Suspended Gators players are allowed back, sitting out the cancelled game counts

[Hogwild]

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Gators coach Will Muschamp says WR Robinson and DTs Cummings, Bostwick are back from suspensions

Not having to sit in the locker room with the rest of the team, for 4 hours on Saturday waiting to see if the game would be played was punishment enough.

[The_Bionic_Pig]

Not having to sit in the locker room with the rest of the team, for 4 hours on Saturday waiting to see if the game would be played was punishment enough.

WOW!!

[onebadrubi]

And people disagree with me when I saw emmert is dirty as all get out and are we sure we want Slive representing what happens when this P5 thing takes off. 

[jbcarol]

Gatorsports.com @Gator_sports  ·  5h

Notebook: Cummings, Bostwick, Robinson reinstated to play http://bit.ly/1q4mXAt

[(notOM)Rebel123]

Do we play them next week? Then I really don't care one way or the other. Sorry.

[onebadrubi]

Do we play them next week? Then I really don't care one way or the other. Sorry.

That's why it's in the SECsports forum. 

[Rzbakfromwaybak]

Lol.....these... "suspensions"... are really becoming a joke.

Why not just have an SEC/NCAA  rule that states:

"All player suspensions must be enforced, until kickoff of the next game."
....it's almost like that now anyway.....

[HyperDrive]

And people disagree with me when I saw emmert is dirty as all get out and are we sure we want Slive representing what happens when this P5 thing takes off.

Has nothing to do with Emmert or Slive.  These weren't NCAA or SEC violations.  It was an internal discipline issue - violation of team rules.  So it's up to the coach to decide when to bring them back.

Your issue is with Muschamp, not Slive or Emmert.

[Tejano Jawg]

3 players suspended from Florida's opener vs Idaho—you know, the game that was called off because of a hurricane—will be reinstated and play in their second game. This makes their suspension exactly 10 SECONDS. Knock yourself out Musky.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/three-florida-players-suspended-for-terminated-idaho-game-will-play-saturday-134048283.html

[(notOM)Rebel123]

That's why it's in the SECsports forum. 

Why?....Because I don't care? Wow...didn't realize I had that much influence.
Thanks.

[onebadrubi]

Why?....Because I don't care? Wow...didn't realize I had that much influence.
Thanks.

Easy now Barney, don't go getting your one bullet out just yet. 

[DeltaBoy]

Coach wants to win really bad when you pull a stunt like that.

[jbcarol]

Mark Bradley: Florida planned to suspend three players — receiver Demarcus Robinson and defensive linemen Darious Cummings and Jay-nard Bostwick — for its season opener against Idaho last Saturday. The Idaho game lasted one play. After a weather delay, the Gators returned the opening kickoff. Then came another weather delay, which became a postponement and ultimately a cancellation.

Florida coach Will Muschamp announced this week that the three suspended Gators would be available for this week's game against Eastern Michigan, their penance apparently having been served by sitting out an opening kickoff.

Muschamp:     It's not just about suspending players for games. There's a lot things that go into discipline. It's about altering and changing behavior, which we've done. I think our discipline speaks for itself and how we've handled our football team, OK? If it was about suspension, you'd never have an issue. Right?

    At the the end of the day, it's more than that. There's a lot of things that go into those situations, a lot more than people know. And it's very frustrating for me as a coach ... to have someone being critical and you don't even have all the information. At the end of the day, I make the decisions in this program, I handle the discipline in this program and it's been handled very well.

I have no idea what Muschamp meant when he said, "If it was about suspension, you'd never have an issue." Then again, I've often had no idea what Muschamp is doing — and I'm not sure he does, either. He's on his third offensive coordinator in four seasons at Florida. Last year's Gators went 4-8, the worst Florida had done since 1979. Muschamp is 0-3 against Georgia, his alma mater. (Ron Zook, by way of contrast, was 2-1 against the Bulldogs.)