Bri'onte Dunn's drug test clean, father states.

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August 1st, 2012 at 11:27 AM
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Bri'onte Dunn's drug test clean, father states.

Yesterday, I provoked a bit of fun with the (true) news that the possible pot/paraphernalia charges (misdemeanors) were dropped.  I never thought that the story was a big deal (and I said as much), but I also thought that it was funny as hell, to picture the mom of a 6'2" 220-lb. Ohio State freshman football player pleading with cops on the street in Alliance, Ohio that the pot in the car was already there.  I still think so.  It's a funny story.  Of course, no one should have ever jumped to any grand judgments about Dunn, Urban Meyer or Ohio State in any event.

Now, honesty and fairness demands an update to the story, from the Twitter News Network.  And I am more than happy to supply it.  Via a Tweet of a statement originating from one Brion Dunn, father to Bri'onte:

Brionte Dunn's drug test in Columbus comes back clean his father said. Story upcoming on

https://twitter.com/toddporter/status/230670198162747394 

If there's more to the story, that's fine.  And actually, the facts as currently presented (misdemeanor traffic violation; allegation of drug paraphenalia, dropped; drug test, passed) all makes it hard for me to picture what discipline, if any, Meyer might propose.  I expect that at this time, it is all left up to the team.  Meyer can demand a non-legal explanation from Dunn what went down, and he can give him a stern talking-to about the kind of publicity it all brought to OSU football.  "Team rules" are different from violations of Ohio law.

Update: The Canton paper updates:

http://www.cantonrep.com/sports/x521646933/Brionte-Dunn-passes-drug-test-in-Columbus 

 

 

 

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August 1st, 2012 at 11:29 AM | What does Bri'onte Dunn have (Score:5 Normal)
icefins26
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What does Bri'onte Dunn have to do with MGoBlog?  We recruited him and his cousin is Dymonte?  

/thatguy

August 1st, 2012 at 11:34 AM | I feel for the guy. (Score:1 Overrated)
lakeside
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Busted running light and he gets caught up in national news. Plus, how does any of this lead to him needing a drug test?

Man ball. Formerly, somebody else.

August 1st, 2012 at 11:39 AM | Drug test (Score:4 Normal)
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Car had pot. He claimed it was not his. A drug test seems like it may be relevant to me.

August 1st, 2012 at 2:22 PM | How is it relevant? (Score:3 Normal)
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Pot stays in your system for days to weeks. A positive test does not prove the contraband was his. For that matter, a negative test does not prove that it wasn't his.

Man ball. Formerly, somebody else.

August 1st, 2012 at 11:38 AM | It's early august. (Score:2 Normal)
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Not much else going on, so I personally don't mind discussion topics that are only tangentially relevant or that only appeal to the interests of a small percentage o posters. I could see not posting this if it were during the season, but during these final weeks of slow news before the season build-up starts, why not?

August 1st, 2012 at 11:32 AM | Much ado about nothing, it (Score:-1 Overrated)
August 1st, 2012 at 11:35 AM | What lesson would that be? (Score:5 Normal)
unWavering
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What lesson would that be?  Check over your mom's car for her weed before you drive it?

August 1st, 2012 at 11:42 AM | That's one.  I bet he checks (Score:2)
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That's one.  I bet he checks it the next time.

 

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August 1st, 2012 at 12:00 PM | I actually feel bad for the kid... (Score:2 Normal)
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I remember a cop pulling me over and finding my dad's joint all those years ago... I got lucky though because no one know who i was and the cop believed me, crushed the joint, and let me go...

jdon

 

We are the dead.

August 1st, 2012 at 12:17 PM | Back in 85 or 86.... (Score:3 Normal)
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Myself and a "caravan" of 2 cars/10 guys were driving up north from Ann Arbor for a weekend at a cabin.  We had an open case in the car and all of us were drinking - except the driver.  We also had cases of beer in the trunk of both cars.  We got pulled over in St. John's, had our beers poured out, each received a short lecture in the back of the squad car, and the officer confiscated the other unopened cases.  No tickets, no arrests, no record. 

Oh how I miss the old days.

EDIT:  by miss the old days I mean the police were willing to handle this without arrests, jail, court dates, huge fines, ridiculouos increases in insurance premiums, etc.   None of us were drunk, clearly.  In hindsight, it was a dumb thing to do, but we were smart enough to A) not let the driver drink and B) not get shit faced on the road.

"the Spirit of Michigan...is based on a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways....and a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours" - Fielding Yost
August 1st, 2012 at 12:59 PM | Word to the wise (Score:2 Normal)
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Be very careful in St. Johns and Clinton County.  Court and probation officers are a mofo.  Probation officer had a sign above her desk that said " Deny Satan, Repent".  No joke!

 

Son got pulled over for a DUI.

docraider

August 1st, 2012 at 1:11 PM | I haven't been back since. (Score:2)
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I haven't been back since.

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August 1st, 2012 at 4:04 PM | tough task since one can put their weed almost anywhere (Score:1)
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August 1st, 2012 at 11:35 AM | It's weed. Who cares? (Score:5 Normal)
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It's weed. Who cares?

Vice.com

August 1st, 2012 at 11:36 AM | Usually, the police. (Score:5 Normal)
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Usually, the police.

August 1st, 2012 at 12:22 PM | I'd share with Mr. Sumner, (Score:4 Normal)
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I'd share with Mr. Sumner, but the rest of those hooligans can find their own damn bud.

It ain't easy being cheesy

August 1st, 2012 at 11:38 AM | . (Score:2 Normal)
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For one, college coaches typically care.

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August 1st, 2012 at 12:14 PM | Not me (Score:3 Normal)
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Bears Beets Battlestar Galactica

August 1st, 2012 at 11:36 AM | I think we should let the (Score:3 Normal)
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I think we should let the story die.  Even if he tested positive, it's not like he'd have been suspended all season long.  We'll face him regardless.

 

August 1st, 2012 at 12:08 PM | Does this (Score:-1 Overrated)
August 1st, 2012 at 12:16 PM | Well I posted the original story yesterday. (Score:1 Normal)
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And yeah, ESPN deemed it newsworthy too.

And at that time, I speculated that a urine test would be likely as well as possibly dispositive.  Seems the OSU athletic department thought the same.

And yeah I think fairness demanded a like post, in a like place and manner, that a drug test was apparently cleared.  It is precisely what we'd do for one of our guys.  Because it's fair and accurate to do so.

Anyway, logging on to the MGoBoard allowed me to get the update on Notre Dame suspensions, women's gymnastics in the Olympics and the new James Bond video.

 

 

August 1st, 2012 at 12:10 PM | Typical Buckeye!! (Score:-1 Trolling)
August 1st, 2012 at 12:29 PM | Note to self (Score:2 Normal)
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 Note to self, testing negative on a drug test means you smoke weed....

 

 I think you need to double check your logic.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

August 1st, 2012 at 1:59 PM | Jeebus. (Score:4 Normal)
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Enough with this "typical Buckeye" bs. If he had chosen Michigan you'd be among his biggest defenders, probably.



Turn off the homer.

If the haters don't hate you then you're doing something wrong. - David Cone

August 1st, 2012 at 12:18 PM | Bloden to LSU. Haplea to FSU. (Score:1 Normal)
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Bloden to LSU. Haplea to FSU. Fortt to Cal.

Someone should start a thread:

What's your over under on transfers before 9/1?

August 1st, 2012 at 12:32 PM | I'm glad the kid was clean (Score:2 Normal)
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I'm glad the kid was clean and he evidently told the truth. Plus, in a year or two, when he transfers to Michigan after realizing Meyer actually doesn't know how to to use a big RB in his offense it's best this isn't in his background.

There are no corners in space.

August 1st, 2012 at 2:55 PM | pssst. FYI. He can't transfer (Score:1)
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pssst. FYI. He can't transfer to mich. He'd have to go outside the B1g

August 1st, 2012 at 5:30 PM | Actually I think the Big Ten (Score:1)
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Actually I think the Big Ten repealed that rule, you can now transfer in the conference, and not have to pay your own way

If you're doing nothing, how do you know when you're finished?

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August 1st, 2012 at 12:44 PM | "Newsworthy?" (Score:1)
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In this day and age, it was newsworthy.  Thirty or forty years ago, like that used to get "swept under the carpet," but in today's tabloid universe, it's all "fair game."  

When he was stopped and there were drugs in the car, it was newsworthy.  If he has, indeed, tested clean, it's also newsworthy, if only to downgrade the status of the original traffic stop to "not newsworthy."

 

 

 

August 1st, 2012 at 3:07 PM | In this day and age ANYTHING (Score:1)
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In this day and age ANYTHING is deemed newsworthy. With internet, blogging, and total access available, there is always someone available to justify their existence with trash stories.

August 1st, 2012 at 12:55 PM | Dunn is fine, but the car needs to be disciplined (Score:3 Normal)
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The car itself should be banned from the campus for at least a year.

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August 1st, 2012 at 1:57 PM | Well... (Score:2 Normal)
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Isn't that what happened to Terrelle Pryor's Dodge such that he had to get the 350z?

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August 1st, 2012 at 12:57 PM | Maybe he drank water non-stop (Score:1)
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Maybe he drank water non-stop the past few days?

"Ohio is like a giant turd that Michigan just can't pinch off"

August 1st, 2012 at 1:15 PM | If you do that your test (Score:1)
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If you do that your test comes back as "diluted" which according to the courts is a fail. My friend got a DUI, doesn't even do drugs btw, he was training for a marathon so he was drinking lots of water. Tested "diluted" and was sent to jail for a probation violation. Of course what a PO does aabout a violation is at their discretion but this was more about the testing so I digress .(ramble much general lol)

August 1st, 2012 at 3:58 PM | Don't really have any knowledge about it (Score:1)
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Just had a buddy pass tests two times by doing that. His parents were pretty dumb though.

"Ohio is like a giant turd that Michigan just can't pinch off"

August 1st, 2012 at 1:10 PM | Totally figured his dad would (Score:4 Funny)
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Totally figured his dad would tell the media that his son failed a drug test.... this story is a shocker....great investigative journalism...

August 1st, 2012 at 1:10 PM | This thread is more (Score:1)
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This thread is more appropriate than the first. Now that the details are in the kid certainly deserves having his name cleared. Thanks to the OP

August 1st, 2012 at 1:22 PM | Yes (Score:1)
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I thought this thread was clearly better than the first...I was just grumpy because typically these types of posts are filled with comments ripping on the bucks and in this case Dunn which isn't a good thing for say dymonte to read....certain posters jabbing at his cuz....this post does not contain any of such...hats off to section1...

Denard Robinson......They're not going to catch him!

August 1st, 2012 at 1:30 PM | So we're taking the words of (Score:2 Normal)
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So we're taking the words of someone's parent that he didn't fail a drug test? What is this, a 5th grade field trip to the zoo? "Just bring a note from your dad that you don't smoke pot and we're good to go!" I mean I couldn't care less that a college kid is smoking weed but if he really passed a test, shouldn't his dad have, you know, proof?

August 1st, 2012 at 1:54 PM | Hmmmmm.... (Score:3 Normal)
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Not like his dad would be in a good place if he lied.



Let it go, there is no win for the dad lying.

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August 1st, 2012 at 2:55 PM | No win?  I think there would (Score:1)
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No win?  I think there would be a lot of win, like not having people think he failed a drug test. 

August 1st, 2012 at 6:41 PM | sure... (Score:2 Normal)
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Until the team suspends him if the test *was* positive.

Maybe that would be a problem.

If the haters don't hate you then you're doing something wrong. - David Cone

August 1st, 2012 at 4:43 PM | So he was just holding it for (Score:2)
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So he was just holding it for someone else. Awfully nice of him to drive on the weed run since he apparently does not use.

Abort, Retry, Fail?

August 1st, 2012 at 4:49 PM | Thumbs up (Score:1)
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On your fair and balanced reporting.

August 1st, 2012 at 5:03 PM | Son get me that money. (Score:1)
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Nothing here...... move on... Ohio style

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August 1st, 2012 at 7:13 PM | So..whose pot was it then? (Score:1)
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just a coincidence?

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