In the end, it seems like a real-life mole hill in Gainesville had been transformed into an Internet mountain.
At around the same time senior offensive lineman Mike Pouncey was labeling Florida’s entire 2010 recruiting class “cocky” and telling them to “just shut their mouths and play“, a pair of freshmen and their mouths missed a portion of practice after reportedly getting their jocks all wadded up about “something”.
At that point, the rumor mill kicked into hyper overdrive, putting a label on that “something” and spewing out speculation that the unhappy rookie duo — Ronald Powell and Dominique Easley — were quitting the team or transferring or engaging in a hunger strike or entering the priesthood, with the report depending on the time of day and which way the wind was blowing.
The two players were back at practice Wednesday, and were participants in the on-field festivities Thursday as well.
While it’s obvious something happened to force the freshmen into dual hissy fits, if for only a brief period of time, head coach Urban Meyer said after practice yesterday that everything is hunky-dory at Camp Sunshine & Rainbows.
Or, to paraphrase Meyer, it’s all good. Good. Very good. Great, in fact.
“It’s all good,” Meyer said. “They’re doing great. … They missed part of practice (Tuesday), and they’re all good, they’re doing real good. … They’re good. Real good.”
I don’t know Meyer at all on a personal level, but the read I’m getting from the coach in that series of quotes is that Powell and Easley are good. Now.
As far as the transfer rumors go, Meyer vehemently denied that was ever a possibility.
“No, no, no, no, no,” Meyer said. “Never. That transfer word never came out of their mouth. They’re good.”
Well, that’s certainly good to know. And, it seems, the case is closed enough that we can get on to more important issues surrounding the Florida Gators, like the travesty that was John Brantley being forced to shave off his way cool ‘stache.
Oh, one more thing on the frosh subject before we take our leave of this post. Memo to Powell and Easley: grow up and grow a pair already. This ain’t Kansas anymore, Dorothy.
They probably just went back to their dorm rooms and watched their HS highlight films. Like most freshman do when they get their asses handed to them their first camp in college. No big deal. A good cry is good for everyone now and then.
Oh, I almost forgot. PUSSIES!!!!!
I think what Pouncey is trying to convey is the truth. The SEC is full of athletes as good or better than some of the new guys, he’s trying to prepare them for the season. I’ve been in their shoes, thinking practice was tough, humping it thru 2-a-days in August only to find out the games were tougher.
Shut up and play.
Florida is all felons & punks.
led by a backsliding headcoach.
70% of the Gator 4 deep roster is Fr & Sophs. The rest of the team which have paid their dues are more than a little put out with all the FR egos and all their hype strutting around like peacocks. Pouncey and some other Jr & Srs have gone out of their way to lay the wood to these puffed up peacocks. Egos were hurt and now these super hyped frosh have to earn it on the field. These guys are used to being the top dogs their entire athletic lives and now they are on the bottom and have to work hard to get any attention.
If their drive to be the best equals their egos they will be OK. Actions speak louder than words and we will see in short order who will earn playing time and who wants to live on their reputation…….GO GATORS
@ General SCHMUCK
These felons & punks are the same recruits that all the top 10 programs try to sign and all the rest wish they could. There are bad apples in every group. If you look at the arrest reports for the past 4 months there have been punks & felons across the country in all conferences and in most big programs.
You apparently are another one of those “punks” that blab worthless crap because you don’t know how to make a point with facts!
I think Pouncey and other seniors are definitely pushing the freshmen hard, as when game time comes and things really get hard, there is no time for talking, or carrying feelings on their shoulders, but to buckle down and PLAY.
SHOW the gator nation why the GATORS are the best. Push each other and the TEAM will get better. You will all congradulate each other at the end of the season. GO GATORS !
Can’t wait for the Gators to get waxed this year by several teams. If Myer thought it was tough on his body to have the likes of Tebow, Spikes, Hayden etc running the show, just wait til Alabama put 50 on them and Myer retires for a day or two. NO WAY Gators finish in the top 10 this year. I’d take that to the bank. 4+ loss season here we come!
GO GAY-TORS!!!
@Hooker McTitties
You need to answer the door bell before the cops break down your door. After that post you obviously will have to plead guilty to being a crackhead!
The GATORS haven’t given up 50 pts in over 40 yrs & that damn sure won’t happen this yr.
No way the GATORS won’t finish in the top 10.
More than likely the GATORS will be the 1st team to whip Bama twice in the same yr!!!!!
@ Hooker McTitties:
(Great name, strange but good one..LOL!)
If you haven’t encountered Blitz before today, let me put you on notice that he is the PR director for Urban and his “Gators”. As John Taylor states they are from the place of “sunshine and rainbows” and thats all they know is to simply repeat repeat repeat that UF is the greatest place on earth and there is no where else to get an education but the sunshine state.
I have yet to understand why they even bother spending the millions they spend in advertising and recruiting when they are the place of perfection and since that is the case they should have all the finest on their team without having to seek them out. I mean a player should not want to play anywhere else because this is the only place on earth you can get a quality education and win the national championship every year!!
It is ridiculous as it sounds and he knows it, but thats what loyal fans, allumni, and former students do, try to convince everyone else that there is just no place like home! It will take them having a less than perfect season before some people learn otherwise!
I think its odd that Urban was ready to call it quits just 7 months ago, remember had “cardiac issues” that were going to prohibit him from coaching, yea well I’ve been a cardiac nurse for 20 years and he sure as hell got over that heart problem quick, eh? That was just a really good story to come up with as I bet his ass did have all kinds of palpitations since loosing an SEC championship that he and Tebow had just assured the gator nation was certain and denying them that next national championship, just too much for the heart to take at once!!
OH, and Blitz will be true to form and come back and once again recite the same record over and over again it should be a copy and paste by now.
@ Donna
“36 days darling” enjoy it while it lasts
@ Donna
Just for the record–weren’t you wailing on LSU just a couple of weeks ago about them gray shirting players?
Seems it comes out now that Bama is one of the “Pros” at grayshirting per the Atlanta Jounal
Alabama, which has engaged in the practice of oversigning under coach Nick Saban, was bailed out recently when Alfy Hill, a defensive end/outside linebacker from Shallotte, N.C., was denied admission after the NCAA Clearinghouse rejected two online courses he had taken to meet entrance requirements. Hill has since transferred to East Carolina, where he was accepted as a partial qualifier and will have to sit out this season. Meanwhile, Hill’s departure opens the door for 2010 Bama signee Harrison Jones, a tight end who had agreed to grayshirt because the Tide was overbooked. Alabama has found all kinds of creative ways to get down to the NCAA’s maximum number of 85 scholarships, as detailed on the website Oversigning.com.
Oversigning.com is MUST READING.
It tells how Alabama oversigned 11 players for 2010 and how they got rid of 11 to accomodate the 85 scholarship rule. Alabama is the national champ in “more ways than one”…….
@ teblower4848 says:
wonder if they’re still passing around the dead UF students credit card on the football team?
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@blistered4848:
Come out of the sun sweety!!!!! I’ve warned you before that too much son and sea water will cause a chemical inbalance and people will as before assume you’re a crack head!!
I wasn’t wailing about anything as I find that I can root for my team and allow others to root for theirs without feeling threatened. Where I would be guilty of wailing is when people who have grown too accustomed to riding that high horse can’t spew anything else but racial stereotypes, ummm thought I forgot didn’t ya??
It is so easy to start slinging that crap from up high but that just makes the view of the fall by us “little southern folk” all too sweet!
@ Donna
You must have played “dodge ball” growing up.
Nice job of avoiding the gray shirting job by Nick Satan. You did speak in past posts about how it was wrong for schools to not honor the scholarship but yet the athlete was held to his LOI unless the school released him. Would you like for me to scroll back and show you your comments. I summarized them but they were to the effect that it was wrong for schools to do that.
Since Alabama is the not only doing it but are the biggest abusers of this practice is it now OK because it’s Alabama? Just curious
@ General MuckMouth
You are ignorant of the facts as usual. Noone passed a credit card around. A player & his girlfriend were killed in a motorcycle accident. The player’s roommate, a football player used a credit card for 6 months until caught. The player was Jamar Hornsby a soph and he was immediately dismissed from the team and lost his scholarship so the response was immediate.
Ignorant people throw out stuff to make a team look bad and they don’t know what the hell they are talking about. I’m sure you catch my drift.
@ get a life 4848
28 arrests under Urban Meyer speaks for itself
stop trying to blow smoke clown
UF is now UFelony!! facts r facts D-bag