MSU WR Macgarrett Kings Pled Guilty to DUI in July

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Michigan State junior wide receiver Macgarrett Kings Jr. was arrested and charged with driving under the influence shortly before being suspended from the football team this spring, according to Ingham County court records.

 

Kings was arrested April 6 for driving with a blood alcohol content of more than .17. He was sentenced on July 7 to 13 months probation and a $750 fine after pleading guilty to the misdemeanor.

Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio announced April 15 that Kings had been suspended for the duration of spring practices. He was reinstated before the start of fall practice.

Dantonio indicated last Thursday that Kings had met the requirements to put himself back into good standing with the team.

"He's a playmaker and he's doing what he needs to do,'' Danntonio said, asked for an update on how Kings was doing. "He's in the mix (at receiver) and he's done the right things.''

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Rodriguesqe

August 20th, 2014 at 9:04 PM ^

Coaches know best. Dantonio has made some questionable calls, but as far as I know none have come back to haunt him.

 

Its annoying when sparties  try to armchair coach our team. Very little brother of them. 

ClearEyesFullHart

August 20th, 2014 at 9:08 PM ^

Normally I'm not the guy who implies interest by responding only to post

Who on Earth cares?

But here we are.

ADSellers

August 20th, 2014 at 9:13 PM ^

Dantonio has never been much of a disciplinarian. Chris Rucker, Rather Hall, Glen Winston, the two little dipshits who evaded police out in Colorado. The theme in East Lansing has always been slaps on the wrist since Dantonio has been in charge. No surprise that Kings is going unpunished.

ak47

August 21st, 2014 at 8:55 AM ^

Yeah I mean here at Michigan if you get a DUI you get one whole game. Sure you can keep practicing and win a starting spot but hey now you have to miss what should be the easiest game of the year. We don't get to laugh at this because our "punishment" of Glasgow is pathetic too.

Gobgoblue

August 20th, 2014 at 9:18 PM ^

Dantonio said what equates to "He's really good at football.  Oh, and he is following the terms of his probation and stuff.  So he's back on the team."

Evil Empire

August 21st, 2014 at 11:08 AM ^

Their spring practices started 3/25 and their spring game was 4/26.  So his arrest was on the 13th day of the spring practice period, his suspension was announced on the 22nd day, and the spring game was on the 33rd day.  I believe teams are allowed to practice 15 times including the spring game, so he probably missed about half of spring practice.

ypsituckyboy

August 20th, 2014 at 9:20 PM ^

.17 is not "just a few beers". That's over double the legal limit. You're not messing around at that point. You can always kill people when you drive drunk, but when you're at that level,  the odds are probably much higher. IMO, Hoke went far too light on Glasgow for a .13. This punishment? Laughable if it weren't so sad.  

SpartyinCA

August 20th, 2014 at 9:26 PM ^

It's unfortunate that it appears he won't be suspended for any games. He should at least be out through the Oregon game, if not for all of non-conference. As someone else mentioned, .17 means you are messed up. Totally inexcusable.

unWavering

August 20th, 2014 at 9:52 PM ^

"I want appropriate punishments, be they in the program or legally, administered."

I think we can all agree on that.  Missing spring practice is not really punishment.  Dantionio has had a history of light or non-existent punishments (remember Chris "out of jail Thursday, playing Saturday" Rucker?).  That is my point.  

Rodriguesqe

August 20th, 2014 at 10:01 PM ^

Its inane. Very few poeple here really care that this kid on some day in April made a stupid decision. It happens. Dantonio is doing what he thinks is best, maybe he's right, maybe he should be stricter. But we all know what the posts are really about. We don't like Dantonio and this is a reason to bring it up.

It always looks pathetic when it goes on at other boards. Can't we be a cut above. This is Michigigan fergodsakes, and stuff.

pearlw

August 20th, 2014 at 9:35 PM ^

Yep..agree with this. After every incident at any school, the most annoying thing is fans of every other team trying to compare their punishments and brag about how their coach would have dealt it more seriously and punished the guy for longer. Reality is stuff happens everywhere and the fans never know the full details of what really happened, how it was actually handled internally, or the full personal history of the person...but the fans still use it as an excuse to cherry pick incidents from their school and other schools to argue that they punish kids harder.

SaddestTailgateEver

August 20th, 2014 at 10:28 PM ^

Hear hear. All this does is lead to the inevitable argument over the meritedness of various punishments. Having participated in several of those, they are about the least fulfilling thing I can spend my time doing. And while we don't exactly have a glass house here, there are some big windows I'd prefer to not ding up...

I Love Lamp

August 20th, 2014 at 9:40 PM ^

That the NCAA will ever set punishments for offenses that occur that are set in stone for all programs? Or is it more likely that it will be left up to the individual institutions?

flashOverride

August 20th, 2014 at 9:48 PM ^

This is what kids do, and it happens at every school. It would be nothing to me if it weren't for the fact that Sparty dicks love to act like Dantonio is some tough disciplinarian and it's all but impossible to get suspended by Hoke. I'm glad he let him back so easily, hopefully it will shut them the hell up. But that's too much to ask of EL, there will be some reason this was "different", just like their student athlete rapes are "different".

dahblue

August 20th, 2014 at 10:26 PM ^

Seems like whatever dumb/bad things we do, MSU does them even worse.  We suspend one game for DUI; they do nothing.  We kick off the team for sucker punch; they drive from jail to practice.  Our star center leaves school after a positive drug test for weed; their star linebacker sits out...but refuses to admit why.  Frustrating that the press has been focused on our issues lately.

Alas, from Joe Rexrode's Twitter:

But one thing I've come to realize is internal punishment can >>> a suspension.

Yes Joe, nothing as meaningful is "internal punishment".

turd ferguson

August 21st, 2014 at 12:15 AM ^

The different media coverage that UM and MSU get is hilarious. Nationally, it's a sign of one school being high-profile and the other not, but locally I don't really get it. The difference in how the Gibbons and Payne/Appling things was one example, and if Michigan had a story that even closely resembled the Bullough thing, Jim Carty and Michael Rosenberg would probably run back to their own jobs because they smelled blood and Drew Sharp would shit himself in joy.

NOLA Wolverine

August 21st, 2014 at 12:23 AM ^

Even locally I think there's a distinct lack of Michigan State fans. Valenti always brings this up whenever he tries to talk about MSU, the phone just ain't ringing (as a side note to no one in particular, if you have decided to be morally opposed to Football Friday on 971, why do you hate yourself? It's the chicken running around with no head that keeps giving.). Calls picked up as it became clear that MSU was a BCS team last year, but it never sniffed Michigan callers. It's been a solid-to-stellar program as of late, but it just doesn't have the following.

turd ferguson

August 21st, 2014 at 6:43 AM ^

My guess is that Michigan's rivals are more bloodthirsty with Michigan than we (and others) are with them, so there's more demand for an article making Michigan look bad than one making MSU look bad. I also think there's more self-policing among UM students, alumni, faculty, fans, etc., than among the same groups for MSU. I think - and hope - that if UM had handled the Appling/Payne incident like MSU did, the UM community itself would have been in an uproar.

SECcashnassadvantage

August 21st, 2014 at 1:12 AM ^

He plays to win, and we need to pull our heads out of our asses. The "Michigan Difference" is bullshit. We need to play to win. Hoke coaches like a pussy. You know it and I know it. Today Rick on 92.5 in Jax said Michigan could play in the SEC with their 4 star recruits over the last 4 years. We have better recruits over that period than everyone except Bama, yet we are terrible. Hoke is a great guy, but a piss poor coach.