Fine. You win. Truth be told, Ramonce is a thug and should be kicked off the team. There's no place for that kind of crap on the UT football team. Also, truth be told, bigtexxx has a ridiculously large inferiority complex and a dangerous obsession with UT. There's no place for someone with that kind of malevolent agenda on Clutch BBS. Happy now?
I wasn't trying to make you look like the bad guy, I would just honestly like to know why you don't post when things like this happen at other schools, but are always the first to post when anything negative is reported towards UT. If you really hate the direction college athletics is going, and didn't just have a hatred for UT, it seems you'd post simiar stories about other programs. UT isn't the only school with these type of problems.
Nope, not at all. They just make it really easy for me to point out my dismay at what has become of college athletics in today's world.
"Yes officer I got in a fight and they broke my window, after i'm done talking with you i'm going to go back and shoot them all. What's that? Oh yeah, sure you can search my car..." ^ | | That's almost as dumb as this gloating riceboi thread. WHO CARES
Except possession of mar1juana in excess of 5 pounds is a 2nd degree felony and carries a 2-20 year prison sentence and/or $10,000 fine if convicted.
rocketfan007.. I think it is natural to post about schools in the area. Now if he doesn't bash A&M etc that are also in the area, then I could see your point (not sure if he has or not)
Gee, that's funny, texxx. I didn't see any holier-than-thou posts from you in the Mark Sanchez arrest thread. Gosh, what a shock. You must have been "out of town" that day. Yeah, that must be it. Hmmmm, come to think of it, I didn't see any posts from you in the Marcus Vick thread or even the larger Marcus Vick thread. Oh, yeah, and I'm still waiting for you to start a thread about the Utah St. QB arrest from last month. I eagerly await your posts in these matters. After all, you're such an equal opportunity college criminal basher.
I've taken issue with things at A&M before. I'm an equal opportunity employer. UT-Austin has been making things easy for me of late with all their incidents (...and the remarkable correlation with their increased winning %...). http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=44560&highlight=corps http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=44231&highlight=corps
Oh trust me I was disgusted by all those things. Obviously I can't be all places at all times. What I was HAPPY to see in those threads were people getting upset about what happened. I DO NOT see that from horn fans. Just people who are glad they win on the field...despite the means to reach those wins...
bigtexx.. yeah I thought you had talked about other schools before, just couldn't remember exactly who. My point is that this is a message board in Texas, it's a lot more natural to post on Texas sports teams in trouble than it is Utah State, etc
bigtexxx, if you really want to see how most longhorn fans feel about this situation, read the www.insidetexas.com forum. Like me, most of us feel that he should be kicked off the team and almost every single poster believes he will be. If you have a problem with collegiate athletics, that's fine, I would probably agree with you on most accounts. But don't make it out that UT deliberately recruits thugs to play ball. The same could be said for almost any major D-1 college, look at what the hell has happened to USC that past 2 months. I'm not gonna bash an entire university or athletic program because a couple guys make a bad decision.
As opposed to the cheaters that Rice recruits? http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~faccoun/Ath_Reform_hist_SEPT_2003_6.pdf The first self-study of the Hackerman era took place in 1974. The Self Study Report of that year sounded the keynote of all subsequent athletic reform on this campus by singling out the poor academic preparation of the bottom quartile of athletes as the most worrisome and ethically dubious aspect of the program. The average college board scores of scholarship athletes, as a group, had remained almost constant since 1965, but the authors of the self-study recognized that the overall average obscured what was happening at the bottom of the distribution: The average scores of the lowest quarter of this group ... have declined precipitously in the past few years. ... The group with extremely low CEEB scores has only a small chance of performing satisfactorily in their course work.... The Honor Council reports that athletes in academic difficulty account for about half of the reported violations of the Honor Code. Since fewer than one in ten students were athletes, this was a shockingly large figure, implying that athletes as a group were dramatically more likely to violate the honor code than regularly admitted students. When the Athletic Review Committee posed the same question in 1992, it found the same disproportion: half of all honor code violations were being committed by athletes. When the question was asked yet again in 2002-03, there had been no significant change. Athletes, who make up only 10 percent of the undergraduate student body, accounted for 45 percent of undergraduate honor code violations. 1 in 10 students are athletes. We're looking at the bottom 25% of them - so 2.5% of the student population that's committing 45% of the violations of the entire university. Rice apparently has quite the high standards of recruiting the "student-athlete".
Sorry - it looks like they are talking about athletes as a whole, so the 10% of Rice students that are athletes commit 45% of the violations. The majority of those seem to be committed by the bottom 25% of the athletes.
Damn it, our most high profile player is in trouble with the law...maybe it'll give us street credibility on the BBS though FREE RAMONCE OCP #10 - THE TRUTH
