September 07, 2004

Zook to put off suspensions of two stars

The game has been put off for six weeks, and so has the suspension of defensive stars LB Channing Crowder and S Jarvis Herring.

Both Crowder and Herring were due to miss the Middle Tennessee State game following an arrest for fighting outside a bar.

Zook on the reason for putting off the suspensions

"I need to talk to Jeremy (Foley, Florida AD) about that a little bit more. Obviously it would be his call,'' Zook said. "They were scheduled to miss the Middle Tennessee game. Now Middle Tennessee will be the sixth game. That's the game they should miss.''

Posted by Josh McClain

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1. Kevin Donahue says:

   posted on September 7, 2004 01:01 PM — link

   Can you believe that?! Why not just come right out & say it: "Well, we knew they were going to miss when we didn't need them, so that's when they should miss."

   With all the discipline problems we've seen in college football this year, you would think that the message to athletes would be "DONT F UP!", not "DON'T F UP...unless its before a really big game and then it's OK."

   I still go back to FSU sitting Peter Warrick in the Sugar Bowl a few years back. You sit people as a penalty to them. If the team loses, then it's up to the leaders on the team to deliver an even stronger message to that player.

2. Derek Willis says:

   posted on September 7, 2004 02:13 PM — link

   Memo to Zook: one could also say they were scheduled to miss "the first game," which happens to be this week, not last week. Jeez, this is just dumb. Would be nice if Foley actually enforced his policy, but I doubt he will.

3. Josh McClain says:

   posted on September 7, 2004 02:56 PM — link

   Yeah I pretty much had the same reaction as you two when I first read the story.

4. Robert Lyons says:

   posted on September 7, 2004 03:02 PM — link

   Excellent reasoning Coach Zook! You guys are right! What does this say to the other players on the team! If I were a Florida alum, I would raise$#$##@@. This reinforces the "win at all costs" theme we have in today's society. I guess when you are under as much pressure as you are in Gatorland to win ths must be acceptable.

5. Michael Hickerson says:

   posted on September 7, 2004 03:34 PM — link

   And he wonders why Fire Ron Zook gets so many hits...

6. Robert Knodell says:

   posted on September 7, 2004 04:58 PM — link

   I think the question boils to whether your disciplinary system hinges upon right/wrong or the quality of the opponent. Coaches like Zook make me sick when they do things like this. He'd be better off just saying, "the suspension was for last week, there was no game last week, and they can play from now on," rather than the farce of having them sit out the Middle Tennessee game.

7. Michael Hickerson says:

   posted on September 8, 2004 10:50 AM — link

   As much as I dislike Georgia, I have to admire the discipline that Mark Richt has there. Last year, he suspended a couple of players for a big opening season game against Clemson--one that if they lost could define their season. Yes, the Bulldogs still won, but Richt put discipline above the need to win.

   Of course, Richt ain't in the same hot seat Zook is...

8. TNGator says:

   posted on September 12, 2004 02:23 AM — link

   While trying to stay away from the homerisms will be difficult, this decision was ultimately made by Jeremy Foley. While Zook made the recommendation to play them (Zook did not believe they should have been suspended in the first place), we hear no one screaming for Foley's head. I find the decision laughable at best, shocking at the worst; however, what is done is done. There have been worse decisions made in the past that did not have this much out cry, but that's just my 2 -cents.