Here's an interesting little piece of news out of Gainesville this weekend. While everyone was in Hoover, Alabama for SEC Media Days worrying about Tim Tebow's virginity, trying to solve the mystery of who left Tebow off the preseason All-SEC ballot, or discussing Nick Saban possibly having to wear LSU colors for a movie role, UF had a high school football camp on Friday Night appropriately called "Friday Night Lights." While the biggest news is that Urban Meyer landed running back recruit Mack Brown, who committed to the Gators after the camp ended, another noteworthy story involves Jacksonville native Tavadis Glenn. Glenn went to Terry Parker last year and will be attending Raines in the fall. The DT prospect has already committed to Miami but decided to go to the UF camp anyways. At one point during the camp, Glenn threw up "the U" in celebration of a play. The UF coaching staff took note of this and quickly let him know that he could watch from the sidelines for the rest of the camp, effectively booting him from the field.
A lot of Miami people are upset about this. However, if a recruit who has already made a solid commitment to UF were to attend a Miami camp, do you not think the same reaction would come from Miami if that recruit did the chomp in the camp? It's one thing for a player to get excited and taunt some of the other players who he's playing with, but it's another thing to taunt everyone at the camp, including the staff that is putting the camp on. You just can't do that in the midst of the Swamp and expect for there not to be backlash. I'm sure Glenn will fit right in with his future Miami teammates.
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