somewittyname

September 10th, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^

Hoke's "terrific" '13 OL crop now down to Dawson, who can't see the field over Braden and injury prone Kugler. Thanks Brady!

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trustBlue

September 10th, 2015 at 4:14 PM ^

Yeah, Hoke should have done a much better job of predicting which players would have career ending injuries or get kicked off the team for committing a (probable) felony.

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Jimmyisgod

September 10th, 2015 at 3:12 PM ^

This really really hurts our O line depth.  We cannot afford an injury there now at all.  He was already getting snaps and was the next man up, he was going to play a lot this year.  This just sucks!

The kid must have screwed up badly to get summarily booted that quickly.

And the 2013 O line class is a disaster, these are the guys who would have been the leaders of the team in 2016 and 2017, the big 22 year old men you want to have to bully people.

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UofM626

September 10th, 2015 at 3:16 PM ^

Another spot for recruiting! LTT had to do something very wrong to be dismissed that quick. Theft, assault, in appropriate female contact or something bad like that! I was looking forward to seeing him play this weekend. Next man up boys. What a shame

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The Denarding

September 10th, 2015 at 3:16 PM ^

The sad part is I feel for the kid.   He came from a really rough upbringing in Peoria and this was a dream of his to play at Michigan.   I am sure what he did was egregious and it will be both telling and sad when it comes out but this is still a real shame across the board.

Michigan won't win here and neither will LTT.   My sincere hope is that whatever happens he gets his life turned around.   

We as fans will soldier on but there is a young man here whose entire life has come undone obviously and we should all be cognizant of that.   If it is something terrible he has done then hopefully he can learn from it - if it is not then hopefully we as a university can learn from it.

Sad...all...the way...around

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Don

September 10th, 2015 at 4:51 PM ^

I'm familiar with LTT from the academic side of things and he didn't give the slightest hint that he was anything but completely serious about being a student and a scholarship athlete. I can't imagine him doing something that would warrant immediate dismissal like this. I hope that the staff isn't overreacting in some way.

 

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Hannibal.

September 10th, 2015 at 3:22 PM ^

Wow.  Not just dismissed, but dismissed with authority.  No mincing words or leaving the team for "family reasons".  That's a pretty candid statement right there.  He must have fucked up pretty bad. 

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jmblue

September 10th, 2015 at 4:29 PM ^

Anecdotal evidence is fun, but cognitive research demonstrates that college-age people are essentially adolescents.   

Of course this doesn't mean that they can't stay out of trouble.  But it's much easier for them to become tempted to do foolish things than people older than them.  The support system in their brain that can help them avoid doing bad things isn't fully developed.

 

 

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pescadero

September 10th, 2015 at 4:34 PM ^

...and evolutionary research demonstrates that adolescence is largely a social construct.

 

For 200,000 years human were adults as soon as they were capable of reproducing... around 11-12 years of age.

 

In the last couple hundred years, we've created the non-biological construct of adolescence - which is useful for getting people up to speed in our complex social society.

 

Now I'll agree that most 18 year olds aren't fully cognitively developed. Neither are most 21 year olds.... but I don't see any reason that "full cognitive development" should be the bright line divider for the age of majority.

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Maizenblueball

September 10th, 2015 at 3:27 PM ^

Wow, I didn't expect to see LTT getting dismissed.  Makes me really wonder what he did.  I'm sure the rumors will eventually leak out.  This hurts our OL depth for 2017.  Yikes.

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MgoHacker

September 10th, 2015 at 3:29 PM ^

My guess is he got caught red handed with something he shouldnt have by one of the coaches. If it was any trouble with the law he would have been suspended indefinitely until a conclusion had been made.

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