There are reports that a lot of players, including Tebow, went out to dinner to celebrate Steve Wilk's birthday. A good number of them went out for drinks afterward, including Dunlap. Some of the sources also say that this wasn't an isolated event - that all year long there had been players going out on Monday nights (their day off from football) for drinks.
In and of itself, that's probably no big deal, but we hear that the Alabama players kept to a strict curfew the week before the game with no complaints. If all of the above is true it could help explain why one team looked so much more focused than the other on Saturday. I'm not one to deny any of these guys any part of the college experience, but I believe that greatness in any field comes with a lot of sacrifice. Perhaps the weight of expectation was too much for some of them to bear. --- On Wed, 12/9/09, jfranl <[email protected]> wrote: I can't remember if anyone has this take on Dunlap. Perhaps there were many others at the party and he is the only one that got caught and the others played so bad because they felt guilty that they did not fess up or drive him home. That is what my brother thinks that might have happened. Fran -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
