Gator trouble

Ladies and gentlemen, Mike Bianchi’s wet dream.

Coming up: Does Aaron Hernandez being entangled in murder investigation taint the #Gators in any way? Listen: http://t.co/dP2q6rpN8r

— Mike Bianchi (@BianchiWrites) June 21, 2013

And with this story coming out in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, it’s pretty obvious that Florida’s getting a lot of unwanted attention about its… um, support of student-athletes who run into trouble.

As prosecutors prepare to try former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on murder and gun charges, new details have emerged about a 2007 bar fight at the University of Florida that suggest the incident was far from trivial.

According to a 2007 police report obtained Monday by The Wall Street Journal, Hernandez had a brush with the law at Florida before he’d even played a down.

That’s what made him one of Corch’s top 1% of the top 1%.

Speaking of Meyer, that’s got to be the one disappointment for Bianchi – that he’s no longer around to bask in the warmth and love of the Gator media on the subject.  But that doesn’t mean Bianchi can’t reminisce about the good old days.

When Urban Meyer coached in Gainesville, we media cynics used to call Johnson the most valuable member of UF’s staff even though he doesn’t actually work for the Gators. Even so, he was Meyer’s ingenious and innovative “defensive coordinator” because he was so effective at defending some of the Urbanator’s gun-toting, bar-fighting miscreants and malcontents.

Fun times.  Even if Corch is reluctant to join in.

https://twitter.com/BenAxelrod/statuses/351748277030490112

Where’s a Seat 37F when a guy needs one?

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UPDATE:  By the way, that witness called over to try to intervene in the bar dispute?  None other than His Tebowness.  Timmy may not have been able to stop Hernandez from throwing a punch, but it seems like he helped get the ball rolling on the fix.

Hernandez told the officer both he and Tebow had already called then-UF football coach Urban Meyer and informed him about the incident.

A day later, the investigator officer told Hernandez’s attorney, Huntley Johnson, he would not be pursuing charges in connection with alcohol served to minors at the restaurant, but he wrote, “it would be noted in the report so the coaches could handle it internally.”

That was thoughtful.