey on Saturday in Jacksonville. Coach Urban Meyer
on Monday announced the suspension, for the first half of Saturday's game
against Vanderbilt.
"I don't condone (what Spikes did)," Meyer said at his weekly news
conference. "There's no place on the field for that. We're going to suspend him
for the first half of the Vanderbilt game. That's not him. But we love Brandon
Spikes and the team is going to support him.
"It's hard. I just spoke with him not too long ago. We're Florida and we
expect certain things. ... I did speak to the (SEC) commissioner.
"I wanted to move on and then I saw it and said, 'That's not right.' "
The video evidence shows Spikes gouges the eye of Ealey. The incident can
be seen here on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISxU8Crulw
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