Grier suspended for all of 2015 (as of Oct. 12)

[CompuGator]

"Grier suspended for PEDs"

Landon Watnick
InsidetheGators.com Senior Writer
October 12, 2015​

<http://florida.forums.rivals.com/threads/grier.22199/>

Whazzat "PEDs"?  "Personal Explosive Devices"?

(Original poster's stream of expletives deleted as unnecessary; Gator readers will be able to supply their own.)

 

[passoverGator]

Are you operating on a 386DX?

 

[JaxBo]

Pass, what's the over/under on how many threads will be started on this topic today?

 

[passoverGator]

Pass, what's the over/under on how many threads will be started on this topic today?

If the alley is any indication I would say about 20

 

[SeaPA]

Are you operating on a 386DX?

Time to upgrade the dialup modem, too (but at least the shrieking beeped out his stream of expletives).

 

[CompuGator]

Are you operating on a 386DX?

I'll accept your comment as including the wise-guy zinger to which moderators are entitled ex officio.

My browsing PC has at least a >1 gigaHz CPU, albeit a cynically-named Celery-something-or-other. It suffers from surprising timing for its transitions from browsing plenty efficiently enough, to maddening thrashing when Javascript must be enabled (notably for composing or editing comments on an Internet forum).

Time to upgrade the dialup modem, too (but at least the shrieking beeped out his stream of expletives).

Dial-up isn't as far in my past as I would've liked at the time, but now I use a broadband Internet technology whose speed does not suffer from unadvertised sharing with other customers who happen to be on the same signal loop, and that's not slowed down by trying to shove microwave signals thro' walls.

But upon further review, those external aluminum-cased dialup modems designed to exchange signals with a PC serial port, definitely had the techosexiness of blinking lights in their favor as long as they were powered on and communicating. Especially those manufactured by a company inspired by Isaac Asimov.

 

[HardeeWildcatFan]

Just curious why is an OVER THE COUNTER, LEGAL medication ILLEGAL in the NCAA? I'm wondering if Grier can appeal this to a Federal Judge and if he should?

The NCAA cannot create a policy that contradicts with Federal Law with Over the Counter Medications. This is BS.

 

[alaskanseminole]

Just curious why is an OVER THE COUNTER, LEGAL medication ILLEGAL in the NCAA? I'm wondering if Grier can appeal this to a Federal Judge and if he should?

The NCAA cannot create a policy that contradicts with Federal Law with Over the Counter Medications. This is BS.

What about things like stickem or Vaseline, etc. All legal, but not in the game. I get what you're saying, though. This isn't that bad of a thing (IMO)

 

[ifuaintagatorumustbegatorbait]

I doubt a judge would hear the case considering this is a self inflicted wound by Grier. Also considering the fact that he doesn't get paid to play football and he's still on academic scholarship during the suspension; so no tangible loss.

 

[gatorRAD]

Just curious why is an OVER THE COUNTER, LEGAL medication ILLEGAL in the NCAA? I'm wondering if Grier can appeal this to a Federal Judge and if he should?

The NCAA cannot create a policy that contradicts with Federal Law with Over the Counter Medications. This is BS.

Like it was said in the 80s....TOTALLY!

 

[HardeeWildcatFan]

I can drink BEER and its legal in the NCAA? Alcohol is also a PED but its okay with the NCAA? Understand what I'm saying now? If the NCAA wants to create their PED policies then they need to create them for EVERY enhancer because alcohol is used all the time as a PED but its okay. Again I think a Fed Judge will hear the case and will over turn it. JMHO.

 

[alaskanseminole]

I can drink BEER and its legal in the NCAA? Alcohol is also a PED but its okay with the NCAA? Understand what I'm saying now? If the NCAA wants to create their PED policies then they need to create them for EVERY enhancer because alcohol is used all the time as a PED but its okay. Again I think a Fed Judge will hear the case and will over turn it. JMHO.

I get what you're saying, Hardee and I agree. I was just playing devils advocate a bit. The NCAA is all over the map sometimes.

 

[seminole97]

Just curious why is an OVER THE COUNTER, LEGAL medication ILLEGAL in the NCAA?

So that people who don't want to take drugs to compete can compete on a level playing field.
You may disagree with the reasoning, but that is the reasoning.

 

[CompuGator]

Pass, what's the over/under on how many threads will be started on this topic today?

I'm fairly sure that at least I had refreshed the "Gator Sports Forum" page in my browser when I learned the news about Grier being suspended.

So if anyone who'd started an earlier thread about Grier being suspended had done so with a "Thread Title" in a style that's anything like an informative headline, then our moderators would've been spared from seeing me start my first thread here in a few months. But then they wouldn't have this thread available for posting remarks that seem to be disparaging, um, the cluefulness of Florida rivals.com members.

Here's more-or-less what I saw before starting this thread:

• "Rules are rules - We aren't FSU": It expresses a nobly unifying principle, but its title gives no indication that the thread contains anything about the Gator QB who started against Mizzou.
• "NCAA rules.....": Likewise.
• "Treon and LSU": Maybe a lament by a Treon partisan, but obviously not about Grier.
• "Grier" by "steven orr": A thread that looks practically identical to the popular thread "Grier..." that'd already been started by Oozie--so close to identical that in my haste to get the news out, I might not have noticed the mere "..." difference.

So later, I did see that "steven orr" actually beat me by a few hours in announcing the exasperating news, but his excessively terse title provided no compelling reason to click on the thread he started.

If you're inclined to merge the later thread I started, with the hours-earlier thread by "steven orr", I won't object, as long as you use my informative headline on the resulting thread.

 

[Gator Fever]

So that people who don't want to take drugs to compete can compete on a level playing field.
You may disagree with the reasoning, but that is the reasoning.

Also a lot of that OTC stuff is hardly regulated at all. Before Congress finally banned some of them those OTC pre testosterone Andro boosters were strong as heck once the liver did its part. Some were basically equivalent to taking Testosterone shots almost.