OT - Tough week for Texas Football.
According to Yahoo Sports, Texas has dismissed three players from the football team. Sophomores DB Chevoski Collins and RB Jalen Overstreet were both dismissed for violation of team rules. Senior Joe Bergeron was also dismissed. It appears he may have been for academic reasons.
Also Junior WR Kendall Sanders and Sophomore WR Montrel Meander were indefinitely suspended for sexual assault. Sanders also faces a charge of improper photography so I think there could be plenty of evidence against them. They also were texting each other during police interviews to get their story straight. Expect them to be dismissed also.
There are more details on the sexual assault here.
Here is the link to the police report on the sexual assault.
Edit: Since this was posted Senior Safety Josh Turner and Senior LB Kendall Thompson have also been dismissed. We are now up to 5 dismisals and 2 indefinite suspensions.
Edit 2: Kendall Thompson was dismissed because of multiple concussions.
How dumb does someone have to be to text during police interviews? Or even before interviews...
I nominate both for the Darwin award.
The better question is how dumb do you have to be to comply with a police interview?
On a lighter note:
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And I thought Jeff Ryan was bad...
Alabama even misspells better than Texsa and Oiho.
Rol tyd.
I'm not sure how fair a shake he's going to get here.
to that conclusion, and why wouldn't he get a fair shake?
Eh, it's easy enough to make the argument that Strong is still cleaning house and setting the new culture in the post-Brown program.
I did just have a thought. I wonder how much of Muschamp's continued problems at Florida are from him cleaning house a little too vigorously. I think Meyer's program had a much more rotten center than Brown's UT program, for sure, but didn't Muschamp dismiss something like 20+ players over the first two seasons he was at Florida? I wonder how much of his struggles are because he brought the hammer down too hard, too fast, and if Strong might be putting himself in a similar situation (not just dismissing players, but making the entire team leave their apartments and move into dorms is pretty extreme for a program that didn't seem to have any more discipline concerns than your typical large program).
He may be cleaning house and trying to create a new culture. But, Texas is 8 scholarships over the limit. It's really easy to dismiss players when you have to.
involved. Some obviously are not up to his discretion though. I didn't like the use of the term dismissed from the team in the case of Kendall Thompson. It sounds like his scholarship was yanked for having concussions. If so, additional proof that some reforms should have been made long ago.
go on jihad and weed out more malcontents. This is going to be ugly...
Mack is probably at home smiling getting ready to ink his ABC sports deal
those were his players that were involved. Their bad acts are as much a reflection on him as anybody else in the LH Nation.
since you posted the link.
I updated the original post. I somehow feel it may not be for the last time.
HOOKEM HERMS
One of my favorite sideline interviews ever is still one with McConaughey during some UT game (don't remember which), and he told the reporter that it was "the best game I've seen on grass." There was a good pause while the reporter mulled that over before going back to the booth.
Well, that would probably explain why I was watching it.
ahh the famed double post-
I remember my first time posting on a blog!
Cosidering what happened here the last time a coach came in here and changed the "country club atmosphere" that some decried, that's very funny.
Strong wins 6 conference games in 3 years, he probably won't last at Texas either.
Strong has more than a mild interest in fielding a legitimate defense, so I think he has a better chance.
is no joke, and he is cleaning house, as mentioned by other posters (see similar events at Florida post UrbanM).
As others have noted, some of these moves were obviously forced on Strong, but it does feel like he's cleaning house while also (maybe unintentionally) doing some roster management givent the scholarship situation.
Regardless, good to see him laying down the law on some of these kids.
Have any of you read the affidavit detailing the assault? It's gut-wrenching.
Yeah, and she revoked consent from the first one, so you know you're going to hear "well, she just regretted it the next day."
reminiscent of the Jameis Winston case, and we know how that turned out.
involved in both cases. The difference is FSU covered it up and the phones were "lost". I think these two are in serious trouble and rightfully so if the allegations are true.
Maybe Oklahoma will pick up a couple of these guys.
I have no evidence or first-hand knowledge, but something tells me the Charlie Strong experiement in Texas is going to end like Rich Rod's tenure at Michigan. He just does not seem like "Texas" to me, and that's coming from someone who thought the "he's not a Michigan Man" crowd was insane.
I hope I'm wrong, because I like it when Texas is good; furthermore, I love when A&M is bad. If I had it my way, I'd like to see a four team playoff every year of: Michigan, USC, Texas, and Ohio State/Notre Dame - but that's just me.
If they had gone to Ohio State, none of this would have been a problem.
The only person to ever do anything bad at OSU was the marching band director.
I believe that Strong dismissed two additional players during the Longhorns' spring session as well, which would up the total to seven dismissals since he took over. In addition, BurntOrangeNation mentioned that Overstreet and Collins are repeat offenders when it comes to whatever rule was indeed violated, so there is that as well.
The vast majority of the police are good. There are a few bad apples just like there are in anything else.
That's true, and true of most groups. My issue is the way they circle the wagons whenever one of them does something bad. If good cops were more willing to hold bad cops accountable like they should, then I'd be more inclined to be convinced by the couple of bad apples argument.
There could be more bad news on the way that isn't officially public yet. A couple of key players supposedly had dinner with an agent a few weeks ago. I'm sure UT fans can't wait for this summer to end.