Urban Meyer needs to know how gangsta is gangsta!

While giving a speech to a local Miami Gator Club, Urban Meyer began to vent a little bit.

Meyer has come under recent criticism for the perceived lack of discipline on the football team. This stems from the recent arrest of safety Jamar Hornsby and shooting of Matt Patchan. What most of the critics of the program fail to realize is that Hornsby was kicked off the team almost immediately following his transgressions, while Patchan was merely an innocent bystander in a Tampa park.

If you really follow the UF program you would know that Meyer is a serious upgrade from the Zooker in terms of disciplinarian. While Zook was quick to take on entire fraternities, his football team was running wild through the streets of Gainesville doing pretty much whatever they felt like. Urban's bunch have been more disciplined and better in the classroom. This UF team has the highest GPA in the history of Gator football. I know that's kind of like saying you're the tallest midget in your class, but hey it's something. In fact, over 58 players on this year;s squad have a GPA above 3.0.

It now seems that Urban Meyer is blaming the issues facing not only the UF program, but also other programs like, Penn St. Minnesota, Florida State, LSU & Mississippi St. among others on the strict restrictions that the NCAA imposes on the coaches and their staff.

The NCAA severely restricts the amount of communicae that coaches can have with potential recruits. Due to the lack of texting and one-on-one visits the coaches now are recruiting players that they know very little about. As Meyer noted in his speech, it's hard to evaluate someone's character with the minimal contact that is allowed by the NCAA. Coaches are now in a state of constant re-evaluation in regards to their own players.

Perhaps the NCAA could loosen up the restrictions just a tad. Maybe then we would have less Hornsbys, Perrillouxs & Parkers scattered around the D-1 landscape.

Gator Nation: Our love for guns and jail time....

These past few weeks have not been very good ones for my Gators. First we find out that Jamar Hornsby has been using a gas card that belongs to the dead companion of former teammate Michael Guilford, then incoming freshman Matt Patchan in shot at a Tampa area park.

What is going on?

In Patchan's defense, it seems that he was doing nothing wrong, The initial story has him as an innocent bystander that was struck by a stray bullet. The Hornsby incident is a little more troubling. Hornsby began using his brand new gas card the day after Ashley Slonina's death, and did not stop unitl he rang up an obscene amount of charges.

It's a good thing Hornsby had not been living up to his potential in Gainesville, or his departure from the team would mean a lot more. Right now all his departure means is that Cornelius Ingram will now be the only Gator wearing the number 7.

I can only hope these distractions don't catch up to the Gators on the field.