Senior linebacker Brandon Spikes has been suspended for the first half of Saturday’s game against Vanderbilt in the tackle that was made with Georgia’s RB Washaun Ealey that involved Spike’s fingers inside of Ealey’s facemask while in a dog pile after the play was over. Coach Urban Meyer was the one who suspended Spikes for the first half of the Vandy game.

“I don’t condone that and I understand what goes on on the football [field], but there’s no place for that,” Meyer said. “We’re going to suspend Brandon for the first half of the Vanderbilt game. I spoke with him. That’s not who he is. That’s not who we are. He got caught up in emotion. I love Brandon Spikes. Our team does. We’re going to move on. He has our full support.”

The suspension Meyer came up for Spikes was looked over and approved by the SEC.

Spikes didn’t have anything to say really and also the fact that they had today off so you couldn’t get anything from him, but there was a quote that was gathered up from Spikes after what happened.

“I accept responsibility for my actions and I accept the consequences of my actions,” he said. “I would like to apolotize to my team and the coaching staff and Washaun Ealey. Football is a very physical and emotional game, but there is no excuse for my actions.”

He also was not to happy after the video was released all over youtube and spreaded throughout the Nation. It was posted on GSN yesterday, a slow motion footage of his fingers being placed inside of Ealey’s helmet which showed everything that happened.

It was a very physical game. It always is between these two teams. Spikes had his helmet ripped off early in the game and I know some of the emotion from that had to do with it, but along with that there was five personal fouls that were called in the game, three of the five were called on Georgia and the other two came from Florida.

This is football. When there are dog piles like that, players bite you, scratch you, poke you in the eye, and all sorts of stuff. It’s a physical sport and this stuff happens a lot but it doesn’t get caught on camera often but it did with Spikes. It was an intense game, of course some of this stuff is going to happen.

(Quotes gathered from Antonya English/ Gator Report.)