On Janoris Jenkins' Sour Grapes

by Andy Hutchins on Oct 17, 2011 2:40 PM EDT in Florida Football

Because I have a test in a few hours and need this to be quick: it makes sense that Janoris Jenkins would be tweeting about what Florida's missing during a Gators game. I don't like to dip into the "sports are like relationships" well, but what person who is dumped doesn't want the dumper to look back in regret, at least for a while? What disgruntled, pink-slipped employee doesn't want to make the person who fired him or her angry?

Jenkins went from being the best player at one of the best football schools in the country to being the best player at school in a nowhere town with one Walmart. Jenkins got exiled after two second chances, one with Urban Meyer and one with Will Muschamp, and I still have no problem whatsoever with his dismissal. You have to be pretty stupid or intentionally law-averse to get arrested as many times as he did, and Muschamp, with a much shorter and weaker relationship with Jenkins, had no compelling reason to keep him around other than football.

Talent got Jenkins his third second chance at North Alabama, and talent will almost certainly get him to the NFL. But that talent will be weighed against the potential headaches Jenkins could bring: as a spiteful guy who tweets things like he did, a marijuana user who could fail a drug test or three, and a scofflaw who can't be counted on to keep himself away from trouble. It would be easier to miss you now that you're gone, Janoris, if it seemed like you had made any effort to stay, and it would be easier to remember your time in Gainesville fondly if you weren't clearly so embittered by decisions made in response to decisions you made.

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by ParadigmShift35 on Oct 17, 2011 2:59 PM EDT reply actions

Janoris' tweet is exactly why I am glad he is gone.

"U had da best corner n da Nation in you released him==> Miss ME Wen I’m gne… #POW"

“you released him” – No acknowledgment that it was his own mistakes that got him released.
“Miss ME Wen I’m gne” – it’s still all about Janoris. No concern for current teammates and their difficult situation.

Janoris, welcome to the University of Florida Doug Johnson Memorial Hall of Shame.
I will go back to blissfully forgetting you were ever a part of this team.

by olorcain on Oct 17, 2011 3:00 PM EDT reply actions

I completely agree with this

He actually blames Florida, and Muschamp for his removal from the University. He was arrested multiple times for the same thing, and yet he blames coach Muschamp for dismissing him. I thought at the time it was the right move, and I still beleive that. with or without Janoris Jenkins, this team would be 4-3. Even if there was a chance that him returning punts could have swayed the Auburn game, I would rather have him gone, and have Muschamp do the right thing, than have a win against Auburn. Good riddance Jenkins.

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by Cardsfan25 on Oct 17, 2011 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Don't forget

He was one of Urb’s. Top 1% of the 1%.

by JaxDawg on Oct 17, 2011 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions

The 1% joke used to be funny when…..well, it was never funny.

by skigator93 on Oct 17, 2011 10:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Yup. What made it worse was that Urban actually said it. Then … yeah.

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by FlaGators on Oct 17, 2011 10:52 PM EDT up reply actions

hey

You guys got the bragging rights on the recent history of the series with our 2 teams… I got smart alec remarks

by JaxDawg on Oct 18, 2011 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Done.

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by FlaGators on Oct 18, 2011 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah, I've never seen a pretty standard recruiting line get so much play

Every coach uses similar phrases, wanting to find the best athletes, or the whole great men in addition to great football players. Hell, Mark Richt is by most accounts a saint, yet his team is one of the few in the nation that gets cuffed as much as Florida. Meyer won two national titles in 5 years, so whatever recruiting tactic he was using, it obviously worked.

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by Cardsfan25 on Oct 17, 2011 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions

thats because

the athens police send SWAT
Teams down on the guys for scooter riding without licenses and merging from alleys… you know.. violent felony stuff like that

by JaxDawg on Oct 18, 2011 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Emerging from alleys is srs bizness!

Would banning entering alleys prevent people from emerging from alleys? I, for one, sleep better at night knowing Clarke County’s finest are on the case, ensuring that no one who ever enters an alley will ever come out again.

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by car.full.of.midgets on Oct 18, 2011 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions

News flash, JJ...

You’re a terrific cover corner, but unfortunately the issue UF has on currently is stopping the run and consitently disrupting the line of scrimmage…

Your run defense and open field tackling always left much to be desired…which is why you weren’t projected as a first rounder…

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by gatorhippy on Oct 17, 2011 3:17 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

He would have gone first round

No doubt in my mind. IF he failed a test at the combine, maybe not, as he is not Percy Harvin talent. But if he merely plays as well as he has in the past, he goes first round.

by Pecan on Oct 18, 2011 8:43 AM EDT up reply actions

Sorry, but I disagree...

There were better, more complete guys in front of him and CBs weren’t a big need for enough teams for him to move into the 1st round IMHO…

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by gatorhippy on Oct 18, 2011 9:05 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm not sure which CB's were better prior to the start of the season.

Personally, I believe it was possible for him to have regressed this year at UF. New scheme and his obvious lack of discipline off the field may have translated into a potential for poorer numbers at the least.

I do agree that most teams at the top of the first round have more pressing concerns.

by Pecan on Oct 18, 2011 9:12 AM EDT up reply actions

Ahhh...I think I see the issue between our differences in opinion...

I’m speaking of the 2011 draft and his place in it as he considered leaving early…you appear to be looking at it from the angle of where he might have went in the upcoming 2012 draft…

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by gatorhippy on Oct 18, 2011 9:21 AM EDT up reply actions

Very true,

He was no Peterson. I still think in coverage he would have been ranked higher than Clairborne (LSU), Rhodes (FSU) and Kirkpatrick (Bama)—-though those guys are a little more rounded.

Does anyone else think Matheiu is feast or famine? He makes some ridiculously terrific plays, but seems to get neglected when he errs (which is fairly frequent).

by Pecan on Oct 18, 2011 9:35 AM EDT up reply actions

Meh, I don't care what he says

I’m not going to hold it against him. Do I wish he was still here? Hell yes. Do I think he deserved to get booted? Absolutely.

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by Chekhov's Spread Gun Option on Oct 17, 2011 3:22 PM EDT reply actions

This. Exactly.

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by FlaGators on Oct 17, 2011 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions

to the T.

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by Gators1 on Oct 17, 2011 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions

If you are an undersized speed cornerback and get caught by the cops that many times- how great can you be? Guy was awesome at UF. Just shows he hasn’t grown up.

by CMO2002 on Oct 17, 2011 3:43 PM EDT reply actions

Well

he did get away the first time. He then turned himself in.

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by ParadigmShift35 on Oct 17, 2011 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh no he smoked weed

Muschamp was pretty dumb to kick him off for that.

I can’t blame him for being bitter

by Sveet on Oct 17, 2011 4:52 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

As has been said about 41 times here:

It’s not the weed. It’s the getting caught.

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by Andy Hutchins on Oct 17, 2011 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions

Because you know, Spice is out there.

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by FlaGators on Oct 17, 2011 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Absurd...

No self respecting cannabis connoisseur actually burns that crap…

It’s purely to remove cash from little kids that don’t know any better…can’t afford actual weed…or don’t know where to get it…

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by gatorhippy on Oct 17, 2011 6:55 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

It's stronger than weed.

God, it’s terrible.

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by Boddington on Sep 19, 2011 6:10 PM PDT up reply actions

I literally wish I had killed myself on the train station after I got laid off
by Sean O on Sep 28, 2011 7:49 PM PDT

I want a BUC'N criminal investigation.
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by internet commenter on Oct 19, 2011 4:52 AM EDT up reply actions

Exactly.

We’ve all smoked some grass and it’s not bad until you’re caught. Once the law is involved it is a big deal. And represents a problem for the ppl around you.

by gatorempire127 on Oct 17, 2011 5:59 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Yeah. And it’s not the getting caught once thing. It’s the “Dude, we have given you 15 chances, and you still F up. Goodbye”. No matter what I can’t be mad at Coach Muschamp, because he did the right thing. As said previously, that Twitter comment proves this.

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by Gators1 on Oct 17, 2011 6:14 PM EDT up reply actions