Urban Meyer RULES WITH FISTS OF JUSTICE AND STEEL!!!!!!!!!

/complete and utter sarcasm

Sad on so many levels. That play was worse than what Mr. Blount did at Boise State, and deserves to be gone the rest of the season, including whatever bowl game they end up going to.

I like how you left this out "Spikes was retaliating after getting his eye poked earlier in the game, Meyer said Monday. " I am not saying he should not be punished but at lest we know why, and I bet he doesn't play the whole game.

If the NCAA starts handing out season long suspensions for what goes on in a dog pile there will be no one left to play a game for any team. That is the dirtiest place to be on earth I have been poked, scratched, punched, kicked, spit on and even bit. It's an ugly part of the game but a part none the less. Stuff like this happens in every pile in every game. 

Spikes deserves a suspension how long is up to the powers to be.

Here's the alleged eye gouge that Spikes was talking about... you can watch it for yourself and decide if it was the same. But if you take of your homer glasses for a sec, you'll realize that it was completely unintentional... nothing like when Spikes reached INTO the players helmet and dug around for an eyeball. Not even close, nice try.

I was wondering when you would chime in couldn't resist could you. If you take your hatred glasses off you will see that I agree it was a bull Sh!t move and he should get punished for it.

Just for future reference....

Blatant Eye Gouging = 1/2 game suspension
Sucker Punching an Opposing Player = Season Long Suspension

Remember boys and girls, if you're gonna take a cheap shot, go with the eye gouge. 

And the SEC has stated that they are okay with this suspension. 

The SEC - You won't leave here with an education or morals, but damnit you'll be able to play football no matter what you do.

Rodney Roddy Piper and Ric Flair were not impressed.

more like eyegouging 5 yard penalty repeat 2nd down. heck its part of the game one dude talks about your mama and so you eyegouge him like the water boy

Unfortunately, I'm right there with you. 

Especially not impressed with the butchery of Rowdy Roddy Piper's name.

Perhaps Spikes thought the Gators were playing LSU and he was, in fact, going for (cue Survivor on the cassette deck!)  The Eye Of The Tiger....

Thank You!  I'll be here all week! Remember the 10 o'clock show is completely different from the 8 o'clock show! Enjoy the veal!

Bing that's a-

I knew that looked wrong but for some reason I thought "No, that's right".

WWF Fail on my part.

Nothing to be ashamed of there.

Since they didn't already screw Arkansas enough a few weeks back against Florida, I'm sure the SEC is prepared to suspend a Razorbacks player in Spikes' place.

he wears a visor.... take off your orange and blue glasses. eye gouging on a player with a visor? dear god..

i love the weak precedent that "slime" has set in accepting this kind of punishment... good lord is the SEC an embarrassing conference..

Feel free to leave and take Lame Kiffin and rest of the VOL nation with you.

I have never noticed a visor until after he got poked, not that I paid that much attention to his face mask anyway.

funny how matt millen, steve young and mike golic all agree that this suspension is pathetic and laughable... you gator fans are the only ignorant bastards that truly believe spikes did nothing wrong and its "part of the game" those were 3 NFL PLAYERS saying that. Wake up and quit acting like UF is the saint of all programs... do i have to bring up the 25 arrests under meyer or are you finally gonna accept urban as a slimeball that has little to no ethics.

he's always worn a visor i was at the game last year too and that hit on moreno in the back field was literally right in front of me as i was 2 rows from the field at that yard line. i remember him getting up with a visor on and wondering why he needs one

PLEASE stop lumping all Gator fans into one group.  I have stated on here earlier that I think the half-game suspension is ridiculous. 

sorry but being a ut fan ive been getting confronted by gator fans today for some reason in my marketing class... lord knows why but every single one of them was calling spikes innocent. there are good gator fans but this kid is simply retarded in trying to defend or justify in any way what happened at that game. (no i didnt not spark the conversation with them about spikes )

Ok dude until know I have taken what you say with a grain of salt now you are just down right ignorant. I agree that the half a game suspension is BS and so do most every one I know, but it is a part of the game and happens more then you want to believe.
 
Yes lets bring up the arrest it happens on every campus and for every team every year stupid kids doing stupid things. They were dealt with and several were kicked off the team no different then what happened at PSU or FSU.

You say Meyer is a slime ball with no ethics are you serious. I do believe it is your Lame KIffin who likes to spread lies, talk shit, and violate NCAA rules. I guess we now know who was telling the truth about the Raiders I never thought it would actually be Al Davis. I feel bad for Monte I know he did not raise him to be such a douche.

here we go with all the gator haters! because they are #1 and so tough if a key player even farts outloud some is gonna call for a suspension!! the eye gouge wasn't and didn't look that serious so i don't understand what the big deal is.

cause saying something at a booster event, using a FOG machine and saying ing the same thing every coach and media outlet, pro, former pro, and fan base outside of gainesville but saban and urban have done in complaining about terrible officiating is sooooooo unethical. Heres the difference... a player throws a tantrum on the sidelines and his ass was kicked off. Brandon Spikes attempts to gouge a guy and gets a half a game. Im loving ESPN laughing at your pathetic excuse of a punishment.

IT IS NOT PART OF THE GAME. IT IS A THUG CULTURE WITHIN THE GAME THAT DOESNT NO DEFINE IT.  there is no situation where that is acceptable... oh it happens ive been at the bottom of a pile but its not part of the game and to spew such garbage is the true ignorance.

I hope you are not talking about me, for one I am no kid and two no one is saying what he did was right, like I said what he did was BS and he deserves more then a half game suspension. My problem is people like you who are going nuts about it like it's the first time it's ever happened in a game before, but because it's the Gators and they are #1 every one has an opinion

Mat Millen knows about as much about football as my 7 year old daughter, Young is a pu$$y and mike Golic is as dumb as a box of rocks.

Here we go with all the "My team is the best in the world, they can not do any wrong". An eye gouge is extremely serious as many players of sports from football to basketball to rugby leave with either losing an eye or going completely blind from either accidental or purposeful gouges.

I get the argument of "this kinda thing used always happens in dog piles", yes, it used to. With all the cameras surrounding all games trying to capture all angles of a game, and it picks up something like this, no matter the player, no matter the team - that player should be suspended the same amount of time, and with an action like Spikes' it should be for a long time.

If you think it's just "your" team that gets all the blame, same goes for the Michigan lineman who went for a low blow on an Illionois' player, in which Scott brought up earlier, and I have the same viewpoint that he better get a suspension for as classless of a move and while I'm not too confident in Rich Rod's ethics, I gotta believe he suspends his player longer than one half.

I don't care about the you vs. Hedo crap up above, but to say Matt Millen knows as much football as a 7 year old is beyond ridiculous. Yes, he had an awful, awful career as President/CEO in Detroit, and that's being nice - but, he was also an 11-year NFL player who had nothing but huge reviews over and over again from fellow teammates and opponents about his knowledge of the game. Same crap about Young and Golic, not one NFL player (some kickers and punters aside) are far, far away from being a, what you call "pu$$y". Make a better argument than trying to discredit guys who have played in the NFL and have done nothing but breathe football since they were in high school.

I have been playing, watching and coaching football since before you were born so don't try to tell me it's not part of the game. It's ugly but it's a part of it and if you get caught you deserve to get punished for it. We all agree the punishment was BS what we disagree on is why it's such a big deal. Scott and Cheif mention the ILL. and Michigan incident but their is not five articles and a million post about it because it's not Florida and not the #1 team. I am not defending Spikes I am defending the Gators

That was really just a jab at least at Young and Golic, Millen on the other hand I stand by my comment.

Is Meyer in a contest with Rich Rod for who can give the crappiest suspension?

I'm wondering if Urban Meyer would've had a different type of punishment had this been some 2nd or 3rd string player who isnt as important to the team like Brandon Spikes is.  The way I see it, as long as football rules the school and pays the bills at Florida, Urban Meyer will never do anything to jeopardize his chances of winning another national championship by severely suspending one of his stud players.  Urban Meyer may be a helluva recruiter and a great coach but he really dropped the ball on this one

Yeah. He was one of my favorites though when I was a wee lad watching WWF on Saturday mornings. I even tried his moves on my brother until he told on me and I got in trouble.

u vols fans are a bunch of cry babies,sounds like it. go bucs

we have the wins that count and the coach who has got them there so u are the one with no ethics,

I think you may be confused as to what ethics are.  You can never win a game in your life and be extremely ethical, mostly because success (or lack thereof) has nothing to do with ethics.

 I'm not really sure how winning contributes to being an ethical program.

Also having Urban Meyer as your coach certainly doesn't grant you any favors in that area either.

You people really can't stand it when some one you don't like is on the top. It just eats you up don't it, so you try to make your self feel better by digging up as much dirt and talking as much sh!t as you can about that team or person and people call Gator fans classless.

I live in Florida and I am surrounded by two of the most obnoxious fan bases in the world in FSU and MIami. For years I had to endure the U and their we are the greatest team in the world mentality and FSU fans and their we are better then you and the Gators suck bashing. Never once did I go around crying like little girls and spewing anything I could find on them ( and there was a lot to find) to make my self feel better. They were the better team and as much as I hated it I respected their programs and what they had accomplished. Now that the Gators are on top it has become a free for all. So sad.

I don't care if the Gators are rated 1,2, or even 3...the fact is there for all to see...or in the case of who he did this to maybe not see.  If this guy was on any of the other top teams or whoever is in last place with 0 wins;he needed to be suspended for more than a mere 30 minutes.  He did it and he tried to hurt the guy,only thing he did right  was he owned up to it.  He needs to be suspended  the rest of the year.  AND any playoffs or bowl games the Gators go to.
Yeah it is sad...that you could defend such a player.

Or maybe people just think that someone should get suspended for more than 1 half for trying to gouge out someone's eyes. Just saying.

Gouging out eyeballs is part of the game??? I'm sorry, but is there a section of the rulebook that defines how poking guys' eyeballs on the bottom of the pile is allowed? If it is part of the game, you should be furious that he is suspended for even a half! The fact is that it isn't "part of the game". It is cowardly and it is against the rules. Simply because it sometimes happens doesn't make it part of the game. Drunk driving happens. It doesn't make it part of the driving experience, however.

I'm not going to bind all Florida fans together because I've seen some who say they are embarrassed by this, but I just can't imagine how anyone can justify these actions of this joke of a punishment.  Brandon Spikes attempted to permantly disable another human being.  That's not overstating what happened either.  Its reality. Its disgusting and despicable and it does not make the University of Florida look good when they have essentially sanctioned this kind of conduct.  The school should be embarrassed.

I think what bothers me most is that because this happened on a field its somehow more acceptable.  Had this happened off the field I have a feeling we'd be even more outraged over this. Either way, the University of Florida has lost respect from me and many other fans. Top players tend to get protected, but at least other schools would attempt to make it look like they cared about what happened on the field.

OK lets get this clear Spike's actions were despicable and he deserves a stiffer penalty no argument here from me I thought I made that clear but you people seemed to have missed that.

In reference to Pat I was talking about the shots being taken at Meyer and the program because they are on the top Prior to all of this as well as this you are the worst one of them all.

Now IlliniBob No it's not right and I don't condone it but it is part of the game and happens more then you want to admit. I am Mad he only got  half a game he should have got more . My problem is with people lose there minds over it because it's the Gators and they are #1 stuff like this happens in just about every game and it's a blip on the radar screen Because it's the #1 ranked Gators that every one seems to hate and there are people coming out of the wood works to put there two cents in. That is what I think is sad.

 Kantwistaye I am embarrassed over this and disgusted. I disagree with you though on him trying to permanently disable another human being, He may have been trying to hurt him but permanently blind him I don't think so. You really think he stuck his hand in there and was thinking I am going to put his eyes out and blind this kid for life. It doesn't lessen the severity of what he did it was nasty and cheap and think god the kid didn't get hurt.

I think Florida earns a little respect from me for even suspending him in the first place and not just ingnoring it like they could have. No one has hated the SEC the past few weeks as much as me but I am somewhat impressed.

Youve been doing that since before i was born... yet you discredit three former NFL players in their thoughts on this even though they have been more exposed, dedicated, and showed more love for the game than you could ever imagine. IT IS NOT PART OF THE GAME period. Period. There's a reason people are sickened by this act. Not because its part of the game, i promise you. Look at it from the other side in, if Ealey gets his eye damaged because Spikes poked dirt, grass, and an enormous amount of pressure on such a delicate part of the body then it seems like too little too late for Ealey. That would have ruined his career and it would have given him a tremendous amount of hardship the rest of his life... yet that means nothing to you because its part of the game. You sat there and said its punishable.... but its part of the game. You contradict your self every post. i find more validity in Golics comments than you sorry.. he played in the nfl.. youre a fat former HS player that thinks he knows football more than former NFL players.Sorry no merit.

Clearly you have not been watching that much because your attention to mild detail is atrocious. Such as your caption wearing a visor. For the last 3 years you have not noticed ONCE that he wears one? what do you do when football is on tv? cross your eyes? kiss your life size tebow cardboard cut out? I'm not a fan of the gators yet im aware of that. But i disgress (just couldnt believe you didnt notice thats all)

Regarding the Mich incident... the same thing applies... no one is denying that. What people are pissed about though is that there is an alleged controversy in showing favoritism in the SEC by Mike Slive. Its been said all season that Slive will do whatever to make sure that UF and UA end up in the SECCG with 0 losses. Im not saying I agree with that but its looking more and more legit as the season goes on and the events pile up.

This clearly shows how intelligent Meyer is.  All this discussion would have been adverted if he would have made it a game suspension.  After all, it's Vandy.  Would F U really miss him?

Listen here you dude, I was taking a shot at some guys a really don't like you know a jab, rib whatever you want to call it. If you think I was being serious about that wake up. Like i am the first guy to take a shot at a former NFL player turned commentator
 
OK it's not part of the game but it happens in every game maybe not and eye rake but cheap shots and nastiness going on at  the bottom of a pile. apparently you and everybody else seem to think I mean it's part of the rules or it's how you play the Game, Wrong it is ugly nasty and completely unsportsmanlike but it happens there for it has unfortunately become part of the Game like it or not that's a fact. You seem to miss the fact that I think Spikes should be suspended for more then a half and I am disgusted by his actions as well as relived the kid did not get hurt. 

Don't try to tell me I don't care about the kid possibly losing an eye dude You don't know anything about me. I lost my right eye at work April of this year I know what hardship that brings and how difficult it is to adjust and move on. I would not wish that on anyone and I am appalled by what Spikes did even though I do not believe his intentions were to permanently blind the kid.

Now on your third point the key word is alleged and the only people saying it or either Gator haters or SEC haters

And they're playing Vandy for cryin' out loud! They will not miss having Spikes in this game AT ALL.  In fact, he has missed all or a part of several games this season due to injuries.  Dumb decision by Meyer and the SEC....

 You don't unintentionally rip a guy's helmet off while poking him in the eye. Get real man. Why is there no outcry against Georgia and their eye poker?

Many Gator fans are embarassed by Meyer's decision.  Hopefully more punishment will occur behind the scenes than the joke of a 1/2 game suspension.  That's all I can say. 

The SEC looking the other way is something else that is being overlooked.  The Big Ten has suspended players for a game this year for instances far less worse then intentionally eye gouging... OSU's stud defensive player Kurt Coleman comes to mind after a late hit penalty towards the end of there game against Illinois.  No disrespect to Vandy, but I'm surprised that the SEC didnt invoke at least a game suspension against Spikes knowing who they were playing this week.

I agree!

Not the only people saying it but i digress on this topic since Ealey seems to not care about the incident and thinks spikes shouldnt be suspended... is this someone telling him to say that for good pr? i dont know but i find it hard to be as mad about it now that ealey doesnt care.

no but winning does contribute to being ethical and urban meyer has ethics all the way to the national championship, no red here,just orange and blue

not true at all. in fact that is an incredibly ignorant statement.