All hail the Ruler of the Meadow!
"Never, never ever support a punk like mraynrand. Rather be as I am and feel real sympathy for his sickness." - Woodbuck
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in - Leonard Cohen
Urban Meyer did all he could do for people and players. He was a father figure to all and cannot be held responsible for murders committed by a former player he tried to help. This is obvious and people saying Urban is at fault are clearly delusional*.
Though perhaps Urban has the same problem as Hernandez, that he chooses his company poorly:
Jeff Borzello @jeffborzello 12h
Whoa. RT @WesleyLowery: Aaron Hernandez is one of 41 members of 2008 Florida football team that has been arrested. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/sp...nted=all&_r=1&
* Not many people are saying this, though I suppose the brave drunks on Twitter and YouTube might be. It is, however, a convenient pivot point for the Meyer family, to plead innocent of a charge no sensible person is making.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
According to the story, Cam Newton, Chris Rainey, Percy Harvin, and Janoris Jenkins were on that roster. Some challenging personalities. I wonder how the arrest #'s stack up with other top programs (Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, Oregon).Though perhaps Urban has the same problem as Hernandez, that he chooses his company poorly:
Jeff Borzello @jeffborzello 12h
Whoa. RT @WesleyLowery: Aaron Hernandez is one of 41 members of 2008 Florida football team that has been arrested. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/sp...nted=all&_r=1&
Yeah, there is very little context which makes it of limited use. Plus among those 41 arrests are drunk and disorderly charges and other small bore things (though several charges are quite serious). And a couple of players doubled their pleasure.
However, Meyer did have a noteworthy string of problems in the team over two years and the local paper did keep a database of arrests and run-ins with the law during that time. I remember the coverage of it at the time and it was eventually overshadowed by the end of the Tebow era and his strange exit from Florida. So he very much oversaw a spike in trouble. And during the middle of that string was when he began to consider retirement.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
"Never, never ever support a punk like mraynrand. Rather be as I am and feel real sympathy for his sickness." - Woodbuck
I think this bit at the end of the article is most telling:
The higher the tolerance for illegal behavior the more of it there will be, and the seriousness will also increase. No, I'm not saying allowing pot-heads a pass will get you a murderer on the team, but it will get you more arrests and more trouble than just pot.Jenkins, the cornerback, eventually left Florida for North Alabama after Meyer’s successor, Will Muschamp, dismissed him from the team after marijuana arrests. Several months later, Jenkins spoke to The Orlando Sentinel about his dismissal.
“If Coach Meyer were still coaching, I’d still be playing for the Gators,” he was quoted as saying. “Coach Meyer knows what it takes to win.”
It also shows that bible-study is not an indicator of a reformed troublemaker.
Fire Murphy, Gute, MLF, Barry, Senavich, etc!
Looks like the Police got one guy to flip. Roger Cossack on Mike and Mike also mentioned that both this guy and the other buddy in the car are facing far less serious charges than Hernandez. This Tweety bird is on the hook for accessory after the fact, and the other is on the hook for weapons charges. Only Hernandez faces murder/manslaughter/homicide charges.
If they have gotten both to flip, he is in a world of hurt.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...e-whole-story/
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
Hernandez wanted to be a tough-guy thug, congrats there buddy, now you're a tough-guy thug
All hail the Ruler of the Meadow!
Pouncey brothers need some better headgear:
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in - Leonard Cohen
So, apparently Hernandez is a model prisoner.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/20...dFL/story.html
Again, comments of no emotion. The more I read about him the more it seems like there is something off with him that is becoming more apparent. He doesn't feel emotion for himself either, it seems. Dude going from a mansion to a cell should feel be bathing in self-pity, no normal person adapts that quickly and easily.
I think JH is right, he's not a sociopath/Antisocial Personality Disorder, they have no regard for others. He might well be Schizoid, they show little or no emotion at all.
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