University of Florida Cornerback Janoris Jenkins becomes the 24th Gator arrested under Urban Meyer
Some would call Janoris Jenkins electric. After a weekend fight with the cops and subsequent tazing, they'd be right.
Over the weekend, University of Florida Gator cornerback Janoris Jenkins became the 24th university of Florida football player to be arrested under Urban Meyer's watch. It is the 6th Gator arrest in a year.
Jenkins was apparently fighting with some other citizens in Gainesville at 2AM when the cops showed up. They told Jenkins to stop, and he then proceeded to punch another man. Police then proceeded to taze Jenkins, who then fled the scene, despite officers yelling at him to stop running. He was apprehended a few blocks away from the scene.
Some might remember another Gator being Tazered (sp?)...
As David Hyde reports, the national media isn't covering the Gator's lawlessness.
Florida players have beaten women, stolen credit cards from a dead teammate's girlfriend, and been involved with assault rifles and drugs. Yet nobody on ESPN is so much as reporting this. Nobody at Sports Illustrated is saying the Florida team picture should be taken from the front and the side.
Meyer has drawn some criticism before. South Carolina fans will remember the 2006 game in the swamp in which Jarvis Moss blocked their game tying extra point. Moss was suspended for drugs for the game against 1-AA cupcake Western Carolina, but allowed to play against the Gamecocks. Meyer did the same thing with defensive tackle Marcus Thomas against Tennessee. UF won the National Championship. Last year, troubled defensive tackle Torrey Davis played in the national championship game after having questionable qualifications, both legal and academic. Running back Chris Rainey openly acknowledged taking $100 handshakes from boosters, then later said he was misquoted (despite audio evidence available for all to hear).
But there's still more (with an average of 6 arrests per year under Meyer, there has to be more)
But it seems that UF players might be receiving favorable treatment from the legal system in Alachua County:
In April 2007, UF lineman Ronnie Wilson (6'6" 330lbs) slapped and spit in the face of one Frank Fuller, a Santa Fe Community College student at the XS night club according to Gainesville Police. Wilson then fled the scene.
Fuller followed Wilson with his cellphone and called the police. When the Wilson pulled into a parking lot, he exited the vehicle pulled out an AK-47 assault rifle began to fire. Luckily, no one was injured. Wilson later explained he wanted Fuller "to know how it felt to be scared." Unfortunately bullets of this type can fall from the air and kill people in a city. Wilson was charged with use or display of a concealed weapon during a felony, aggravated assault and simple battery.
Here is the link to the victim's terrified 911 call (gunshots in background) http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/andy_staples/08/12/fla.wilson/
But the state's attorney's state attorney’s office reduced the charges to one count of battery and discharging a firearm in public which surprise were both misdemeanors. Naturally, Wilson pled no contest to the discharging of a firearm and battery with two years of court supervision and agreed to 100 hours of community service, the forfeiting of his assault rifle and undergoing a mental health evaluation.
In January of 2008, while on probation, Wilson was arrested again and charged with possession of marijuana after running a stop sign with 6 grams. This should have been a violation of his probation but enter but the state attorney's office failed to notice that Wilson was on probation (despite his considerable infamy). The charges were swept under the rug and dismissed citing how hard it is to prove possession.
In 2008, Urban Meyer welcomed his boy back to the team. Forget the fighting, drugs, spitting, slapping, guns and mayhem.
It wasn’t over however as after the Arkansas game back in Gainesville during a party at 3:30 in the morning at the Lexington Crossing Apts, Wilson became angry over a woman. Wilson hit a man and followed him outside and was in the process of throwing another punch when a woman stepped in the way and proceed to have her wrist broken by the punch. Wilson was after a third victim who offered assistance as we run out of facts on the story line.
Other felonies under Meyer's watch have been curiously reduced after victims mysteriously dropped or declined to press charges, but you get the idea.
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I hate to do this, but...
I’d rather mind our own then worry about UF. Let’s clean up our program, then we can throw stones.
"We're not maxed out, ... The best is still ahead of us."
Bobby Bowden
We have our own problems,
but everyone reports on them. I am just doing my part to help those who google “uf”, “uf arrests”, “urban meyer”, etc.
It will probably be on the ESPN college football page soon enough, it is the off season
and they are looking for anything to fill their headlines.
Defense is not the problem.
I'm not so sure...
They love the hot team, I’m sure you’ll see it hit a page you’ll never find on their website…
"We're not maxed out, ... The best is still ahead of us."
Bobby Bowden
I need the embed code
there are too many spoofs on the original video, with music videos and cartoons, etc.
If someone can find the original embed code, i’ll post the video.
Janoris said the reason he was fighting was because he thought that posse was going to steal his chain.
Don’t be playin’ with Janoris, now. His chain hang low.
A "close friend" also paid his 2K bail
This is an extremely poor kid from Pahokee, FL. Where’d he get the money for a huge chain?
Have you seen the update on the Sun Sentinel site?
Apparently his lawyer thinks the charges will be dropped. Would you expect any different with UF players???
Um... you're acting in self defense, but then fleeing the scene
Flight as evidence of guilty conscience?
Similar thing happened to me once
Somebody broke into my apartment and tried to strong arm rob me. I resisted and a struggle ensued. I heard the cops running up the stairs and immediately disengaged from the assailant. I tossed a chair through my window and dove head first out onto the fire escape. The I tumbled down a few flights before grabbing a pair of jeans off my neighbor’s clothesline. I threw them over the wire and ziplined across the bustling street below, fortunately landing softly atop the awning of an Italian restaurant. I rolled off the awning and into the back of a pick-up truck full of tomatoes. Covered head to toe in sweet, delicious paste, I then front flipped out of the bed onto the back a city garbage truck headed in the other direction. With one sticky hand gripping the handle on the back of the truck, I used the other to wave “goodbye” to the coppers, who angrily shook their fists and batons at me as I rode laughing into the sunset.
Naturally.
Any word on the jewel bandits? You know, the street toughs who wanted to jack his necklace? You know, the one that got punched in the head in front of the cops? Were they being detained for attempted robbery, or did they flee as well?
How about that lawyer's name...
Hunt Johnson. Wow.
FSU v. Florida
This is a bunch of bull. None of the Uf players get suspened or anything. But FSU players get kicked off. And Fsu in the spot light for cheating but Uf can beat people up and run away. Thats a felony
The bail is small change compared to Huntley Johnson. Johnson is one of the top 2 or 3 criminal defense attorneys in hogtown and he charges as such, probably $5k minimum on a misdemeanor case would be a good guestimate. When I saw his name in the article I immediately began wondering where these funds came from. Truthfully that is something the NCAA should look into. I won’t hold my breath.
Ameica, Land of the free and home to the entitled.
It would be interesting to find out if he is a UF law grad or a Bull Gator.
>-----:----:------>Spear 'em then Scalp 'em
This info is the most telling I've heard so far...
The 2nd biggest defense attorney in Gainesville surely insn’t court appointed to a college kid who got in a bar fight… right?
'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' John Heisman
So is the family back in Pahokee paying court costs for the extracurriculars?
…or is it the fine citizens of the State of Florida?
'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' John Heisman
For the record, who is the biggest defense attorney in Gainesville?
I thought Meyer only took the top 1% of the top 1%
Lol, yeah, that doesn't seem on par with Meyer's standards.
'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' John Heisman
I try
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/category/fulmer-cup/
UF breaks the tie for 9th with FSU!
The Every Day Should Be Saturday site brings back the big board!
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2009/05/27/fulmer-cup-the-big-board-returns-2/
Florida Gators clinch the number five spot leaving FSU in the dust at #10
Doc, when my Gator friends start ribbing us Noles about being criminoles,
I direct them to
http://www.sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Fulmer_Cup_Dynasty
This is the all time scoreboard for arrest of college players while enrolled. This has probably been already updated, so with their next arrest they should catapult Illinois and become the new #1 ALL TIME LEADER.
The ironic part is that the Fulmer Cup was started by two Gator alumni at everydayshouldbesaturday.com.
BTW, FSU is #35 and UM has dropped to #70 due to their recent bout of good behavior.
>-----:----:------>Spear 'em then Scalp 'em
The timing of this latest UF arrest could not have come at a better time.
Hopefully this will eliminate some of the criticism we are about to face when the NCAA reverses the vacating of wins sanction, which is due to be release today or tomorrow at the latest. You know when the decision is reversed, which I am confident it will be, everyone will be saying it was done for Bobby.
>-----:----:------>Spear 'em then Scalp 'em
I'll be one of those saying that very thing...
Through it all, the only remarks I have heard Bob say about the situation is how unfair he thinks it is for the NCAA to take away his wins.
What about the track national championship? Hello Bobby? Can you please concentrate on FSU for once, instead of yourself and your best interest?
'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' John Heisman
We are NUMBER ONE for this story on google news!
Attention recruits, look at what Meyer does, not what he says.
Tim Tebow is not a linebacker.
He will not try everyone at wide receiver.
His players get arrested more often than FSU’s guys.
Addendum to Uncencored's post:::
Attention recruits: Nothing to see there, move along (far along).
How could you be so cruel as to suggest they have to even look at Meyer, Uncensored? That’s just wrong… I mean, hearing the man speak poison with 2 tongues is one thing, but having to stare into those beady little devil eyes is just too much.
'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' John Heisman
There is so much going on here!
Good pic, Doc. Next time though can we make it smaller? We’re about to launch mobile commenting and this will make it hell on those trying to view via a cellphone or similar device.
OOPS

That is it. I know I am about to be admonished concerning bandwidth!
Have show off some of my creations once in awhile.
Nono, they can stay.
Just saying in the future. Maybe I can talk to tech support about finding some sort of auto-resizer.
I thin you need a “The Doc Holiday best of Tomahawk Nation photoshop thread”

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