Derrick Nix arrested, jailed for marijuana possession
MSU's Derrick Nix was arrested Monday night in East Lansing on charges of operating a vehicle with the presence of drugs and marijuana possession, according to East Lansing 54-B District Court records.
http://noise.typepad.com/hey_joe/2012/04/nix-arrested.html
UPDATE (quote from Izzo):
“Based on the information we have received, Derrick Nix has been suspended indefinitely from our basketball team, and his future with our program is uncertain. He made an irresponsible decision that has put his future with our program in serious jeopardy.”
@sbell021
Not making excuses for Nix, but if Dave Brandon would have just tweeted him advice on the perils of drugs, this could have all been avoided.
This would explain Nix's weight issues; dude's always got the munchies.
What's the chances a kid is ridin dirty yet has no trace of it in his system? Possession of weed might not be a big deal, but driving while high is a different story.
I would advise you not to test that hypothesis.
Oh, for fuck's sake. I was smoking pot before you were born, and there were plenty of times I was so stoned that I wouldn't be safe operating a blender, let alone operating a two-ton vehicle at 50 miles an hour. I'm not asserting that driving after any amount of alcohol is safe, but the notion that being high is automatically safer than drinking a small amount of booze is stupid. How "high" is "high?" You potheads crack me up.
I would have this rogue cop fired. It should be standard protocall for bball players to be immediately released when found with weed.
It's weed....not like he was driving around with a mobile meth lab!
When you are an overweight and underperforming kid on a well respected and successful program you should try to stay clean. I am thinking Izzy may see an extra schollie opening up and will take advantage of it. Had this been a good player the punishment would be next to nothing. That's how these things work.
Nix will be a senior next year. His scholarship comes off the books in a year's time, regardless.
His Dudeness:
So Furman's schollie will be opening up? Or will his punishment just be next to nothing?
If true, this was ill-advised and self destructive, but that's about it.
2 weeks before season starts he will be reinstated and sit out the 10mins of the season opener against Western New Jersey Tech & Mining....
Weve seen this over and over and over again with MSU....talk a big game , say all the right things for PR purposes then do NOTHING...
You mean the guy who was suspended for the entire season last year, and then booted off the team this year?
...that guy. Although you left out the part about the 2008 DUI/MIP (not simple possession), and the 2011 DUI, which resulted in a year long suspension served concurrent with a redshirt (no lost eligibility). Even after the third arrest for parole violation, there were folks on this board who were adamant that he be given another chance.
All this to say that I'm more comfortable pointing out the ethical failings of other programs when we can look at our own without the homer glasses on.
...him off the team, being of the frame of mind that a program that routinely grants second chances also breeds a lot of first mistakes.
I didn't leave out anything. Brady Hoke had nothing to do with what went down in 2008. If you want to argue that Rich Rodriguez wasn't strict enough, fine, but what does that have to do with the program now? Under our current coach, Stonum never saw the field.
Snarling:
He was already suspended and then got booted for another violation, right? So that's a bit different. He already had two violations, got suspended, THEN got another violation which led to being booted, right?
That's a world away from Nix, who just has this one marijuana bust.
Wolvie:
So..... how about Furman?
for all of you living in the great state of michigan, you get a card! it's not even illegal! how could this happen? wouldn't any prudent msu coach make sure all his players have mj cards?
More info from his arrest: http://noise.typepad.com/hey_joe/2012/04/details-of-nixs-arrest.html
"Nix was driving a 2011 red Dodge Charger."
Nice car for a college student.
And Appling, iirc, has an Escalade.
A LOT of athletes have nice cars because they have next to no other (serious) expenses in their lives, being on scholarship. A LOT of athletes also drive junky cars. Just depends on their situation off the field.
A $20,000 car is nice?
Not when you compare it to what the fraud five got