The Shawn Conway Issue

If whimsical word play gets negged on MGoBlog, then the terrorists have already won. I say + 1 to you, sir.

Still, breaking into a locker? Very twitty, Conway.

Unfortunately I've known about this since my son who attends Seaholm showed me the article last May.  I believe in second chances and I hope Shawn takes advantage of this.  He has a great opportunity awaiting him.  Lets hope he learned from this and becomes a young man that Michigan can be proud of.

It is unequivocally true. The one thing no one in a locker room forgives is that. 

I think they are more likely to let a local kid slide than they are a non-local kid. The 5 people who still have Freep subscriptions are more likely to sympathize with Shawn Conway or Marc Dell or B.J. Cunningham and the rest of the Potluck Eight but Dorsey is just another thug from a land far, far, away. The Freep gets to look like they're taking the high ground by taking Rich Rod to task for "Desperately Seeking Dorsey" as well as for fellating Dantonio because he gives local guys chanceses.

I know, I know, I'm giving them a lot of credit. I don't think they're stupid, I just think they're assholes.

I thought for a moment that

mother sent to prison at ten, now the legal guardian of his coach

might indicate a weird twist, where Conway's mother was the guardian of his coach, who was in turn Conway's guardian.  I was both relieved and disappointed when I realized this made no sense whatsoever.

This stance is the biggest load of horseshit I have ever seen. He's a damn thief. This is a serious issue but lets disregard it because he is going to play football at Michigan. With his background he should be going to State. Typical

Jimmy Conway, Shawn Conway - honest mistake.

Under no circumstance should a kid make a bad mistake.  Ever.

/s

You don't need to apologize for not thinking it's ok to steal money from a student's locker. My hunch is that few people, including those on this website, think it's ok. The point is that everyone makes mistakes, and this one incident isn't necessarily a deal breaker, particularly if the student exhibits otherwise good behavior etc.

What would "not shrugging it off" look like? Should we wag our e-fingers at him? Should we start a petition to have his offer revoked?

What would "not making excuses" look like? Should we scold him on this and other internet sites? Dress him down in a letter?

I ordinarily detest with an unreasonably white-hot passion the phrase "it is what it is," but it seems to fit here. Kid steals some stuff, is caught, is humiliated, is not thrown in jail, appears to be remorseful, and probably understands that he's now walking the line between Baraka and Iverson (not to say that smoking weed is equivalent to allegedly hitting a woman in the head with a chair in a bowling alley melee).

Time will tell what he has learned, but what else are we supposed to do about it?

your ivory tower must be awesome.  Can I come over some time so that we can sit around and trash all of the "regular" people who have the nerve to make mistakes when they are like 17 years old?

(Insert Pryor quote here)

There will be plenty of positive (not "good," per se) news in tomorrow's recruiting update.

A player committed to play football for U of M is accused of stealing, and it's something that a primarily U of M football blog shouldn't even mention? Much less in an even and steady, non judgemental tone?

Way to lose, buddy.