Will Grier's dad writes article - Sporting News
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Nice read. I never would have acknowledged the trolls, but that's just me. Don't waste ink on keyboard commandos living in their mom's basement. Go Gators!!
For the most part I think Gator Nation supports Will.
For the most part I think Gator Nation supports Will.
Drives me crazy to see kids that do the most reckless things in the world with very little to no consequences...makes me sick to see a situation like this play out.
Obviously a father who loves his son very much. Will has apparently been raised well. He'll put this behind him and be a great player for us once his suspension is served out.
From GatorZone:
Will Grier’s appeal of a year-long suspension for violating the NCAA’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs has been filed, a source told GatorCountry.com.
Grier’s suspension was announced on October 12 and the redshirt freshman quarterback quickly sought representation through Morgan & Morgan as well as Clay Townsend — a graduate of the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law — to help him through the appeal process.
Grier is facing a 12-month ban from intercollegiate sports for his positive test, a suspension that would keep him off the field for the remainder of this season as well as the first six games of the 2016 season.
The NCAA performs year-round testing for student-athletes and the nature of the testing is done in a way to make it unpredictable and hard for an individual to cheat. Each test is done with little or no advance warning.
Upon testing positive, the athlete has 45 days to file documents that will be used in the appeals process. Hiring outside counsel, which Grier did, typically sets back the process as the athlete and their representation gather all of the necessary paperwork and documentation needed to argue their appeal to the NCAA committee.
Sources told Gator Country that the University of Florida, Jim McElwain, Jeremy Foley and the UAA have been behind Grier since the beginning of this process and continue to support him throughout the appeals process.
Athletes can appeal a suspension on two grounds; they can question how the test sample was collected or appeal based on knowledge grounds, stating that the athlete didn’t know that what he was taking was banned or contained a banned substance in it.
In October, a somber Grier admitted to taking a supplement. That takes the first argument off the table and Grier’s approach will be on knowledge grounds. This means that Grier will need to show that he did not know nor did he have a reasonable expectation of knowing that somebody else was giving him the banned substance, or that a school official incorrectly told him it was acceptable.
Grier will argue that he was given information that the supplement he took was indeed cleared by the NCAA and hope to have his suspension mitigated, enabling him to play at the beginning of the 2016 season. His attorneys have hired experts to help aid them in proving that Grier had no knowledge that the supplement he took contained a banned substance. Additionally, Grier and his representation will argue that the policy that the NCAA holds student-athletes — which is congruent to the standard that Florida adopts — to is too harsh.
Will Grier’s appeal of a year-long suspension for violating the NCAA’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs has been filed, a source told GatorCountry.com.
Grier’s suspension was announced on October 12 and the redshirt freshman quarterback quickly sought representation through Morgan & Morgan as well as Clay Townsend — a graduate of the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law — to help him through the appeal process.
Grier is facing a 12-month ban from intercollegiate sports for his positive test, a suspension that would keep him off the field for the remainder of this season as well as the first six games of the 2016 season.
The NCAA performs year-round testing for student-athletes and the nature of the testing is done in a way to make it unpredictable and hard for an individual to cheat. Each test is done with little or no advance warning.
Upon testing positive, the athlete has 45 days to file documents that will be used in the appeals process. Hiring outside counsel, which Grier did, typically sets back the process as the athlete and their representation gather all of the necessary paperwork and documentation needed to argue their appeal to the NCAA committee.
Sources told Gator Country that the University of Florida, Jim McElwain, Jeremy Foley and the UAA have been behind Grier since the beginning of this process and continue to support him throughout the appeals process.
Athletes can appeal a suspension on two grounds; they can question how the test sample was collected or appeal based on knowledge grounds, stating that the athlete didn’t know that what he was taking was banned or contained a banned substance in it.
In October, a somber Grier admitted to taking a supplement. That takes the first argument off the table and Grier’s approach will be on knowledge grounds. This means that Grier will need to show that he did not know nor did he have a reasonable expectation of knowing that somebody else was giving him the banned substance, or that a school official incorrectly told him it was acceptable.
Grier will argue that he was given information that the supplement he took was indeed cleared by the NCAA and hope to have his suspension mitigated, enabling him to play at the beginning of the 2016 season. His attorneys have hired experts to help aid them in proving that Grier had no knowledge that the supplement he took contained a banned substance. Additionally, Grier and his representation will argue that the policy that the NCAA holds student-athletes — which is congruent to the standard that Florida adopts — to is too harsh.
Keeping my fingers crossed for game 1 of next year!
Sounds like they have a good plan. My only question is where did he get information that the supplement was cleared by the NCAA? I'd hate to be responsible for that misinformation!
Townsend? Town-send? Hmmm. I know I've heard that name somewhere before!
Yes: Clay is the father of (Orlando) W.R. Boone High grads & brothers Johnny & Tommy Townsend, who are now punters on the U. Florida and U. Tennessee football teams, respectively.
Johnny, who was once a commitment to Urban Meyer at Ohio State, has performed well enough thus far to have earned praise--albeit brief--from commentators on various t.v. broadcasts of Gator football games this season. That might not seem like cause for family celebration, until one considers what's been said & written about the punter for Michigan. How many Wolverine fans knew his name before his famous game-ending play?
Elsewhere, the Gator B___ midseason evaluations gave Johnny an A-, verbalized as "very good". By contrast, that same publication gave Townsend's place-kicking Gator teammates a D(!).
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Yep. Clay Townsend was a Orlando rugby player back in the day. Good buddy of mine played on the same team.
Was reading on some thread somewhere (might have been here or Swampgas) that even Creatine is a banned substance. That's a farce. If he doesn't win his appeal to be able to spring practice and start next September I would hope they sue the shiat out of the NCAA in the courts.
There is a reason major conferences were talking about abandoning this asshole org and creating their own.
There is a reason major conferences were talking about abandoning this asshole org and creating their own.
lol - they must only do it mostly when tipped off because hardly anyone in college gets nailed for that and I bet at the big time schools its done quite a bit by players. If testing was like the NFL we would have a bunch testing positive like they do with Pot in college.
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