Florida DT Jay-nard Bostwick out with "personal issues"
By Thomas Goldkamp - Apr 9, 2015
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida has been without redshirt sophomore Jay-nard Bostwick during spring practice, and his status moving forward is unclear as he deals with personal matters.
"He’s handling some things personally right now," coach Jim McElwain said. "Once he gets those handled then we’ll kind of measure it from there."
Bostwick has not played much for Florida, seeing action in just five games and recording three tackles in 2014. He redshirted during the 2013 season.
He also served a one-game suspension for the Idaho game for an undisclosed violation of team rules. That game was canceled after just one play but still counted as time served for Bostwick.
McElwain refused to term Bostwick's absence a suspension. He did the same with Chris Thompson, who's "excused from the team" while dealing with a charge for misdemeanor simple battery.
"He’s dealing with some personal issues right now and I respect that and we’ll see how that time works out," McElwain said of Bostwick.
Defensive line coach Chris Rumph was equally evasive on Bostwick's status when asked earlier this spring.
"Jaynard is, I think he’s injured or something, I don’t know what’s going on with him but he’s out," Rumph said on March 27. "He may be back before the spring game is out."
In any case, Bostwick certainly looks like a player to keep an eye on for a possible transfer.
McElwain touched on the possibility of a few players leaving following the spring semester when asked about it Thursday.
"I’m sure there might be," the first-year coach said. "I certainly want all these guys to be here and yet that’s a personal choice and decision that they’re going to have to make. I mean, we’d sure like to have them all here."
