In the last several years, Florida has become the Notre Dame of the SEC. That is, the program everyone loves to hate. New money can do that. Now, it appears that UF wants to become SEC's Miami/Oklahoma of the 1980's. While the Hurricanes have just suspended 7 players for their opener, the Gators have allowed a guy who beat down a civilian and then fired a Soviet-made assault rifle in the air - "I just wanted to scare him" - back on the team. Coach Urban Meyer's strange logic that the shooter is a senior and needs to get his degree (I think everyone involved with this blog managed to attend class and finish a bachelor's degree without playing on a D-I football team) would make Jimmy Johnson or the Bootlegger's Boy proud. Why so such harm to the program's reputation for a devensive tackle? As UF almnus Mark Nadeau put it, "It's not like he's Percy Harvin."
