I just want anyone's opinion on this subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDOy-RMIpF0

Is this act by Spikes worse than what Legarrette Blount did in Boise? And does the punishment he is receiving fit the crime?

This is just filthy.

According to what I have heard, it was like he was trying to gouge the guys eyes, which IMO is a lot worse than giving a guy a slobberknocker to the jaw. Spikes was playing dirty and got caught, only to get a slight slap on the wrist.

Yeah this is way worse....but of course he plays with the ncaa pride and joy tebow and the gators....if my boy dez gets suspended for a whole year for not saying the right things then spikes should be too....this is prolly not the only time he has done this, its prolly just the first time he has gotten caught.....If the florida coach had any guts he would make sit him out the rest of the year.....

he wouldnt happen to be some of that miami high school talent would he... lol

Thug!! period. He was trying to put a real injury on an unprotected player. I know the scrum gets a bit tough; but this was malicious.

I personally feel that he should've been suspended at least a whole game. They should be up on Vandy big at halftime anyway. It isn't like they are punishing him, just letting the backup get a little more PT. This just as bad as waht Blount did for Oregon and I tip my hat to Chip Kelly and the U of Oregon for sitting him the entire year. It seems it made a statement.

I've been seeing a lot of this lately. There was a high school kid that head butted a player without a helmet the other day. http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2009/10/31/h...ged-head-butt/4 . We all recall Albert Haynesworth and Andre Gurode : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5nlEA8BUTQ . How can we forget LeGarrettte Blount who is being reinstated this weekend ? http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4524682 . This has happened in every part of football since Pop Warner to the NFL.

It happened 100 years ago, and it's going to happen as long as football is being played. Anyone who has played the game has had that are worse happen. I'm not saying it's right. The Alabama fans are calling for a season ending suspension. Well of course they are, they don't want to play against him in the S.E.C. Championship, if they beat L.S.U. .

I think he should have got a three game suspension, not a 1/2 game suspension that he was handed. Since Universities can't fine players, I think he should perform some sort of community service, and issue an apology. We haven't heard any apology.

Those that called in on the two shows that I listen to, said the "The World's largest outdoor cocktail party" should have been called the "World's largest ball room brawl" . I didn't watch that game, but they said there were many infractions happening. The refs just didn't see them.

1/2 a game? are you kidding me? WOW...and to think that alot of people like college football over pro football because they think it has better credibility...so much for that.

Let's see.....the opposing player could have been blinded for life.

Yeah. Sitting out a half against a 30pt underdog sounds about right to me


I agree with the previous poster. Suspend a player a year for lying.......1/2 game for trying to permanently injure
somebody. Sounds like typical NCAA news to me. What a joke punishment by the Florida coach. Is he going to make him write 100 times "I will not try to hurt somebody again" ?

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news...o&type=lgns

I think Spikes was trying to help him get a booger - that's all. Really!

That's a very poor suspension and one that means nothing to Spikes.
You might as well just spit in the runningbacks face too Urban.
You taught him well Urban.
Is he what we call " TO BIG TO FAIL" "TO GOOD TO SUSPEND"
If I had a kid playing for me that did that it would be that last down he played.

And Spikes called OU "dirty"!?

Blount was provoked and Spikes did not appear to be provoked. One had just lost the game and the other is on the #1 team in the country. One was excessive and the other was a mild slap on the hand.

and he has to sit out an ENTIRE half?

There was an article this morning in the LNJ by an AP writer about this. Meyer was notified BY HIS WIFE the night of the incident and the mext morning by his D Coordinator about it and they were both very concerned. Meyer "initial reaction was to move on and forget it".

That's a class act for you right there in Urban Meyer. His star defensive player could've permantly damaged another player for life, and he wants to sweep it under the rug.

Well actually the NCAA didnt take any action against Spikes, it was all Meyer. At least he did something, but a half isnt really punishment enough. If they are going to suspend a player for a year for something he said, they need to be just as harsh on people who are trying to inflict possibly permanent damage.

Everyone should know there is 2 sets of rules...one set for Florida and USC....and the other set for everyone else

It does seem that way sometimes, doesn't it.

pretty much... I don't understand why either... what have Florida and USC done to make them better than anybody else?



Pretty disgraceful all the way around...

Brandon Spikes has apologized to Waushaun Ealey, and Waushaun feels that Brandon shouldn't be suspended. I don't have a problem with the 1/2 game suspension now.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_co...-foul-play.html

Just because you try to injure somebody & fail doesn't make it ok. I've lost a lot of respect for Tebow too with the following comments he made. Excusing bad behavior because of the same is the whine used by everybody. It's always the other guys fault.



Tim Tebow:

When asked whether the Georgia game was dirtier than usual, he said "probably a little bit," but he wouldn't disclose his most horrific moment in the bottom of the pile.

“They wanted to do whatever they can to get an edge," Tebow said. "It happens a lot in college football. It happens more than people think. It’s not something I feel I need to converse about."

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4619952

I dont think Spikes should be punished... I have to agree with Ealey... Its just part of the game...

Get serious. Are you saying that if you were playing the game and was at the bottom of the pile, that you would want someone trying to blind you by ramming his fingers into your eyes?

...yeah, getting irreparable damage to your precious eyesight is "just part of the game".

Sorry, I find that to be just plain stupid. JMHO...

And I don't care if others are doing it or not (Ealey is probably a thug himself, thus his attitude that it's OK), it is still a thuggish type of behavior that, if unchecked, would lead to more and more of the same, ruining the game, IMO.

I agree with BlackwellSooner........I like smash mouth football......but what Spikes did was criminal.

I know Spikes isn't the first and probably won't be the last to pull something like that.

Tougher punishments would get it Out of the game.

That should Not be part of the game!

I've gotta take exception to part of your post, db. What Spikes did was MUCH worse than what Blount did. Sure, depending on your mindset, Blount cheap-shotted the Boise player, but a blow to the jaw isn't likely to do any further damage than a loosened tooth and some loss of dignity. Spikes, OTOH, was maliciously trying to injure someone's eyesight! No comparison, IMO.

I agree with the rest of your post...

I have had my eyes poked/scratched/clawed at the bottom of a pile... Ive done some eye scratching myself... But Id rather somebody try to poke me in the eye then cheap shot me running down the field...

And how many eye clawing injuries have cost somebody their career...

Its all part of the game...

Walk around blindfolded for a week & see how you feel.

there are two physical contacts that are outlawed in every sport...even UFC...blows below the belt, and eye gouging...they have good reason for that too...you are an ignorant piece of trash if you think it's ok to eye gouge someone.

that's like saying it's ok to punch someone in the #### at the bottom of a pile...

i don't think the ealey kid sayin this was thuggish at all...i think it is a sign of him being intimidated and young (freshman). maybe he felt like if spikes got punished hard that it may turn around on him...idk...that's kind of the way i took it.

Wow, now the suspension is all the way up to a full game. Meyer is such a strong disciplarian, NOT.

Just take away my glasses...

And Spikes... Suspends hisself for the Entire game (What a Thug)... He must have been reading Smoaky... You haters...


http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4623708

against vandy...do you think he would of "suspended himself" against 'bama? he can tell everyone that he deserves to be suspended the entire game because by the time he is able to play UF will be up by 30 and he will be on the bench anyway...

Exactly, this kind of conduct has no place in the game of football and tougher punishments would take care of it for good. By tougher punishment I mean your through for x number of games and are not elligible to play in a bowl game. Something like that.
The leader of the team is the coach. The kids do what the coach allows them to do. His weak disipline of the offender is a testimony to the way he really feels about the offense. From his punishment one has to conclude that he doesn't really think it's that big of a deal.

Next thing you know he will be biting ears... Oh wait that will come Vs Bama. If he was on any other team other than USC he would be out for the year. NO DOUBT. Thats just pure NCAA babying their baby. What IF he would have lost an eye? NCAA going to wait for it to happen?

Yeah... So many football players across the country loose an eye playing football...

But There was No Flag... So he did nothing wrong... So there should be no Punishment...

And If there was a flag... They would review it... And Wave it off... Florida does no wrong!!!

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4622769

OMG... What a Thug... I wonder if that guy is going to sit out the next game...

I just seen where they now changed the suspension to a whole game, but its still not severe enough to me....

you sound like a thug yourself...i would prolly need to wear protective goggles if i was involved in a game of touch football with you.

Id probably need to wear a cup if I was involved in a game of touch football with some of you pansies!!!