UF ATHLETES TRYING TO RUN THE CAMPUS
Perhaps inspired by Garrett Bushong’s desire to run the Purdue Campus, several UF athletes, including Tim Tebow and Brandon Siler, are staging a coup on the UF campus. The MVP party, as the athlete party is so called, is trying to use their celebrity status to get win control of the Student Government which has a colossal budget of 11 Million bucks to spend. Taking on SEC defenses may be tough, but these athletes may find out that taking on Florida Blue Key might be even tougher.
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Now it’s time for everyone’s favorite game . . . The $100,000 Name That Contradiction!
Stranko, I can name that contradiction in two quotes:
“We’re going to win. We’re the athletes. People are going to vote for us,” Sherry said.
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“We’re not trying to prove we’re better than anyone,” he said.
Woohoo! I’ll e-mail you in a few minutes and let you know where you can send my check.
Comment by Doug — January 30, 2006 @ 1:34 pm
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Let’s just hope Timmy T. doesn’t have to give too many public speeches. Home-schooling wasn’t kind to his social/speaking skills.
Sorry, sour grapes here.
Comment by Free Logan Young — January 30, 2006 @ 2:04 pm
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come one now, free. i have a feeling that reported 890 SAT score has more to do with his public speaking than his home schooling. i’ve heard that he is a great public speaker when the holy spirit has him speak in tongues.
Comment by adam — January 30, 2006 @ 2:18 pm
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Hey, if anyone out there has heard about the Cossimi incident recently, this is welcome news. Here’s what happened (from my perspective): Cossimi, UF’s treasurer elected in the spring of last year, received an I in some class. She never got it corrected, and by the fall it became an E. This dropped her GPA under the paltry 2.0 or 2.5 required for SG participation. So an administrator informed her that she had to resign. This is where it gets ridiculous/scandalous/normal for UF’s SG. All of this is going on out of the public view. Then, out of nowhere, Cossimi resigns without explanation. It later comes to light that Cossimi is dealing with personal problems, and wnats some time to herself. Then, within days, the SG senate holds a meeting where new nominees for treasurer will be voted on. As it turns out, Cossimi nominated herself and a few lackeys from the treasurer’s office (her underlings, and also the only other nominees - of the two or three nominated, al least one dropped put before the vote). Lo and behold, Cossimi gets elected unanimously. Apparently this scheme worked. And while it doesn’t really scream dishonesty or malfeasance, it sure reeks of them. Shit, as long the athletes get the non-greeks to vote, it’ll be an improvement.
Comment by Jim K — January 30, 2006 @ 2:25 pm
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I actually ran for president of the student body in 1997 under the “Honest” party, formerly the “Missing in Action” party. Ran against that dousche McGovern and his cronys (except for Terry Jackson who was a nice enough guy), and managed to get 10% of the vote in the largest voter turnout ever. The next year I ran my cat, Roy.
Is Blue Key involved with this new startup party at all, or are they truly the opposition? This puts FBK and the Greeks in an interesting quandry… do they bitch and complain about the MVP party turning the election into purely a popularity contest, thus highlighting their own hypocrisy?
Comment by ChompEmGators — January 30, 2006 @ 4:09 pm
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BTW, Tebow will not be able to run for one of the top 3 positions as a freshman, unless the rules have changed. You must have a full year under your belt.
Comment by ChompEmGators — January 30, 2006 @ 4:13 pm
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I honestly am not sold on whether or not the MVP party is going to work or not. I would like to think that most students here are too smart to vote on jocks. Probably won’t matter anyways, as the Greeks will vote for themselves as usual, and the rest of the student body historically wouldn’t vote if their lives depended on it. Personally, until they open up internet voting in student elections (which they won’t do), I don’t plan on participating.
On another note, I took a class from Grapski, the guy who sued FBK. He sued Bernie Machen over some paperwork or something, that Bernie aparently didn’t want to release (He had to disclose whatever the hell Grapski wanted, under Florida law). He’s a real flaky guy, and a horrible instructor. He hates Blue key to the point of drawing up oddball conspiracy theories about them.
Comment by TheAmazingYant — January 30, 2006 @ 4:40 pm
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Wow we really need college football to start back up soon. Can we petition for a winter league? As much as I liked Strankos quotes are we really that worried about the SG at UF. I guess yall locked down such a recruiting class yall can worry about everything else now huh.
Comment by Mark Twain — January 30, 2006 @ 4:56 pm
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Some of which may in fact be true… now I have said too much and I must move to Idaho.
Comment by Stranko Montana — January 30, 2006 @ 4:56 pm
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They can’t all be interesting… what we need is some more action in the Fulmer Cup race.
Comment by Stranko Montana — January 30, 2006 @ 5:20 pm
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Im guessing Fulmer Cup action will slow down because of winter workouts that follow signing day. But maybe the boys will just get wilder on the weekend.
Comment by Mark Twain — January 30, 2006 @ 5:24 pm
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Still, nothing compares to the den of rats that is, and has been, The Machine at Alabama. Hell — they beat both George Wallace and Joe Scarborough. Just beating Wallace, even if it was for Kindergarten class president, means you have to be some power-hungry sonsabitches.
SGA elections have been marred by violent assaults and death threats in the past, resulting in an FBI investigation, a cover story expose in Esquire magazine in April 1992, and national media coverage from CNN and USA Today. [via Wikipedia]
Comment by Newspaper Hack — January 30, 2006 @ 6:21 pm
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WAIT.. am I missing something? I went to Texas, so you’ll have to excuse me.. but since when did being a college tennis player count as being a celebrity, or even an “athlete”?
Besides this Sherry fellow, I can name exactly ZERO college tennis players in the history of college tennis. I hope this guy chokes and dies nameless. Or at least doesn’t get elected.
Comment by trot — January 30, 2006 @ 7:00 pm
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Trot, it’s the University of Florida. Tennis players and swimmers are actually considered athletes. And the swim team deserves it, considering most of the first team swims for the US in the Olympics, and the second teamers swim for other countries like Spain.
Comment by Nate — January 30, 2006 @ 7:40 pm
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I said “athletes” in the post above, I meant “celebrity athlete”–most tennis players I know would run circles around me, for sure.
Comment by Nate — January 30, 2006 @ 7:47 pm
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This sounds kind of douchebaggish.
Comment by Kevin — January 30, 2006 @ 8:01 pm
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I thought they all ready ran the campus.
Comment by dragonash — January 31, 2006 @ 8:16 am
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hey TheAmazingYant (#7), Grapski had a legitimate beef with FBK… while he was running for prez, McGovern, Peter Velcek (a real scumbag who hung around FBK and ran the dirty side of it in the background) and others in FBK posted flyers all over campus saying that Grapski was a child molestor. They took a police report and doctored it to include the charge then posted flyers all over the place anonymously. FBK settled out of court, McGovern and Velcek were ordered to pay him millions of $$. I went to 3 or 4 of the days of the trial.
Comment by ChompEmGators — January 31, 2006 @ 1:25 pm