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November 2, 2009

SPIKES SUSPENDED FOR HALF OF VANDY GAME

We’re still Alphabeticalizing, but this needs mentioning: Spikes has been suspended for the first half of the Vandy game by Meyer. Commence overreaction in both directions, please.

121 Responses to “SPIKES SUSPENDED FOR HALF OF VANDY GAME”

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Pandemonium Reigns says:

Does no one else think DHC’s incessant demands to UGA fans to “go get your shinebox” as fucking stupid as me?

A. It’s still no funnier even after repeating it three times. Plus it really relegates you to message board moron status.

B. It’s seriously dated. I mean, it’s a line from Goodfellas. It’s a great movie but it came out in 1990. Seriously, find some new material, man.

C. Finally, you seem to be using it wrong anyway. In the movie, Billy Batts is busting Tommy DeVito’s balls, just kidding around with him talking about how he used to be able to shine shoes really well as a kid. Tommy DeVito gets pissed and says he doesn’t shine any more and so on and evenutally kills Batts when he says “go home and get your fucking shinebox” as a final insult to him. In the scenario you present, wouldn’t Billy Batts be Georgia and Tommy DeVito be Florida since Florida used to be Georgia’s “shineboy” back in the day? Now of course Florida doesn’t shine any more, correct?

November 2nd, 2009 at 6:08 pm
102

Sutpen says:

still don’t understand the fuss on either side. Spikes got caught pulling a bush-league stunt. don’t see how that doesn’t cross the line into thuggishness, i.e. something you’re embarrassed to see on the team you cheer for. nor should this incident deflect from Georgia’s crappy game, crappy season, and crappy direction of the program.

November 2nd, 2009 at 6:23 pm
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Stacy Kiebler Luvs Me says:

1/2 Game Vandy Penalty Dept:

Giving Spikes half game off seems like a reward rather than a penalty.

Why waste time, effort and risk of injury against Vandy?

November 2nd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
104

El Kabong!!! says:

Oh yeah, I’m sure he was just rubbing spit back in his face.

Orson, you’re the winner. I hope you have a keyboard in braille. It would be a shame to see such a promising career ended on something so stupid as people defending Brandon Spikes’ action in the game, instead of saying, “Wow, that was dumb on his part. He shouldn’t have done that.”

November 2nd, 2009 at 6:58 pm
105

Mr.Pelican Pants says:

I vote for Spikes being suspended for the SECCG. Can I get a second? And suspend Tim Tebow, his roommate/life partner, and a random fast black dude.

November 2nd, 2009 at 7:29 pm
106

Daniel Day Lewis says:

All you stupid Meyer cocksmokers are missing the point….By him only giving Spikes a half-game suspension (and the SEC agreeing with it), he and Mike Slive have virtually guaranteed blood-shed in next year’s game. Spikes will be long gone, but Ealey will be there and have the rest of the Dawgs ready. We have Idaho State next year following the WLOCP, so none of the players are gonna give a damn about missing a half. Next year, when the eye-gouge is being returned, I want to hear absolutely no bitching coming from the gators here.

November 2nd, 2009 at 8:18 pm
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Sparrow says:

I feel like I lurk around here on a fairly regular basis. I see the same names pop up in the reply sections, I get to know what to expect from one poster or another. And of course there are always new people and anonymous people to keep me from expecting everything. Nonetheless (and if I missed this in the past, I apologize), I had no idea that Daniel Day Lewis was a Dawg. And to think, to this point we’d been hanging our hats on that blonde lady on 20/20 or whatever news-o-tainment program it was… I guess I’m kind of glad that Spikes fondled Ealey now.

November 2nd, 2009 at 9:02 pm
108

zzgator says:

If the refs had seen this there would’ve been a 15 yard penalty. Possibly ejection and suspension for the first half of the next game. Since they didn’t see it he should be punished more?

There are actually rules governing in-game misbehavior and corresponding punishment. Some here want to get torches and pitchforks…rules be damned.

November 2nd, 2009 at 9:16 pm
109

NRBQ says:

I’m sure anyone with a website, who’s never been poked in the eye by a 240-pound workout/weightlifter freak, would be as ambivalent and blase’ as Orson about this minor dust-up.

November 2nd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
110

Mich-Placed Gator says:

….Spikes gets a half game for brushing grass off some puppy’s cheek.

FUCK YOU MIKE GOLIC, and rest of you MUTHA FUCKING IDIOTS….precedence was set in 2003 by Jim Tressel and the Big 10….

Ohio State Buckeyes linebacker Robert Reynolds chokes Wisconsin Badgers quarterback Jim Sorgi, injuring Sorgi’s trachea, after the play had been whistled dead. Sorgi was unable to play for the remainder of the game, struggling to breathe and unable to speak.

Midway through the third quarter, Sorgi scrambled for an eight-yard gain before being brought down by a convergence of OSU tacklers. After the play was called dead, Reynolds crushed Sorgi’s throat with his hand as Sorgi lay on his back. Sorgi’s vocal cords were bruised, he had a hard time breathing, and he was unable to speak. He would not return to the game. Reynolds was not whistled for a foul. The Badgers came back to win the game.

After the game, Big Ten commissioner James Delany commented, “(Reynolds’ actions) have no place in our game.” Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel said “Robert’s conduct was totally unacceptable and has no place in intercollegiate athletics.” Ohio State suspended Reynolds for one game and Reynolds issued a public apology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEZw_aZBuPY

November 2nd, 2009 at 10:06 pm
111

Crabapple Buck says:

Here is what I have gathered from this comments on this post

Florida fans – It’s just another case of THE MAN keepin’ us down! That Corch Meyer is harsh!

Georgia fans – Wait til we get even next year! They should have kicked him out of the SEC! Sieze him!

November 2nd, 2009 at 10:09 pm
112

Orson Swindle says:

You want outrage, go elsewhere. We only get outraged about the important things here: poorly chosen theme music and blown bets.

November 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 pm
113

Orson Swindle says:

Hey, um, El Kabong. Said that this morning in the CI. No excusing it whatsoever.

November 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
114

Konigstiger says:

I’m all nostalgic….this reminds me of 80’s gators. I bet wilber marshall is proud.

November 2nd, 2009 at 10:20 pm
115

Cocky Scar says:

@sparrow – nah daniel day lewis didn’t go to UGA he is just doing his method acting research for his next movie… I don’t really know the full details of the movie I just know that in one interview he said he was going “full retard”… He said he is finding great inspiration for his role in athens…

November 2nd, 2009 at 10:41 pm
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The Real Daniel Day Lewis says:

@ Sparrow…

I’m not a dawg, simply a college football fan. If you would have read the impostor DDL’s post, it was obviously an underhanded reference to my last movie, “There Will Be Blood.”

If I was a dawg, I would undoubtedly bow out to Newman from Seinfeld as the best actor to graduate from UGA.

Thanks and continue,
DDL

November 2nd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
117

gamedaytribe says:

Is there any chance all of this ruckus means an end to the unrelenting, ad nauseum,
even-when-the-ducks-score-a-touchdown LeGarrett Blount stories by the national media?

Cause honestly, that was getting on my nerves worse than those snuggies commercials and
jon&kate happenings.

November 2nd, 2009 at 11:40 pm
118

Michael says:

El Kabong obviously has reading comprehension problems. Here, let me say this for you: Wow, that was dumb on his part. He shouldn’t have done that. We never said he should have. We aren’t condoning it. We don’t want it to happen to Florida players, Georgia players, or even FSU players (ok, maybe Dockett). The point is that the outrage is ridiculous. Even if he had been caught in game, he might have not even gotten the suspension. Prob a personal foul, and possibly an ejection. When we say “this type of thing happens all the time”, we don’t mean he shouldn’t be punished at all. People roll stop signs all the time, and when they get caught, they get a ticket, not 30 days in jail. If you think that half a game against Vandy does not matter to Spikes, I think you would be very wrong. He only has a few games left to increase his draft stock, and what better way to do that than by padding some stats against a crappy team. It might not matter to Meyer, but I can almost guarantee you that it means something to Spikes.

November 3rd, 2009 at 8:36 am
119

sevenDs says:

What should have UGa fans in an outrage is that this is being handled through whining. There are ways to properly handle this type of behaviour from opposing teams.

Richt doesn’t seem to understand. Maybe if you had hired Hugh Nall before the season……

November 3rd, 2009 at 9:02 am
120

Claws says:

119 comments and no mention that Team Sanctimony allowed a player who was arrested mid-week to suit up against UF? Comeon!

November 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 am
121

El Kabong!!! says:

Ok, so I want the opinion of the Gators fans here.

For the sake of argument, lets say that Spikes attempted eye gouge and Marcus Vick’s stomping on the knee of a defensive lineman were both essentially the same risk of permanent injury.

Spikes was suspended for a half against a lightweight. Vick was thrown off the team.

Which coach was right?

November 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pm