>Is anyone really surprised by the Ducks newly developed prison football team?

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None of this can be surprising to anyone given the mishandling of the Blount situation, a not altogether subtle message to members of the team with like minds that this kind of conduct is just swell.

A the time of the moronic handling of the Blount melodrama, I wrote this:

Yes, I do agree… this IS a “teachable moment.” And in this case, what he’s being taught is that there are few consequences for engaging in felony assault if you’re a major college football player.

Where he SHOULD be getting his “teachable moments” are in a prison cell with Bubba.

Meanwhile, this clown keeps the benefits of being a member of a major college football team, keeps his multi-thousand dollar per month scholarship, and continues to get a FREE education while being required to do even LESS to earn it.

Yeah. THAT’LL teach him.

I had little respect for the Ducks BEFORE this happened. Now, I have none at all.

They COULD have sent a message that would have reverberated across this country when it comes to accountability and college athletics, a message that when you act like an animal, you can feel free to do it some place else.

Unfortunately, the message they sent will have the opposite effect… sending the opposite message.

Had Oregon rightfully hammered Blount, would the conduct of this cabal of juvenile delinquents been different? I cannot guarantee that with a certainty. But I CAN say that such conduct would have been LESS likely than the conduct we’ve seen… conduct reminiscent of the ol‘ jailblazer days.

Accountability is a critical element. Conduct that casts a football program, or any program in a bad light must not be tolerated OR encouraged, and the utter absurdity of the Blount scam; where the player who struck another team’s player after the game had ended SHOULD have been arrested on the spot and imprisoned was allowed to not only remain in school, but remain on the team, made it clear to the other players that it could be extremely difficult to do anything that would result in actually, truly and finally getting kicked off.

As a result, it can be no shock to anyone that so many of this team’s players face prison or jail from charges ranging from burglary to assault. This fish has rotted from the head down, and those who allowed Blount to remain, both on the team and in the University of Oregon at all is the responsibility of the Administration.

To countenance this kind of thing in the name of wins and losses is despicable. And that is, unfortunately, what the Ducks have become:

Despicable.
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>Update: Oregon LOSES! The disgrace of Oregon in the Rose Bowl.

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Update:



Karma being what it is, the Ducks qwacked up and lost to what was allegedly an inferior Ohio State team, 26-17.

Making it even better was Blount’s late fumble that cost any chance of a win. He really COUGED IT!

Serves them right.

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Unfortunately, Oregon will be playing in the Rose Bowl in a couple of hours.

I say unfortunately, because a football program without character and integrity shouldn’t be playing anywhere, let alone in the Rose Bowl, and Oregon qualifies on both counts.

Oregon has a player by the name of LeGarrette Blount. Blount is a criminal… a thug… a punk who sucker-punched another player AFTER Oregon managed to lose to Boise State… and he managed to do it on national TV.

If he had an ounce of integrity, HE would have voluntarily left the Oregon Ducks BEFORE Oregon’s coaches had the chance to take any action, one way or the other.

Of course, Blount SHOULD have been arrested on the spot; tried, convicted and sentenced to prison for his assault. You know, like any of US would be if any of US had just walked up to someone and smacked them in the face.

But no, the Ducks took a course of scamming some fake punishment for this guy… as if it came close to fitting the crime.

And now, this scum is going to play in the Rose Bowl.

Those running the program at Oregon who allowed this should be fired; the school administration that allowed this should be fired, and the governor who let this go on should be fired.

What is SUPPOSED to be the purpose of college athletics, anyway? Isn’t it SUPPOSED to make those who play into better students… better people?

How did allowing an already suspended-once-this-year thug to remain on the team accomplish that? What kind of message did the complete mishandling of this nonsense send?

Where is all this concern coming from that to kick this punk off the team and out of school is somehow, as one moron put it,

But you have to wonder what would have become of Blount had he been completely removed from the team. You have to wonder whether he would have stayed in school, whether he would have graduated, how he would have reacted to having his entire life ripped away because of one incident.

Do we wonder that about robbers? How about drug dealers? Murderers? No?

Why not? What’s the difference? This is a CRIME, no different than any other.

And his punishment?

Why, he gets to keep his scholarship and play in the Rose Bowl.

The Oregon Ducks are a disgrace and they make me sick.

In a discussion I had with an alum of many years ago who was a 4 year offensive tackle for the Ducks, I asked him about this and he told me “I liked it better when it was just football. It was a better program before any of us heard of big money or Nike. Now, I don’t like it so much.”

No truer words have ever been spoken, John. And the stench of this will follow this program around for a long, long, time.

It is my earnest hope that Ohio State humiliates Oregon today.

Because Oregon deserves it.

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>Just as I called it: Blount to return to football.

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Originally posted on October 1.

The whole thing was a joke. I knew from the very beginning that these clowns were just going to wait for the dust to settle and bring this thug back onto the team.

You heard it here first: Blount will be back in uniform before the season is over, because, well, he’s “suffered enough.”

Why else would they want this clown to keep practicing with the team… keep hanging around them?

Those running the University of Oregon are amoral scum.

If Governor Kulongoski has an ounce of integrity, he’ll fire the lot of them, from the head guy at the U of O who is obviously allowing this, all the way down to every coach on the team.

And Blount SHOULD have been expelled; PERMANENTLY, BEFORE he went to prison for assault.

Just exactly what the hell kind of message is this sending? What would the law have done to me if I had popped Blount in the mouth on the street? Why does Oregon believe in this double standard?

The entire school administration and football team staff should be fired if this thug is re-instated.
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>Oregon blows it: Blount should not only be suspended… he should go to prison.

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Can somebody… anybody… explain to me why it is that this thug wasn’t arrested on the spot?

The game was over. This moron sucker-punched a Boise State player who had removed his helmet while this scumbag courageously had his own still on.

There shouldn’t be some sort of magic force-field surrounding football players that allows them to commit felony assault on nation-wide television without immediate arrest, subsequent trial and subsequent imprisonment.

If I were to have just walked up to this moron and popped HIM in the mouth, wouldn’t *I* be subject to arrest and etc, etc, etc?

Of course I would. And this clown is no different.

Oregon didn’t go nearly far enough. Like any other criminal, his thoughtless act injured another, cast a pall over an entire organization and state, and reminds us all of the Jailblazers.

For that, this scumbag SHOULD have not only been kicked off the team, he SHOULD have been expelled from the school and tried for assault. His scholarship COULD have gone to someone much more deserving… someone much more understanding of the honor being done in exchange for playing a game… someone who could appreciate the sacrifice made by the taxpayers to pay for this man’s education.

Instead, we get this garbage:

The response came Friday afternoon, as the Ducks suspended Blount for the season, but allowed him to remain with the team. He will retain his scholarship; he will be allowed to practice; he will have access to support staff such as trainers and tutors.

Why anyone would want to have a lowlife like this one infesting their organization is simply beyond me. And the concern for BLOUNT, of all things, shows that many have a screw loose in their respective thinking processes.

Clearly, Blount has no business being in college football. His actions were an affront to the sport, a fact that is ironic when you consider that Blount and other players from both teams took part in a new NCAA-mandated handshake prior to kickoff. All in the name of sportsmanship, or something like that.

But you have to wonder what would have become of Blount had he been completely removed from the team. You have to wonder whether he would have stayed in school, whether he would have graduated, how he would have reacted to having his entire life ripped away because of one incident.

Actually, you have to wonder those things now. But at least he has an opportunity.

What? I “have to wonder?” First, the idea that his “entire life has been ripped away” as if HE wasn’t the one doing the tearing… as if he was now going to DIE or something, is utter, blithering, nonsense.

He, presumably, will have his health. He has 3 years of education already completed and paid. I know of hundreds… if not millions… who would gladly, cheerfully and instantly trade places with this idiot in a New York second.

How could ANYONE believe that this minor suspension, as opposed to the multiple penalties he SHOULD have suffered, equates to his “entire life being ripped away” has a screw loose.

The ONLY thing I HAVE to wonder is why or how is it that a thug like this could possibly be going to what is, allegedly, a major institution of higher learning on the taxpayer’s dime.

The LAST thing that’s going to happen is that I will worry about what would happen to this idiot after he was expelled and after he completed his well-deserved sentence in prison.

In short, I don’t CARE what would happen to him. With a mentality that could possibly result in this sort of behavior, does ANYONE have ANY doubt what’s going to happen to him… either now… or later?

And this garbage about “these poor, little old 18-22 year old kids?”

When I was 17 and 5 months old, I was fully deployed as a member of the Recon Platoon for an Infantry Battalion in the 3rd Infantry Division in Germany.

Who had the greater responsibility? Who had the most pressure… the most adverse living and working conditions? Blount…. or me?

Yet, I managed not to behave like a psychotic. So the “age” argument has absolutely nothing to back it.

Yes, I do agree… this IS a “teachable moment.” And in this case, what he’s being taught is that there are few consequences for engaging in felony assault if you’re a major college football player.

Where he SHOULD be getting his “teachable moments” are in a prison cell with Bubba.

Meanwhile, this clown keeps the benefits of being a member of a major college football team, keeps his multi-thousand dollar per month scholarship, and continues to get a FREE education while being required to do even LESS to earn it.

Yeah. THAT’LL teach him.

I had little respect for the Ducks BEFORE this happened. Now, I have none at all.

They COULD have sent a message that would have reverberated across this country when it comes to accountability and college athletics, a message that when you act like an animal, you can feel free to do it some place else.

Unfortunately, the message they sent will have the opposite effect… sending the opposite message.

And some are proud of that. Although only God knows why.

You heard it here first: Blount will be back in uniform before the season is over, because, well, he’s “suffered enough.”

Why else would they want this clown to keep practicing with the team… keep hanging around them?
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