Florida heat causes Gator obsessed columnist to go insane in the membrane
By Staff
Just stop it. Please.
The smiling pic above belongs to Orlando Sentinel “columnist” Mike Bianchi. The reason he is smiling is that he just won this blogs award for “MOST BLATANT EXAMPLE OF HOMER-RIFIC REPORTING…ever”. Mark today’s date and I dare you to find a better example of one sided, biased, ridiculous posts coming from one writer.
Personally, I don’t know the reason for the outburst but I am guessing it may be to detract from the news that Gator LB Dustin Doe WAS ARRESTED AGAIN on Thursday for driving on a suspended license. This makes the second arrest for Doe who was arrested in April 2007 for resisting arrest for his role in a fight. If you are keeping track (I am), this makes the 25th arrest of a Gator player in Urban Meyer’s four years at the school. Doe could have easily been the 26th arrest as he was issued an citation for driving on a suspended license earlier on Thursday but he was not arrested for that transgression.
So in my last post, I called Bianchi to task for his reporting on Tim Tebows “virginity” but since then, he has been a busy, busy Gator. I was greeted with his article this morning in the Sentinel about how Urban Meyer is the second coming of Paul “Bear” Bryant. He writes “Except the resurrection of the Bear is not taking place in Tuscaloosa; it’s happening in Gainesville, where Meyer is the closest thing the SEC has ever seen to cloning arguably the greatest coach in college football history”
Really? Wow.
Forget the fact that Bear Bryant won 6 national titles and 13 SEC championships in his 25 years at Alabama. Bianchi figures that Meyer has that beat. “If – and that’s a big if – Meyer keeps up his current championship pace and stays at Florida for 25 years, he would double the Bear’s championship total”. No word from Bianchi if Ron Zook would be allowed to recruit half of these title teams as Meyer won his first title with mostly Zook recruits.
Using Bianchi’s algorithm, I also was able to predict that Meyer would have 156 players arrested in his tenure at Florida and that Billy Donovan will never again see the NCAA tournament – assuming current trends continue.
But like a bad train wreck, I could not steer my eyes from Bianchi’s diatribe today. Bianchi weighed in on the Tim Tebow virginity issue again today and said that Clay Travis should be COMMENDED for asking if Tebow was a virgin and then he cooed “he is a cult figure whose story has always encompassed more than just his sport”. From the sound of things, I think Mikey may be wanting to get in line to take a run at Tebow’s “Big V”.
As the day went on and it came out that former Gator coach Steve Spurrier was the nefarious one who did not *gasp* vote for Tim Tebow for preseason First Team ALL SEC QB. Tebow was still awarded the honor by a landslide, mind you, but it wasn’t unanimous, damn it. Turns out that Spurrier had every intention on voting for Tebow but he turned the all important task of voting for a preseason honor that was a foregone conclusion over to a lackey. And as lackeys do, they screw it up, and Spurrier apologized for the mistake. End of story, right?
Mikey was so incensed that he hopped right back on his computer and fired off a blog that Spurrier goes “from Gator to traitor”. I could of kept with the rhyming theme and named this blog “Bianchi is a tool and a fool” but I got distracted and didn’t. Bianchi goes on to say he does not buy Spurrier’s assertion on his aide making the vote for him (which is a common practice) and went on to compare Spurrier, the man that brought Gator football to life and won a national championship, to Richard Nixon. Yes, the Watergate scandal that rocked the nation and caused a President to resign is being compared to a preseason SEC poll.
Bianchi went on to take several potshots at Spurrier and obviously is still jilted that the old ball coach is still not flipping his visor and running up the score on Texas Pan American or whoever else they play out of conference. Bianchi continued the bashing saying basically that Spurrier was washed up and could only make waves because of a messed up preseason ballot. I actually agreed on that point, but he has annoyed me too much today to give him a point.
I do have to thank Charles who emailed me a Bianchi quote about Urban Meyer saying that Notre Dame was his dream job. This so upset Bianchi that he compared this comment to a potential act of adultery by an unfaithful husband. “Not that I blame Meyer for Notre Dame being his dream job; I just think that it’s a slap in the face to UF for him to admit it publicly. Hey, it’s one thing for your high school sweetheart to be the girl of your dreams but you don’t go and tell your wife about it, do you?. How well would this go over? ‘Hey honey, I love you, but she’s the one I fall asleep thinking about?”
Add to this a story that despite the economic downtown in the country, Meyer should be given a raise to be the highest paid football coach. Just because. (Yes, I know Calipari’s salary but I am not out grubbing for more money for him just because I like him)
Seriously Mike? Step away from the computer…..
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