I covered this with the grey-colored hat over at FanHouse. But our friend Senator Blutarsky has a little fun at our expense by pointing at Vince’s Moody for Heisman post (which I quite liked, by the way) when the news of the day is, of course, Hornsby’s felony theft of a dead girl’s credit card.

I’m at a loss over this one. Truly. The best case scenario here is so bleak that it’s not even worth considering. Somehow Hornsby ended up with a teammate’s dead girlfriend’s credit card and then used it. For. Six. Months. First use was the day after her death. Proceeded to use it another 69 times. Rang up $3,000 worth of debt.

Help me understand Hornsby’s thought process here. Let’s be wildly optimistic and say that via some kind of sketchy arrangement Jamar had “permission” from Ashley Slonina to use the credit card, given that his financial scenario — a crappy one — was well known to his teammates and coaches. Hell, homeboy sold his BCS ring and got stung last year for selling his free football tickets. So maybe she was trying to help him out in some way by lending him her card. Yes, that’s probably off by 100%, but I’m just setting up stage two, so bear with me.

Now Slonina dies tragically in a motorcycle accident with walk-on Michael “Sunshine” Guilford. Hornsby allegedly accompanies Joe Haden — Slonina’s boyfriend — to her apartment to clean out her stuff. Had to be a rough moment, to say the least, for Haden — and in theory, for Hornsby as well, given that they’d both lost a teammate and a friend. The credit card was either in Hornsby’s possession prior to this sad errand (using our wildly optimistic scenario above) or it wasn’t, in which case Hornsby actually stole it when this opportunity presented itself. Either way, at this moment, surely a scholarship athlete attending the University of Florida is smart enough to recognize that he can’t use this card because he’ll almost certainly get caught. For christ’s sakes, it belongs to a dead woman.

In the background, grieving families. Grieving teammate. Grieving team.

Stealing her credit card? Going on a six-month spending spree across the state of Florida? Using it in such excess that he racked up a felony theft charge?

Sorry, Hornsby can’t be that “poor.” He’s on scholarship. Plenty of students get by on less.

Sickening.

There’s really only one way to handle moral turpitude of this caliber and that’s to remove Hornsby permanently from the team, say “good riddance,” and never look back. Hopefully this character spends some time in jail while he’s at it. There you have it — O&B Hue’s take. Hopefully we can move past this, but make no mistake about it, this is dreadful first and embarrassing second. And probably will be for awhile. How awful.

Update… Statement from Urban Meyer on Hornsby on Friday afternoon: “He is not a part of our program.”

Thank you, Coach.