• Chastise those tacky heathens, wouldst thou? Auburn's recruiting limos obviously made a splash last week -- you can tell because other SEC big shots suddenly have the Tigers in their sights:

Florida Gators coach Urban Meyer took notice and was not pleased with the recruiting ploy. He told Pat Dooley of The Gainesville Sun the NCAA should look into what Auburn did. Meyer said, "I think it should," when asked if the NCAA will get involved. "We're trying to sell graduation rates and academics and trying the sing and dance routine.

"The Florida coaching staff will not be riding around in limos or ripping off our shirts."

The latter, you may recall, is a reference to Tennessee's shirtless routine for recruits in February -- also, anecdotally, a hit with the kids. There's no apparent violation in limos or Hulking out -- even if only because the NCAA isn't creative enough to have foreseen either -- but we'll give Corch Meyer the benefit of the doubt when Florida starts posting "graduation rates and academics" next to its fake 40 times.

In the meantime, more good recruiting news for Gene Chizik's Tigers: February signee DeAngelo Benton, the five-star receiver twice rejected by LSU because of academics, has been cleared to play for Auburn this fall.

• Actually, that is a likely story. The notable arrest of the weekend (so far) actually went down on Thursday, when early-enrolling Missouri quarterback Blaine Dalton was picked up for felony possession of a controlled substance, in addition to the full laundry list of routine dirty ridin': False ID, failure to maintain insurance, a lane violation and, for good measure, being a minor in possession of alcohol. Dalton was immediately suspended, though, for his part, he maintains those pills weren't his:

"I wasn’t intoxicated, and I wasn’t selling pills ... They looked in my car and found an unopened beer in the glove compartment," Dalton said. "It was warm. I don’t know how long it had been in there. It wasn’t cold and it wasn’t open, and I wasn’t drunk or anything like that."

According to Dalton, the pills -- prescription Hydrocodone -- belonged to a high school teammate who had left them in the car following shoulder surgery; the teammate backs up that story for their hometown paper. Per university policy, the suspension stands pending resolution in court.

In other legal news, two Marshall starters -- leading rusher Darius Marshall and cornerback DeQuan Starling (who also goes by DeQuan Bembry) -- were arrested on Saturday morning, though the report in the local Huntington Dispatch muddles the issue beyond that. Police booked Marshall at 2:30 a.m. Saturday for possession of an undisclosed controlled substance with intent to distribute; Starling/Bembry was booked at the same time at the same jail after being arrested in a dorm lobby at midnight, but the paper doesn't list charges against him or indicate that his arrest is related to Marshall's. Maybe we're supposed to infer the connection? On top of that, the Charleston Gazette mentions a third arrestee Saturday morning, Brandon Burns, but wasn't able to confirm if it was the Marshall linebacker with the same name and doesn't speculate on his involvement with either of the other two. Somebody get to the bottom of this, lest the Herd wind up shorted in their strong push to take the cup of record for the second time in four years.

(Update, 11:05 a.m. ET. A Charleston Gazette column elaborates on the Herd's troubles, clarifying that Starling/Bembry's arrest was indeed for possession with intent to distribute (though what they intended to distribute, we still don't know) and noting that this weekend's two-fer brings the grand total of Marshall players arrested in the last two months to FIVE.)

• They're supposed to make grades after they're enrolled? The NCAA will release the rest of the nation's scores later this week, but, numbers already in hand, Minnesota decided it would get ahead of the bad news (at the end of business on a Friday, of course): Gopher football will be docked three scholarships for falling below the Association's academic progress rate between 2004 and 2008, the first Big Ten team hit with scholarship penalties since the NCAA instituted the APR a few years ago.

In fact, APR penalties have been criticized in their brief existence for falling almost exclusively on smaller schools, most harshly on San Jose State and Florida International. In Minnesota's case, much of the blame is falling on three (unnamed) academically ineligible players who later left the team during the Glen Mason era, and the penalties were already factored into last year's recruiting class; they can be restored next year if the rolling four-year number improves. Expect more penalties when the full set of numbers are published later this week.

At least the Gophers aren't shying away from big non-conference games: In addition to playing USC in 2010, Minnesota has also added a home-and-home with Texas, probably (but not definitely, yet) for 2011 and 2012.

• At least Joe Biden wasn't on board. Outgoing Florida receiver Percy Harvin was apparently tested for swine flu after vomiting on a flight to Atlanta Thursday en route to the Vikings' rookie minicamp, and spent two days in the hospital with "extreme dehydration and a virus." But not that virus, thankfully, so we can rule out the speedster as a culprit in the latest evolution of the H1N1 scare.

Speaking of flu, the Austin American-Statesman had an interesting review Sunday of the last time Texas played during a genuine flu epidemic, in 1918.

Quickly ... Nothing slows down John Wooden. ... Tennessee fans judge the first 150 days of the Lane Kiffin administration. ... Now that the Ducks are set at coach and athletic director for the foreseeable future, the Oregon House of Representative passed a "Rooney Rule" for the state's public universities. ... Arizona State's Josh Jordan has friends in high places, especially just to win a campus senate bid. ... Dick Tomey's wife is releasing her fifth novel, and apparently Ty Willingham is a fan. ... Free agent quarterback Greg Paulus checks out Nebraska's journalism department. ... Even the head coach was bored to tears by Kansas State's spring game. ... Why there are a bunch of incoming freshmen on West Virginia's first post-spring depth chart. ... Colorado finds a place for Nebraska on the campus golf course. ... The Orlando Sentinel runs down its top ten coaches. ... And students in Gainesville start "a riot-like fight" wherein "about 60 individuals were trying to attack seven" at a Job Corps facility.