Urban Meyer slammed again for Chris Rainey decision
Chris Rainey (with football, not cellphone).
Urban Meyer is still on a losing streak — on and off the field.
Any hopes the Florida coach had that the backlash over his decision to reinstate wide receiver Chris Rainey would fade pretty much imploded again.
The latest slam comes from Carol Wick, who runs a domestic violence shelter in Orlando. Wick told Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel: “I think somebody in sports has got to take a stand. Given Urban Meyer’s well-known moral values, I think it would do a lot of good if he were the first coach to step up and say, ‘No, this is unacceptable behavior. I wouldn’t tolerate it in my home. I wouldn’t want it to happen to my daughter and I’m not going to tolerate it on my team. Violence and threats against women are not acceptable.’ ”
Urban Meyer: Not making friends.
The background: Rainey, the Gators’ wide receiver, sent a text message to his estranged girlfriend: “Time to die, [bleep].”
When Wick was informed that Rainey has been painted as a good guy by Meyer, she responded, “Good guys don’t send threatening text messages telling their girlfriends that it’s time to die.”
Rainey was suspended indefinitely but partially reinstated last week. The expectation is that he will play in Saturday’s game against Georgia in Jacksonville. Meyer said he’ll make that call on Thursday.
The Florida coach, whose team has lost three straight, tried to sound like the tough guy again today. He didn’t pull it off. Speaking on the weekly SEC coaches conference call with media members, he said: “As of now he has done everything he’s supposed to do. … We’re going to keep a tight rein on Chris Rainey. He’s never been an issue before and he certainly better never be again.”
Meyer also echoed some the remarks he had said on Tuesday, saying that the bye week will “result in some changes” to the offense.
Also this: Rainey would play both wide receiver and running back.
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dawgster
October 27th, 2010
4:30 pm
Red Panties…so two wrongs make a right…i agree that Thurmond was given more chances than he probably deserved….and i think Coach Richt realizes that…your post leaves out an important detail…he didn’t threaten to kill her….”time to die”…doesn’t excuse his behavior but still a life was not threatened..Coach Richt has demonstrated that he will kick players off the team…Mett violated a young lady by putting his hands on her, even if he was drunk, still unexcusable..he also had not been into any trouble before at UGA…I think Coach Richt did the right thing, yet the kid still had a chance to continue his career, but not at georgia…the same should have been done with Rainey..give him another chance, but not at Florida…also, your great LB, Spikes tried to gouge the eyes out of another football player…what kind of punishment did he receive from Meyer…very little and probably would not have received any but Spikes did step up to the plate…The bottom line is both programs have had off field issues with players..whether there should be a “0″ tolerance or not is for the schools to decide..i also truly believe that if the gators were not struggling on the field, that Rainey would not be on the field Sat or this season at all..so to make my point here, whether Coach Richt should or shouldn’t have kicked Thurmond off the team isn’t releative to what Rainey did this season…i think Coach Richt handled similar issues this season with violance against women or anyone with more authority than he might have in the past…Maybe the issues with Thurmond made him look at these issues a little harder, even when he was trying to not give up on a kid…I think Meyer should do the same…doesn’t mean you still can’t help the kid, but allowing him back on the team this season seems a little self serving in my opinion…
High and Mighty Dawg Fans are hypocrits
October 27th, 2010
4:30 pm
Lexy that wasn’t what your wife told me this afternoon.
gdawginkalamazoo
October 27th, 2010
4:30 pm
MURPHY and POAD 5150, Remember Patrick Ewing? He attended Georgetown.
Coachdawg 2000
October 27th, 2010
4:31 pm
Dr.Steve Brule-
is your doctorate in divinity from Bishop Eddie Long’s Shonuff ministries. maybe Brett Farve did it!
MAR_DAWG
October 27th, 2010
4:31 pm
“Just to make the Dawgs suffer, not only do I hope UF wins, but I hope it is from a Rainey TD”
That actually made me laugh out loud. Sorry fellow dawg fans…it was just funny. And it would be right in line with our luck this year
anotherdawg
October 27th, 2010
4:31 pm
******** Richt ********
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/ MORALS /
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(((( Meyer, Sabin, Petrino ))))
Pot
October 27th, 2010
4:31 pm
Hey Kettle! You’re BLACK!!
DawginLex
October 27th, 2010
4:32 pm
My wife would laugh at you mr high and mighty, and then punch you in the face just for grins.
SECWasteManagement
October 27th, 2010
4:33 pm
Well if we want to go completely off subject…I knew a wide receivers coach that worked at the high school I went to and he was a Tech grad and kicked for them (Dan Burnett) around 2003-2005. He told me that there were not many smart players on the team (he was a moron however).
High and Mighty Dawg Fans are hypocrits
October 27th, 2010
4:33 pm
RIcht is a higher paid preacher than Jimmy Swaggert.
High and Mighty Dawg Fans are hypocrits
October 27th, 2010
4:34 pm
Lexy, check her backside I wrote my initials there. She laughed the whole time describing your hershel.
5150 P.O.A.D
October 27th, 2010
4:34 pm
Suwanee
Where did you get WALL STREET or JANITORAL? I never said that. I said more GT players take degrees headed to the PRIVET Sector and UGA players are head to the Government provided jobs ie teaching, urban housing, sociology(probation officer check the facts it is the only job in that field that gets a regular paycheck), Child and Family(social worker), Middle School edu, and Education. UGA turns out more teachers than any school in the state of Georgia and just look how the state ranks in education. Enough said. A 4 year drunk bimbo or an ex-foolball player is you childs teacher in a georgia public school. How is that working for our state?
Bobby Bowdown
October 27th, 2010
4:36 pm
I taught suntanned markie everything I know about discipline.
DawginLex
October 27th, 2010
4:36 pm
high and mighty is jealous because he only dates blow up dolls
It's a Tech Nation
October 27th, 2010
4:36 pm
go down to j-ville puppies and lose as usual!!!! Just make sure you get back on to and are ready four your annual Thanksgiving weekend beatdown!!!!
Chris Rainey
October 27th, 2010
4:36 pm
Will the watergirl be on the sidelines?
Dawgpound
October 27th, 2010
4:36 pm
A little late to the party. I just have one question for Marietta Gator: Are you seriously defending a guy that texted a college-aged girl “Time to Die B****”? If so, you have just answered all looming questions related to Florida football, their supporters and the University that the players/coaches represent. I’m sure you have made them all very proud by displaying what class and integrity all of you possess. You can justify what Rainey did every which way but it still doesn’t change the fact that he did it and needs to be punished accordingly by being kicked off of the team.
DawginLex
October 27th, 2010
4:37 pm
He is goin to get it when I get home.
DawginLex
October 27th, 2010
4:37 pm
go down to j-ville puppies and lose as usual!!!! Just make sure you get back on to and are ready four your annual Thanksgiving weekend beatdown!!!!
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8 out of 9 soon to be 9 out of 10
This kid must have just gotten off the school bus!
suwaneedawg
October 27th, 2010
4:37 pm
POAD, show me the facts about these tech players that are working these great jobs. And my kid is doing all right in a great school in Gwinnett County. It all depends where you live son. Now dish out facts instead of dumbass statements.
DawginLex
October 27th, 2010
4:38 pm
Dawgpound, unless he played for uga.
MURPHY
October 27th, 2010
4:38 pm
gdinkalam,
Sorry man u lost me with that last post? 4:30pm
curious Tech freshman
October 27th, 2010
4:38 pm
Hey boys, what is up? You like a little pigskin action do ya?
DawginLex
October 27th, 2010
4:38 pm
Which one of the 4:37 posts is the real me?
Take a guess.
The ultimate compliment, high and mighty copied my name.
GaGator
October 27th, 2010
4:38 pm
You people fail to realize the boys from the hood don’t talk like people who aren’t rappers. The music is trash and they talk like trash, if the police thought the rappers meant what they sing, they all would be in jail.
Athens Sheriff
October 27th, 2010
4:39 pm
I hope CMR doesn’t take the whole team to Jax, my boys wont have nuttin to do.
MURPHY
October 27th, 2010
4:39 pm
Dawgin Lex,
No the short bus dropped the kids off an hour ago
DawginLex
October 27th, 2010
4:40 pm
I’m leaving now. I’ll leave the posting to the retard who stole my blog handle.
Jet
October 27th, 2010
4:40 pm
Am I the only one that thinks if Meyer had a star player actually commit murder that he’d try and find a way around the system to keep him on the field? This guy seems to be as scummy as they get.
DawginLex
October 27th, 2010
4:40 pm
I compliment myself all the time as well as other things.
GTDog
October 27th, 2010
4:41 pm
Watch it POAD…I have a Master’s from GT, and I teach…and no, mine’s not in IM either
longdog
October 27th, 2010
4:41 pm
Chris rainey suffers from the short pecker
DawginLex
October 27th, 2010
4:41 pm
jet you are an idiot.
DawginLex
October 27th, 2010
4:42 pm
longdog=dreamingdog
Hypocrite Dawgs
October 27th, 2010
4:42 pm
Leghumpers – I understand that you didn’t like what Spikes did. I didn’t either. How do you feel about Ben Jones’ cheap shot? Wasn’t his punishment to sit for half a game? (that’s my recollection). What about Nick Williams’ cheap shot on Tebow. Was he ever punished for that? Did that bother any of you? Of course not. Dirty play is a-ok as long as the perp is wearing red and black. Spare me the rightous indignation. Your fan base is no better (or worse) than any other, so quit acting as if you are.
sec fan
October 27th, 2010
4:42 pm
Murder, unless it is videotaped, would not stop Urbie from playing a star. Even then, he would say he wanted to wait on the trial and subsequent appeal before keeping the star out of the game with UGA.
GaGator
October 27th, 2010
4:43 pm
DawginLex
October 27th, 2010
4:41 pm
jet you are an idiot.
You’re right about that.
Atlanta Police Commissioner
October 27th, 2010
4:44 pm
@ Athens Sheriff,
No worries, you can come help us out since. For some reason we are expecting all these campus muggings to increase due to the GT bye.
GaGator
October 27th, 2010
4:44 pm
sec fan
You are as stupid as jet.
shut up
October 27th, 2010
4:45 pm
Ben Jones cheatshop? Where? Is it all over youtube? What about Williams’?
5150 P.O.A.D
October 27th, 2010
4:47 pm
GTDog I am not saying all teachers are bad but our system right now is semingly focused on numbers and not the KNOWLEDGE our children leave high school with. My neice swollows book like a frat boys swollows day old pizza and beer. She reads so much It scares me, but it is not because she has too. She enjoys it. She stills has time for her Volleyball at school and A-5. He dad is a UGA grad and she started out living in UGA family housing. Her other Uncle is a Science teacher in Gwinnette Co. I just want more from our future leaders.
Tech senior
October 27th, 2010
4:47 pm
Hey there curious Tech freshman, how are you? Looks like it is going to be a wet, stormy, scary night tonight. Do you have need some place safe and warm??
GaGator
October 27th, 2010
4:47 pm
Hypocrite Dawgs
Actually, Ben Jones was not disciplined at all. I guess you folks did not see the cheap shots Boykin was putting on KY best player, the announcers even mentioned it.
Jet
October 27th, 2010
4:48 pm
Stupid? No, just observant and not blinded by idiotic orange and blue glasses like you.
GaGator
October 27th, 2010
4:49 pm
So Jet, what do you think about Odell Thurmond?
GTDog
October 27th, 2010
4:50 pm
I wasn’t pleased with Boykin’s shots from Saturday either…there’s no need for that crap.
GaGator
October 27th, 2010
4:52 pm
GTDog
October 27th, 2010
4:50 pm
I wasn’t pleased with Boykin’s shots from Saturday either…there’s no need for that crap.
A tip of the cap, you’re an honest man——-freshing.
5150 P.O.A.D
October 27th, 2010
4:53 pm
suwannee
I didn’t say Tech players are getting great jobs and Uga players are not. I said GT players degrees send them out to the PRIVITE sector and more UGA players are looking to get a job supported by you TAX dollars ie Government jobs like teaching and social work.
Jet
October 27th, 2010
4:57 pm
Last I checked he didn’t threaten to murder anyone while in college. Anymore questions?
5150 P.O.A.D
October 27th, 2010
4:57 pm
GaGator
B Jones had to sit the 1st half of the Colorado game. You need o check your facts better. As everybody on this blog knows I am no DAWG FAN, But Ben Jones was made to sit for the 1st half of the Colorado loss. Go back and check if you doubt me.