August 17th, 2011 
David I just read that massive Yahoo! Sports article about the Miami Hurricanes booster who gave improper benefits to players, coaches, etc. Miami is pretty much screwed – having broken 1,000 rules. You can read the article here.
One piece that I found interesting is that the booster had bounties placed on opposing team players. If a Hurricane player laid a big hit on the opposing player or hurt him, then he’d get a nice payday. One of the players with a bounty on his head — none other than Tim Tebow.
The booster told Yahoo! Sports he had a number of individual payouts for “hit of the game” and “big plays.” He also put bounties on specific players, including Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow and a three-year standing bounty on Seminoles quarterback Chris Rix from 2002 to 2004, offering $5,000 to any player who knocked him out of a game.
No wonder so many players talked smack about Tebow or were always going after him!
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Thank you for pointing this out. That article was pretty damning.
Yet that year Tebow was was 21/35 256yds 2 tds 0ints 55rush yds and they won 26-3. So of course he had fun. TT fears no bounty.
Considering the extreme competitiveness ( to be nice ) between the three Florida universities, this is not going to help the attitude of the fans of UF and FSU toward the “U”. Yes, UF won that year and I can remember standing in Doak Campbell after we beat FSU ( in the pouring rain )that same year. There were no ‘Noles left in the stadium at the end of the game, they’d all skulked out,and Timmy was skipping around the staduim pumping the students up to chanting “We are Florida!!!” You could hear them well out of the stadium. We owned the state that year! Ah, what memories Timmy gave us all! If the Broncos would only let him create some more.
Is there anywhere I can donate to this cause?