Oregon player slugs Boise State player after game - Page 3 - The Hull Truth

Menzies · 09-07-2009, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by JAGSARE1

I hate to start out by saying..."Back when I played..." but I don't know any other way. Back when I played, there was no trash talking. In football, you wanted to knock the other guy into next week but instead of standing over him screaming trash...you just smiled. Today, you watch a game and it is nothing but constant mouth running. They do it in the pros so the college kids started doing it, then the high schoolers and younger. If I had done that, even in high school, my dad would have whipped my a$$. Today, all the parents want to do is whip the referees a$$.

Yep, when I played rugby there were many times during a game you wanted to tear into a guy, and sometimes there were flashes. But it was all in the heat of the game. You respected the refs and when they told you to quit, you quit.

Rugby, a game for hooligans played by gentlemen. Soccer, a game for gentlemen played by hooligans.

spraynet 1 · 09-07-2009, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by RI Builder

Respectfully, I disagree. Oregon does not owe this kid a look at the NFL. Essentially he entered into a contractual relationship with the school when he signed his scholarship. He not only embarrassed himself, but his team, and the school. Also, form what I have read, this is not his first rodeo with anger management issues.

Call me crazy, but based on the way he acted, I think a urine test is in order, if you know what I mean.

Besides, suspension or no suspension, that punch would have cost him a trip to at least round 6 or greater.

He needs to be held accountable for his own actions and accept personal repsponsability. If he were my player, I too would have tossed him for the season, and no, I would not let him practice with the team either. When a team has a cancer, you need to cut it out.

He should have thought about his NFL prospects BEFORE throwing the punch.

I agree 100%

Menzies · 10-02-2009, 03:01 PM

Well well, what a surprise, right?

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LeGarrette Blount May Play for Oregon This Season After All

Posted Oct 02, 2009 3:51PM By Michael David Smith (RSS

Oregon coach Chip Kelly has had a change of heart, saying today that he might allow running back LeGarrette Blount to play this season even though he previously announced that Blount was suspended for the entire year for punching a Boise State player following the season opener.

Blount is one of Oregon's most talented players, so if he plays again this season it will certainly help Oregon win more games. But Kelly insisted at a press conference Friday that he wasn't motivated by anything other than a desire to do what experts told him was the best thing for Blount:

"After speaking with a number of nationally renowned professionals in the field, which included Dr. Harry Edwards and Tony Dungy, I came to the conclusion that leaving the door open for LeGarrette's potential return as an active player was the best solution," Kelly said.

"He has a rigid set of conditions he must live up to and there are certainly no guarantees in place. This merely provides him the opportunity for my reconsideration in the future should he meet those demands."

Blount has continued to go to class and practice with the team,and Kelly says that if he continues to follow all team rules, he can play again starting on November 7 against Stanford. If he's back against Stanford, that would constitute a seven-game suspension -- still a stiff sentence, but one that gives Blount a chance to have a meaningful impact on the Oregon team this season. If he's a model citizen for the next month, that's a chance he deserves.

tprice · 10-03-2009, 08:00 PM

I felt the penalty was too harsh so I agree with giving him another chance.

Hope it works out and I bet NOBODY else will taunt him after a game again