Mike Pouncey thinks Chris Rainey will be back

by mlmintampa on Sep 22, 2010 5:16 PM EDT in Florida Football

Mike Pouncey told reporters Wednesday afternoon that he thinks Chris Rainey will be back with the Gators at some point. Pouncey did not give a timeline for Rainey's return. Of course, shortly after Pouncey's remarks about his high school teammate, UF threw Pouncey under the bus because players cannot speak about the team or their teammates. God forbid a team captain takes a leadership role.

Pouncey does lend some insight in that he has been friends with Rainey since their days playing ball in Lakeland. But he was vague enough in that Rainey's return could be this season or next. Rainey still has to deal with the criminal investigation, and I find it hard to believe that anything less than a season suspension would be handed down. (Think of the sister/daughter theory; how would you feel about the crime if it happened to your sister or daughter? Now consider that Urban Meyer has two daughters.) Besides, Meyer may look at the football side of things and realize that Rainey's absence opens up playing time for freshmen.

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Maybe he'll take a criminal redshirt

Is that a striped shirt?

by skigator93 on Sep 22, 2010 9:07 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks Mike.

The Once and Future King

by FlaGators on Sep 22, 2010 9:45 PM EDT reply actions

Gatorhippy thinks that Chris Rainey likes white girls too much...

And that Rainey coming back anytime soon is a mistake…he should at the least have a season long suspension and lose his schollie…

You may not like what I have to say...but somebody has to say it...

by gatorhippy on Sep 23, 2010 8:12 AM EDT reply actions

Rainey will be back...

…sooner than you think. The charges will be dropped. The statute says that it must be a repeated offense and (I believe) the “victim” must press charges. She’s not. Case closed. Unless she changes her mind and suddenly new facts about previous offenses come to light, this will probably be dropped. Or if the prosecution really has an axe to grind, they’re going to have to find a lesser offense that fits.

Now it just depends on 1) how long it takes to get the charges officially dropped and 2) how Urban wants to handle it PR-wise. My first impulse was that Urban would make him sit at least through the Bama game to avoid the bad press, but on second thought, I think he may stick it to the press on this one. I can just hear him lecturing Fowler that, “This is about a young man and his future and not about public opinion polls.”

by Andrew Nordine on Sep 23, 2010 7:20 PM EDT reply actions