Posted on 12/22/2010 5:54:04 PM PST by CedarDave
Notre Dame’s practice Tuesday gave coach Brian Kelly a good indication that the Irish (7-5) are ready to play Miami (7-5) in the Sun Bowl on Dec. 31 in El Paso, Texas.
Notre Dame completes practices in South Bend today before the team disperses for Christmas, and the coaches and players will reconvene in El Paso on Sunday.
The Irish will head to Texas with no major injury issues.
Kelly is also making sure there is no chance his players will wander into Juarez, Mexico, which is plagued by drug-related murders, by taking their passports.
“That’s serious. Don’t go over the border, or you may not come back, simply,” Kelly said. “Now I know El Paso is the safest city in the country, but it’s serious. This isn’t, ‘Hey, let’s give it a shot, guys, and jump in the car and see what it’s like.’ You can’t go there, or nobody is going to be able to help you. There’s just been too much turmoil. … You take the passports, they can’t get back. These guys are smart enough to know that.”
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I should have added - if the coach needs to take their passports it’s clear he doesn’t trust his players.
And don’t forget that ND player who spit on a woman cop a few years ago, and got worked over pretty well at the station. Neither the student athlete nor the university wanted to make an issue of the old fashioned southern justice.
Let’s see: a student videographer died on the practice field, and a coed was raped by a football player, was delayed/denied justice by the university and killed herself ... sounds like a successful season! LET’S GO TO A BOWL GAME!
As I said, this is a test, and you’ve failed miserably, because you didn’t do you’re homework.
In the case a few years ago, Notre Dame expelled the players BEFORE the trial. In fact, it happened immediately after the charges were made. ND didn’t mess around. BTW, the players were found not guilty.
In the recent case, the football player was NOT accused of rape, even though shoddy press reporting implied just that. The female student had the player to her room and she accused the football player of touching her breast. It stopped at that — touching her breast. That was her entire charge. Read the DA’s report. It was a tragic situation but not rape.
Expecting ANY organization to screen people before they enter and achieve 100% perfection in foreseeing any future transgression is an insane expectation. It doesn’t work in school, business, nor the military (including the academies). Heck, we do a piss poor job pre-screening politicians, including a few of our presidents.
What matters is how institutions respond to the exception...the case where something out of bounds may have occurred. Do they give give actual transgressors a slap on the wrist or do they act decisively? Also, do they act prudently to ensure those falsely charged or smeared beyond the underlying truth of events are not figuratively lynched? ND doesn’t mess around.
Cedar, learn the facts before making defamatory charges like that. A co-ed was NOT raped. The only charge that she made was that he touched her breast. That’s it. She NEVER claimed that he raped her. Per press reports (although not the yellow journalism that neglects the following facts because it wants to gain readers by implying things that aren’t so), she suffered from depression, was on medication, and had contemplated suicide well before the alleged incident. But stop accusing people of rape — even the poor young lady NEVER claimed anything remotely resembling a rape. Read the DA’s report...it’s quite illuminating.
Sorry Cedar, read the poster/postee in reverse. Meant to say “Judges gone wold” should learn the facts and stop making scurrilous charges.
Dear Cousin Eddie. You must be a Notre Dame graduate. Congratulations.
Your school is not perfect. Far from it. The football team has a history of assaults and rapes.
The current football team is so out of control the coach has to confiscate the players’ passports to make sure they don’t go south for drinking and whoring.
BTW - I hear donations are way down. Way down.
Thank you for the correction.
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