When you add South Carolina football + alcohol + trouble the answer usually has something to do with quarterback Stephen Garcia.  Not this time around.  This time is was actually a teammate of Garcia’s who got into trouble over the weekend.

The Charleston Post & Courier reports that Gamecock linebacker DeVonte Holloman was arrested early Saturday morning on a DUI charge near Williams-Brice Stadium.  Holloman had a blood alcohol content of .08 when stopped at a late night checkpoint.

Holloman started 10 of Carolina’s 14 games a year ago and was the Cocks’ third-leading tackler.

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On the field, at least, Frankie Hammond Jr. appears to be earning his scholarship back. The Gators’ redshirt sophomore had it revoked after a DUI arrest this summer, one that has since been settled in court.

At the time, coach Urban Meyer said Hammond would pay his way this season and possible for the entire year.

This week, Meyer said he still hasn’t determined Hammond’s scholarship status. By all accounts, though, Hammond has taken this as a lesson and is moving in the right direction.

“Do I have a timetable? No,” said Meyer. “But I’m evaluating everything he’s doing and that includes his unselfish contribution to this team, his academic reports and his off-the-field behavior and assisting us with a lot of off-the-field things. He’s doing very well.”

After missing the first two games, he has emerged as one of the Gators’ top receivers. He leads Florida with 16 receptions in the past five games, and is the team’s best blocking receiver.

Kentucky receiver Matt Roark has been sentenced to four days’ house arrest and given a 45-day license suspension after pleading guilty to a DUI.

Roark was arrested on October 24th for driving with a .192 blood alcohol level.  The legal limit in Kentucky is .08.  Ouch.

Roark was suspended for the Mississippi State game this past weekend.

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This morning for the print product, wrote column on UK football coach Joker Phillips and his approach to the recent DUI charge of wide receiver Matt Roark.

In the column, I said that UK’s disciplinary policy on such matters was left up to the individual coach.

UK sports information director Tony Neely informed me this morning that the athletic department does have an across-the-board policy in dealing with DUIs that calls for a suspension of 10 percent of an athlete’s season. In the case of football, that would be one game.

It is then up to the discretion of the coach if he or she wants to add to the penalty, said Neely.

As I said in the column, I’m not criticizing Phillips handling of the Matt Roark situation. It is Joker’s first time handling such a situation as a head coach, and we’ll see how it goes. Plus, UK football has been fortunate enough to avoid this sort of issue of late. But I did want to point out the seriousness of the matter, as illustrated by what happened with the death of football player Artie Steinmetz and his friend Scott Brock back in 1998.