Meyer Shows True Core Values By Reinstating Rainey

[Liberal_Dog]

Florida coach Urban Meyer, who let talented touchdown-maker Chris Rainey return to practice this week -- one month after Rainey threatened his girlfriend's life -- talks about players like family. They're his children. His sons. In real life, of course, Urban Meyer has a son of his own, and he has two daughters. And so, for a change, I want him to think about this:

Don't think of Chris Rainey as his son.

Think of Chris Rainey's girlfriend as his daughter.

Rainey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor stalking after sending the following text message to his girlfriend: "Time to Die B-tch."

Is Chris Rainey back at practice this week if he'd sent that to Meyer's daughter?

We'll never know, and good for that. I don't wish ill will on Meyer or his family, but I do wish the single most visible man at Florida -- my alma mater, if you didn't know -- would stop embarrassing UF grads like me who wonder why he's considered such a strong leader when in reality he's weak. Soft. Pathetic.

Meyer cares only about winning games, and if he'd stand there and tell the world, "I care only about winning games," then I could live with it. I'd still be embarrassed that a dangerous cretin like Chris Rainey was allowed to represent my school so soon after telling a woman that it was time to die, b-tch -- but I could live with Meyer being true to who Meyer is, which is a cutthroat coach concerned not with his players or his university, but with his career winning percentage and the $24 million contract that comes with it.

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I suppose that this is not really all that surprising. The same sort of thing used to happen at my high school back in Oklahoma. The football players would get away with just about anything.

But it is still sickening.

[Scurrilous]

1. Two losses in a row will do that to you. n/t

[joeybee12]

2. If rainey wasn't a starter...

Meyer would have kicked him off the team for good...what a hypocrite.

[1gobluedem]

3. Setting the precedent so Dantonio can reinstate Chris L. Rucker at MSU

Even though he was involved in the Rather Hall fight, convicted in the Rather Hall fight, given 12 months probation, and told to refrain from drugs or alchohol as part of that probation, he was picked up for drunk driving Saturday night. The county probation officer is recommending a 21 day jail sentence for violating the terms of his probation and Dantonio announced a zero tolerance policy for the players he reinstated after the fight (all starters, by the way). Rucker is suspended for one game so far. Will he get kicked off the team? Will he have to serve this sentence during the season?

My prediction: one more game suspension, reinstated, allowed to serve his sentence after the season ends. Just like Scott Skiles.