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Originally Posted by jwinslow
so what is the unofficial word?
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Supposition is that his problems at Florida - behavior and/or academic - continued in the off season. Once you are in Meyer's dog house it is hard to get out if you don't do the "probation" items. Sometimes it is academics but not actually flunking - Meyer will enforce a class attendance policy, and you will not play if you skip a class (seeing the obvious correlation between missing class and grades).
As he had messed up so much, it well may have been a situation that the number of restrictions that Meyer imposed (or the effort required to meet them) made it unlikely that he would see the field again, or at least the steps to achieve that goal were deemed too onerous in Davis' opinion to try. Hard to say. Maybe it was something as simple as a resignation announced after a refusal to take a drug test, which would put him out anyway. That would not be as bad a black eye to his next program as expulsion over a positive drug test.
I am indeed purely speculating.