OT: Tide Clear Scholarship Room by Punting Thieves
Four players were kicked off the team for assorted forms of larceny
Pettway, Williams and Hayes are charged with two counts of second-degree robbery. Williams and Calloway are charged with fraudulent use of a credit card.
Williams confessed to robbing a student who was punched in the head and face and kicked in the ribs and back. He said Pettway and Hayes watched him commit another robbery from a nearby vehicle about an hour later.
Hide your kids Hide your wives
BONUS SEC COVERAGE: Per the WWL, Georgia has lost the 9th member of a 19 player recruiting class from 2010. Attrition exists outside of Ann Arbor. YAY!
February 27th, 2013 at 3:44 PM ^
In the SEC and Cbus, playing football gives you a free pass to act as you wish without consequence. There's absolutely no accountability in these webs of deceit. Moral obligation as a player is rare, and academic obligation is basically nonexistent.
And now you can begin to understand "The Michigan Difference".
February 27th, 2013 at 3:52 PM ^
You really believe that he would have kept these kids if they hadnt been kicked out of school? I cant believe that. I hope you are trolling.
February 27th, 2013 at 3:23 PM ^
Good move on Saban's part, but I still hate him.
February 27th, 2013 at 3:43 PM ^
and coached at Mississippi State, no one would care. Not to mention, holding up Saban as the posterchild for oversigning is like making Andy Pettite the posterchild for PEDs. The only evidence that Saban has forced anything onto anyone is the NYT article that had very questionable integrity. He's easy to hate, I get it. I'm no fan of Saban, but following every roster decision he makes to try and uncover some dirt on him is silly. FTR, I realize that this thread was created at least partially for humor and the OP likely doesn't think Saban kicked the players off the team to clear roster spots. This is just something that has been annoying me for a while.
February 27th, 2013 at 3:56 PM ^
he still has 6 more players to get rid of to get to 85.
February 27th, 2013 at 4:02 PM ^
Woodson is suspended. Atchison, Bonds, Orr, and Ming will all graduate in the spring.
February 27th, 2013 at 5:00 PM ^
i will just put out this torch and lay this pitchfork over there, where i found it.
for anyone else, the 4 dudes trey speaks of will not be asked back for a 5th year.
February 27th, 2013 at 6:17 PM ^
Like picture - very funny
February 27th, 2013 at 4:27 PM ^
Saban didn't do crap other than follow along with the University's Judicial Review ruling (as if he had a choice). The fact is that the University kicked them out and, of course, Saban is just spinning it like he did something disciplinarian. He didn't do squat.
February 27th, 2013 at 5:15 PM ^
mgoblog has gone downhill if my half-assed, .5 second title that doesn't even ignore WHY the kids were kicked off receives more commentary than the actual topic.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
February 27th, 2013 at 5:28 PM ^
I'm sure that this helps Saban's cause, but booting a couple of guys guilty of robbing doesn't strike me as repeatable "roster management." Now, when a third-string LB gets pinched for missing curfew by 10 minutes, then we'll have something to complain about.
February 27th, 2013 at 7:14 PM ^
Fact that the school kicked them out means saban just followed what already was directed by the school.
Oversigning...well it's roster management and what needs to be addressed isn't the 25 per yr limit but it needs to be 25 plus 3 in a yr or 85 total plus 3... that way if you only have 15 available scholarships and you can't still sign 28 something the sec is still doing.
February 27th, 2013 at 7:37 PM ^
why should we "hide our kids" and "hide our wives"?
February 27th, 2013 at 8:14 PM ^
If you want to define a position of luxury this is an example of it. These guys are mostly well recruited guys, who couldnt make the two deep. Their dismissal means nothing probably and allows them to reload.
That said. That is the luxury of being the best and getting who you want. This would not be something we could afford.
However our coaches would do the same thing. So dont think you can fault Saban.
February 27th, 2013 at 9:23 PM ^