turbo cool

April 4th, 2009 at 10:37 PM ^

i think we can all agree that college kids get stupid drunk. but at the same point, not every college kid will make headlines on ESPN for getting a public intox. this kid just hasn't learned from anything in the past. regardless, he's not our player anymore so oh well..

Tater

April 4th, 2009 at 10:50 PM ^

I still think Mallett is a whiny Momma's boy, but I also think the charges were bullshit, and that some Arkansas cop is really, really full of himself right now because he "brought down a celebrity." Is there really anyone here who hasn't been publically intoxicated at some point? I will save my comtempt for Mallett for something a lot more amusing than a bogus arrest by an overzealous cop.

The FannMan

April 4th, 2009 at 10:50 PM ^

I'm sure none of us ever walked around drunk during college. As Turbo Cool says - he isn't on our team any more. Nor does he play for a rival, so who cares?

Maximinus Thrax

April 5th, 2009 at 1:29 AM ^

As somebody who has been to college I can assure the rest of you that you don't get arrested for being drunk. You get arrested for being belligerent. Like how Mallett was belligerent with Lloyd. Face it all you ostensibly positive lovers of UM transfers, ("player X transferred but golly what a good guy he was and best wishes to him) this bastard would have been an embarrasment to our program. Fuck Mallett forever. Yes he had a cannon. So fucking what. Arkansas will not be shit with him at the helm. UM will surpass his deeds in 2009.

Sommy

April 5th, 2009 at 3:28 AM ^

Totally, totally agree. I shouldn't give a shit since he doesn't play for Michigan anymore, but in the one semester he was on campus before I graduated, I'd heard so many "This guy is a complete and utter prick" stories specifically about Mallett from multiple sources that it's pretty hard to merely chalk it up to being a kid -- and that was before he even played at all. I shouldn't even need to bring up the stuff that went on during the '07 season, and his transfer was a circus. Dude had "locker room cancer" written all over him. Good riddance. He and Boren are about the only two Michigan expatriates you'll ever hear me say that about.

MechE

April 5th, 2009 at 11:44 AM ^

How was his transfer a circus? He said he sat down and talked with RRod and decided he wouldn't fit into the new offensive scheme, requested to be let go, and RRod granted it. That's a pretty mild circus if you ask me.

Sommy

April 5th, 2009 at 3:17 PM ^

You're kidding, right? I distinctly remember transfer rumors starting immediately after he got to campus, subsiding, starting again in the middle of the season when Lloyd supposedly threw transfer papers in his face somewhere around the time where Manningham was yelling at him on the sidelines, subsiding again, starting again immediately after Lloyd retired and did not go away until he finally transferred. Not to mention the stories floating around when RR was pursuing Pryor. Granted, these are just rumors, but as everyone on this board has seen for the past year and a half, where there's smoke, there's fire. Circus.

Magnus

April 5th, 2009 at 3:38 PM ^

If the events that occurred involved unsubstantiated rumors that weren't heard by many, I'd say "circus" is an overstatement. I visit this site (and others) every day and I never heard any transfer rumors when Manningham chewed out Mallett. The transfer rumors popped up shortly after Mallett got here and people said he didn't like the cold. He never said anything public about it. After Rodriguez came on board, Mallett announced he didn't want to stay. Whether that decision was made before or after the end of the season, I don't know. But if that's your definition of a "circus" then you've been to some pretty shitty circuses. There must have just been a guy in a tophat in a Gander Mountain pup tent juggling a couple billiard balls with a wind-up music box in the corner.