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November 3, 2009

Florida Turns Blind Eye to Eye-Gouge

Kevin Blackistone, FanHouse

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Spikes wasn't caught acting so despicably until well after the fact by YouTube. Meyer wasn't aware of his player's dastardly deed at the bottom of a pile until Meyer's wife pointed it out to him.

So Meyer put his foot down. He ordered Spikes out of one half of the Gators' next game.

Are we to surmise that Spikes didn't get a full-game suspension because he tried to rip out only half of Ealey's eyes and not the whole set?

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