Oregon suspends Blount for season

#53
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wheaton4prez said:
I think the key part of your phrase here is "it seems." I can understand how someone who knows little about the guy and has no motivation to make an objective judgment about his character would see it that way.



Please. As if Cal has some kind of exemplary history with their players. Let's apply your logic:

Football Player Suspended After Incident At Adult Club - The Daily Californian
CAL PLAYER ARRESTED FOR ROBBING MEMBERS OF CREW TEAM | CollegeFootballTalk.com
Jordan suspended - BearTalk - Cal Sports Live and Direct
Cal WR Nyan Boateng Arrested, Suspended -- NCAA Football FanHouse

According to your line of thinking, Cal = drunk, racist, thug U.
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Not trying to pile on here but people who have no emotional attachment to Blount or Oregon are less capable of making an objective judgment than a fan who is emotionally invested in the team and maybe even the player?

That just doesn't make sense.

I do agree that if his punch along with the even more out of control antics after that, wasn't caught on tape the punishment would be less severe. But that doesn't make it right. We have cameras in police cruisers and businesses for the same reason, if we can actually see what happened we are better able to make a judgment on the incident than word by mouth.
 
#54
#54
KB5252 said:
Not trying to pile on here but people who have no emotional attachment to Blount or Oregon are less capable of making an objective judgment than a fan who is emotionally invested in the team and maybe even the player?

That just doesn't make sense.
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I think it makes sense. It's easy to just write someone off if it is of no consequence to you and you know very little about them other than the thing they did wrong.

I agree that he did something wrong and needed to be punished for it.
 
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droski said:
thug u strikes again. pathetic.
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Oregon is certainly not my favorite program in the world, but I still contend this kid only gets a one or two game suspension if the cameras don't catch it.
 
#59
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wheaton4prez said:
I think it makes sense. It's easy to just write someone off if it is of no consequence to you and you know very little about them other than the thing they did wrong.

I agree that he did something wrong and needed to be punished for it.
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I know he had a previous problem at Oregon. I think they did the right thing by sitting him for the season after the scene he created at the Boise game (for what it's worth i think the other guy involved should have been benched for a game or two). Blount embarrassed himself and worse the university. I had no problem with him being benched for the season because of it.

The coach sent the message to his team, the university and all who watch college football that behavior like this won't be tolerated. Now he appears to be sending the opposite message, at least that is how it appears to anyone not involved or vested in the Oregon program.
 
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Lexvol said:
Oregon is certainly not my favorite program in the world, but I still contend this kid only gets a one or two game suspension if the cameras don't catch it.
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I don't disagree. The problem I have isn't so much his reaction and punch to the Boise player so much as it was his total lack of control afterward. Had someone not been there to hold him back he looked like he was going to go after spectators, an act that would have very likely landed him in court and ended his career.
 
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Lexvol said:
Oregon is certainly not my favorite program in the world, but I still contend this kid only gets a one or two game suspension if the cameras don't catch it.
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Or if Oregon hadn't just completely wet the bed on national TV. Suspending the player for his whole senior season was a stupid overreaction on the part of an embarrassed program. He should have been suspended five or six games. If Britton Colquitt's second or third DUI was worth only five games, Blount's temporary insanity shouldn't be much worse.

It remains a joke that Boise did nothing at all to the classless idiot who taunted Blount and set him off.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Or if Oregon hadn't just completely wet the bed on national TV. Suspending the player for his whole senior season was a stupid overreaction on the part of an embarrassed program. He should have been suspended five or six games. If Britton Colquitt's second or third DUI was worth only five games, Blount's temporary insanity shouldn't be much worse.

It remains a joke that Boise did nothing at all to the classless idiot who taunted Blount and set him off.
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This.

Football is all about penalizing the retaliator. I personally think the season-long suspension was too harsh, but they should've called his suspension an indefinite one while they reviewed the issue.

I think it sets a bad precedent in your university to suspend him for the season and then say "well, not so fast, maybe we overreacted."

But Boise definitely should've disciplined the taunting player without a doubt. If you can just run your mouth nonstop until you get someone in a physical game to make a stupid snap decision to punch you in the face, maybe you can take out a team's entire program in a couple of quarters next time.
 
#64
#64
I think the "indefinite suspension" should always be the initial call until things can be reviewed rationally and calmly.
 
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Lexvol said:
Oregon is certainly not my favorite program in the world, but I still contend this kid only gets a one or two game suspension if the cameras don't catch it.
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i'm sure that's what kelly would have wanted and obviously he had no intention of suspending him for the entire season.

personally if i was a duck fan i'd want him off the team completely. even if the cameras didn't catch it.
 
#66
#66
I feel like I walked into the hood. Blount can tell someone he is going to whoop their.... and after he gets beat down on the field, an opposing player laughs about it and Blount sucker punches him. It didn't stop there, oh no. Everyone acts like this season long suspension is just from a cheap sucker punch. He fought with teammates, coaches, fans, cops.....

What part of that don't you understand? Artest fought with fans and was suspended for the season. But Blount is allowed to not only fight with fans but his own coaches and COPS! If cops were trying to subdue me and I shoved them, I am going to jail. True story. This kid is lucky Boise State's player didn't press charges.

I have no sympathy for Blount. He has been in trouble before so this isn't a second chance. This is his third or fourth chance. Some of you people defending him are crazy.
 
#67
#67
Free Blount! He got too harsh of a punishment and deserves a chance to come back, enough said. I commend Coach Kelly for fixing a mistake in judgment, rather than standing by a hastily-made decision.
 
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will5 said:
Free Blount! He got too harsh of a punishment and deserves a chance to come back, enough said. I commend Coach Kelly for fixing a mistake in judgment, rather than standing by a hastily-made decision.
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So what do you feel is appropriate for punching someone in the face and then trying to go after the crowd?

I wonder what kind of punishment would happen if someone did this at an intramural game?
 
#71
#71
it wasn't caught with tv cameras though. Go watch the fraternity division and see how many punches are flying. Heck, the pledge games are even worse. They even called the game a couple of times
 
#72
#72
I'd rather the yearlong suspension remain than for them to decrease it now, even though I personally think the suspension is harsh. I think as a program if you choose to make a decision so quickly, you need to be prepared to defend it to the end.
 
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utvolpj said:
it wasn't caught with tv cameras though. Go watch the fraternity division and see how many punches are flying. Heck, the pledge games are even worse. They did call the game a couple of times though
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I'll take your word for it. I'm not a frat type of guy.
 
#74
#74
I'm just saying it's really no different anywhere. You get a bunch of competitive 18-22yo guys on a field and things happen. And when you grab a guy and start talking trash you better be ready for the consequences. Is it right? Probably not but it happens everywhere. Gerald Williams punched a UGA player last year and only got a 15yd penalty

JZVOL said:
I'll take your word for it. I'm not a frat type of guy.
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I just used that example since it's the top level of intramural football.
 
#75
#75
Nobody's defending Blount. The length of the suspension was just egregiously out of line with what you typically see in college football, where guys get arrested for assault and miss two games. He deserved a long suspension -- about what he'll end up getting, probably. Half the season.

What was particularly stupid about the suspension is that it was so nakedly an attempt by an embarrassed coach to shift the focus onto Blount and away from the fact that his team completely wet the bed in his coaching debut. They should have suspended Blount indefinitely, let everybody cool down, and then decided how long he should be out. But no, Chip Kelly couldn't get in front of the camera fast enough or wave his finger hard enough to get people talking about something other than the terrible job he did.
 
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