[College Football] UT Football Player Booted For Being A Racist

hope thats a joke

 

Here's where I read what happened. NSFW - there is hot ass chick w/ a thong on the top left, so be careful where you opening.

http://www.theworldofisaac.com/2008/11/texas-linemans-facebook-status-gets-him.html

And Bogey, I disagree. I think we are more likely to have one of those incidents publicized more than any other school just to maybe keep up the perception that we are a "redneck" school. A&M has its enemies as well and when the majority of journalists in this state are longhorns, who do you think they will look to smear dirt on, North Texas? Rigggggghhhhhttttt.

I think more rednecks attend Sam Houston and SFA than A&M now since standards have increased since you graduated, we are getting much better students. I was class of 02 who finally graduated in 04 and I'd say things aren't nearly as bad as what old ags or ignorant people like to say.

 

The kid is an idiot for posting that crap to begin with. Pretty harsh punishment IMO but there are consequences when you act like an idiot.

 

For some reason I'm not thinking this is a compliment.

 

Well, I guess I probably should have clarified, those schools are closer to your smaller "podunk" type towns. I can call them podunk because every single relative I have lives in a podunk town and I've been to many. Even A&M is considered to be in a podunk town, but CS is certainly upscaling since the good ol days.

It wasn't meant to be an insult, but it is what is, the larger, more prominent schools in the state have a lot more competition to get accepted and so they have academically stronger students and ideally those students are more on the level and not knuckleheads.

I'll shut up now

 

What part of "he was immediately kicked off the team" does your Rice education not allow you to understand?

 

Lets say hypothetically a Tim Tebow or Colt McCoy typed this as their status on their facebook profile. Would they be kicked off their football team?

 

DPballer, I would say no they wouldn't. Suspended maybe and publicized in the media that they apologized to their teammates, family and everyone who was offended by that slur, but kicked off, nope.

 

Of course not.

 

What a dumbass.

 

Of course his apology was sincere he got caught.

How doesn't he appear to be racist??

 

No but they know they are superstars of their team so they wouldn't do that.

The lineman is a backup and thought it wouldn't leak out.

 

Are you serious?

 

Choice of Attorney Reflects Poorly on Rice

By: Brian Reinhart

Posted: 10/31/08

Who knew that Rice University employs the same lawyer as Roger Clemens, ExxonMobil, Enron's accountants and Anna Nicole Smith's ex-husband?

Earlier this fall, Rice was served a wrongful death lawsuit in the case of a football player who collapsed and died at practice in 2006. The athlete, freshman Dale Lloyd II, suffered from undiagnosed sickle-cell anemia and died following a workout which allegedly included sixteen 100-yard sprints. Rice's reaction to the lawsuit was to bring in Houston's own celebrity attorney, Rusty Hardin, to arrange the university's legal defense.

The name Rusty Hardin ought to ring a few bells, and it should raise a few questions about how far Rice will go to win a legal case. The Wall Street Journal recently stated that Hardin is "slicker than deer guts on a doorknob," a reputation he does not try to disavow. Hardin's motto, posted on his Web site, is simple and slimy: "I worship at the shrine of juries."

He also kowtows to fame, however. Hardin was a central figure in the Anna Nicole Smith case, in which Smith claimed the inheritance of the rich old oil tycoon, J. Howard Marshall II, whom she had married a year before his death. (In an uncommonly principled stand, Hardin fought against Anna Nicole.) Hardin was also the principal defense counsel for accounting firm Arthur Andersen after that company cooked the books for Enron.

Hardin's most famous client, however, is undoubtedly former New York Yankees and Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens. There are probably only a couple dozen people left on Earth who deny that Clemens took steroids, and Hardin is one of them. Hardin's stand in defense of Clemens after the pitcher's disastrous appearance in Congress was almost laughable to watch, though it must have been very profitable indeed. Even when the contortions of the case required Hardin to cross-examine his own ex-client (New York Yankees pitcher, Andy Pettitte), he did not flinch at the ethical questions the situation raised. He had to keep working for Clemens. As ESPN reporter Lester Munson pointed out, the lawyer didn't want to "lose a famous client with unlimited funds."

"Unlimited funds" seems to be a prerequisite for hiring Rusty Hardin. Outside of Clemens and the J. Howard Marshall fortune, the defense attorney's other hot-shot clients include Houston Rockets point guard Rafer Alston, accused of starting a fight at a New York night club, Rockets point guard Steve Francis, accused of driving drunk, Lakewood Church Pastor Victoria Osteen, accused of assaulting a flight attendant while flying first-class to her winter home in Aspen, Colo., and a whole list of oil firms.

On Hardin's online client list, two names stand out from the celebrities, corporations and troubled athletes. One is Ruggles Restaurant, which Hardin represents because he loves their sandwiches, and the other is Rice University. According to Hardin's Web site, "We regularly represent Rice University in various civil lawsuits, and they provide some of the more enjoyable work we do. There is a reason that college is primarily for the very young."

The fact that Hardin has a near-perfect record in court means that the family of former Rice football player Dale Lloyd will likely not see a penny of damages, regardless of whether they deserve to. Rice can now share the assurance, along with Hardin clients ExxonMobil and Osteen Ministries, that it is immune to legal challenges.

But at what cost? What have we traded for our invincible defense attorney? A lot of students' tuition bills will this year be headed for the bank account of Houston's slickest, richest celebrity lawyer. We had better hope that the sacrifice of our money - and dignity - is worth it.

Brian Reinhart is a Wiess College sophomore.

 

Brian Jones was on 790 this morning and said Mack did Buck a favor because Buck would have gotten his ass kicked by his black teammates in the locker room. He said that's why the punishment is worse than arrests for DUI or mar1juana possession...the guy's personal safety would have been in jeopardy. BJ said if he was Buck's teammate he could not play with him anymore...Buck had to go for the team's chemistry.

 

If their coach didn't boot them, I think they would voluntarily leave the team. I think players in house punishment would be much worse than transferring to a new school.

 

I think this article's attack on the reputation of Rusty Hardin is off-the-mark. He is a good and high-profile lawyer. He isn't any shadier or greedier than other lawyers, just more successful. I'm not sure what is wrong with Rice or anyone else hiring good representation for court. It is not as if -- as the article implies -- hiring Rusty is a license to commit crimes. And, it is laughable to try to impugn his reputation by showing he does business with shady characters; he's a defense attorney, defending shady characters is his job.

 

as Jim Rome says, anytime someone claims , "I'm not a racist, but..." the next thing out of their mouths is usually a racist comment.



Just a good old boy, never meanin' no harm...
Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law
Since the day they was born.



Yeeeeeee Hawwwwwwww!

 

No, it's not a joke. What do you mean?

 

The fellow deserved to be kicked off the team. As a representative of the team and receiving a scholarship for the University, there can be zero tolerance of such behavior. Hopefully the fellow can grow from it and be a better person.

What the are getting at is the protection of free speech, even despicable speech (flag burning, racist & xenophobic comments, etc), is a fundamental American ideal and right that should not be taken lightly. I do think there are other democratic and free societies that do have racist speech as a crime (Germany, France maybe?)--but I don't think it is necc.

Notice this (belief in the protection of speech) does not compromise my position above--again he represents the team and receives a public benefit and privilege at a State sponsored school.