Comments on: UF ATHLETES TRYING TO RUN THE CAMPUS

By: ChompEmGators

ChompEmGators — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:25:04 +0000

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.

By: dragonash

dragonash — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:16:15 +0000

I thought they all ready ran the campus.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:01:19 +0000

This sounds kind of douchebaggish.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:47:24 +0000

I said “athletes” in the post above, I meant “celebrity athlete”–most tennis players I know would run circles around me, for sure.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:40:57 +0000

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.

By: trot

trot — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:00:40 +0000

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”?

“We’re going to win. We’re the athletes. People are going to vote for us,” Sherry said.

Sherry, a UF tennis player, is making a bid for Student Body president – taking on Swamp Party candidate John Boyles and the Unite Party’s Jared Hernandez.

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.

By: Newspaper Hack

Newspaper Hack — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:21:09 +0000

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]

By: Mark Twain

Mark Twain — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:24:59 +0000

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.

By: Stranko Montana

Stranko Montana — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:20:50 +0000

They can’t all be interesting… what we need is some more action in the Fulmer Cup race.

By: Stranko Montana

Stranko Montana — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:56:58 +0000

Some of which may in fact be true… now I have said too much and I must move to Idaho.

By: Mark Twain

Mark Twain — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:56:01 +0000

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.

By: TheAmazingYant

TheAmazingYant — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:40:05 +0000

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.

By: ChompEmGators

ChompEmGators — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:13:38 +0000

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.

By: ChompEmGators

ChompEmGators — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:09:17 +0000

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?

By: Jim K

Jim K — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:25:39 +0000

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.