BREAKING RUMOR: Tebow Will Play

by cocknfire on Oct 9, 2009 7:39 PM EDT in SEC Football

UPDATE 3 (from Year2) 10:07 AM

Tom Rinaldi on College GameDay interviewed Urban Meyer at the team hotel this morning, and Meyer confirmed the Gainesville Sun's information below that Tebow won't be cleared to play until after medical tests this morning.

UPDATE 2 (from Year2) 8:36 AM

UF is officially denying the Channel 6 report.

Jeff Barlis of the Gainesville Sun's website is also cautioning against it, revealing the latest that the newspaper knows:

Please allow a longtime member of the media to warn all of you just a little. Rumors are to be expected. It's been a hectic week — first speculation, and now rumors.

The initial report was not from Jeremy Fowler of The Orlando Sentinel. He was only blogging about the Orlando-area TV report, which is tantamount to "passing it along for you to decide how you want to read into it."

At The Gainesville Sun we have heard no updates beyond the last word that Tebow will be tested on Saturday and it will be a game-time decision.

As a former resident of both Orlando and Gainesville, I'd trust the Sun a lot more than Channel 6. Not being cleared to go until after Saturday morning tests fits a lot better within the medical regimen that Tebow's been going through than making a decision on Friday does. Unless someone more reliable than an Orlando TV station says so, he's probably still a game time decision.

UPDATE: The Channel 6 story is now on the Web.

Gators head coach Urban Meyer has not officially announced whether Tebow will start, but team sources said he definitely will.

Backup quarterback John Brantley only took snaps with the second team [Thursday], Pingalore said. Tebow is reportedly completely healthy.

(HT: Dr. Saturday)

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From the Orlando Sentinel's Florida Gators blog:

Channel 6 Orlando's David Pingalore is reporting that Florida quarterback Tim Tebow will "definitely" play Saturday at LSU, two weeks after suffering a concussion.

Pingalore is citing team sources.

More head games by Meyer?

It's going to be a fun 24 hours.

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IT'S A TRAP!

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by Gregatron on Oct 9, 2009 7:52 PM EDT reply actions

That man...thing...knows a trap when he sees one.

Brantley it is.

by Giant Catfish on Oct 9, 2009 8:19 PM EDT up reply actions

That can't be accurate

All night long on College Football Live they have said Urban hasnt declared who will start until an hour or so before the game. They want to see how Tim handles the pressure from flying to NO.

by Hook85 on Oct 9, 2009 9:11 PM EDT reply actions

Uh huh.

Remember the SEC Championship game last year. When Urban said all week he didn’t know whether Percy would play but that he was hopeful. And then afterward it was revealed that they pretty much knew a couple days after FSU that there was no way he was playing. Chances are good Urban has known for at least a couple days now. It’s just to his advantage to play it close to the chest and make LSU uncertain.

by Gator Cub on Oct 9, 2009 11:35 PM EDT reply actions

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-t25-florida-tebow&prov=ap&type=lgns

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP)—Florida coach Urban Meyer says quarterback Tim Tebow had his best practice of the week Thursday, but the top-ranked Gators still aren’t sure the Heisman Trophy winner will be cleared to play against No. 4 LSU.

Meyer says team doctors want to see how Tebow reacts to the flight from Gainesville to Baton Rouge on Friday, along with other things, before clearing him to play Saturday night in the showdown between unbeaten Southeastern Conference teams.

Meyer says: "There’s all kinds of things they’re still looking at."

Tebow practiced Tuesday for the first time since sustaining the first concussion of his career Sept. 26 against Kentucky. He was hospitalized overnight, and there has been much speculation about whether he will return against the Tigers.

by Hook85 on Oct 10, 2009 4:44 AM EDT reply actions