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Posted on 10/16/2006 4:35:42 PM PDT by kellynla
Larry Coker? Fired.
Lamar Thomas? Fired.
The bench-clearing brawl resulted in 31 suspensions between the two schools.
Anthony Reddick and Brandon Meriweather? Dismissed.
The other 11 University of Miami players and 18 Florida International University players who took part in Saturday night's horrifying football gang warfare? Suspended for the remainder of the season.
Miami's 35-0 "victory" against FIU? Nullified. Wiped off the books.
Something has to change at Miami, beginning with the punishment. Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford meant well when he initially issued a one-game suspension for all 13 UM players involved in this disaster area, but the penalty was laughable. It isn't a slap on the wrist; it's a soothing caress and manicure.
"These suspensions send a clear and definitive message that this type of behavior will not be tolerated," said Swofford.
No, they didn't. They sent a clear and definitive message that you miss only one game if you do what Reddick did, which was swing his five-pound helmet at FIU players like it was a medieval weapon. Had he connected with skull or flesh, he could have killed somebody. Then what would have the ACC done? Two-game suspensions?
But, to their credit, the conference and UM came to their senses and announced late Monday afternoon that Reddick was suspended indefinitely. Indefinitely is better than one game, but not as good as gone forever.
As for Coker, I think we can all agree he's a nice enough man, much in the same way a substitute teacher is nice enough. And like a substitute teacher, his players act as if he doesn't exist.
"I do have a grip on this program," Coker has insisted. "Don't ever doubt that. Don't ever doubt that."
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.espn.go.com ...
Thugs are as thugs do.
Every player involved should be banned for life from football of any kind in the US.
Every player involved should be banned for life from football of any kind in the US.
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If they suspend those kids for "fighting," they're convicting the innocent. I mean, can't someone teach a semi-professional athlete how to throw a punch or at least stomp someone without looking like a klutz?
The whole state is perverted when it comes to college FB. Look at the idiotic chop thing came from Florida State!
How the heck did a class act like Rex Grossman come from there? Oh he grew up in small town Indiana.
well he has to say that, otherwise he gives his already growing crowd of detractors exactly what he wants.
He's not John L Smith, so he won't melt down on national TV or start slapping himself during the press conferences.
Did you see where Michael Irvin, of ALL PEOPLE, said that Coker needs to be fired along with that color commentator from Comcast?
The funny thing is that Miami is a very good private school.
"I do have a grip on this program," Coker has insisted. "Don't ever doubt that. Don't ever doubt that."
A pretty good sign with that remark that he doesn't.
TV analysts could be fired for comments during brawl 16-Oct-2006
That's a bit much. There's enough film footage. How about taking every player who physically assaulted another and filing charges against them.
Rex is From Florida. Not Miami or Florida State. But thugs are from all 3.
iT'S A COMMON lie that there are no requirements for a talented football player to get into those schools. They do have to be able to breathe.
What does an average Florida football player get in freshman basket weaving? Nothing it's a senior course!
Great academic schools for the general public. Football players not.
The biggest laugh is when they're called student athletes
Proud alum of a school where the players don't win titles but they win degrees.
That makes me think of a "Peace and Hospitality" night they had at a Durham Bulls game back in the mid-90s.
The game turned into being one of the worst brawls in minor league baseball history. Something like 20 players total ejected and an hour long brawl.
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