Top FL WR cited for pot possession

Submitted by Blueverine on

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000809401/article/florida-wr-antonio-callaway-cited-for-marijuana-possession?campaign=tw-cf-sf79791436-sf79791436

Well, in most cases, you'd expect a suspension from the team. Maybe he'll sit game 2 against Northern Colorado. Any suspension would lighten the load on CBs and punt coverage team. Also, his alibi in a sexual assault case doesn't help.

corundum

May 18th, 2017 at 11:45 AM ^

I think missing game time for a misdemeanor possession charge would be a little much. They should just handle it internally. He passed the sobriety test and cooperated with the officers so who cares.

MgoHillbilly

May 18th, 2017 at 11:50 AM ^

It's not internal if it's a charge like this that's made public. Imho, when staff catches guys committing misdemeanors, you're doing them a favor by not reporting them to law enforcement and punishing them internally. Most places would conduct an actual arrest for a pot charge in the south. He should face a game suspension.

And yes, I think that law is stupid, but it's still the law.

McDoomButt

May 18th, 2017 at 2:43 PM ^

Why? Let the legal system do its job. There is no moral imperative for the NCAA or football teams to enforce additional punishment, especially for stupid shit like this that shouldn't be illegal anyway.

Like if your kid gets sent to the principle's office for sneezing too much, you gonna ground em when they get home too?

WolvinLA2

May 18th, 2017 at 3:29 PM ^

Sneezing is a pretty bad example. A better one would be at my son's school, where they have different rules than I have in terms of language. He has gotten in trouble at school for saying words I'm OK with but the school says he shouldn't say. He knows those rules, so when the teacher sent home a note saying my son used words he shouldn't use, he still got punished by me.

Florida should punish Calloway in some way, to teach him that breaking rules is wrong (and dumb). Less of a "what you did was so bad" and more of a "you're an idiot."

Section 1.7

May 18th, 2017 at 8:45 PM ^

"Why? Let the legal system do its job. There is no moral imperative for the NCAA or football teams to enforce additional punishment..." 

 

Wow, that comment would have been so interesting if it had been posted in the Baylor Rape Allegations thread.

MgoHillbilly

May 18th, 2017 at 2:02 PM ^

One can be a law abiding, race-sensitive hillbilly.

I'm biased though since I earn a living off enforcement of the law. My wife and kids aren't technically white either.

However, most of my extended family are racist as hell if that helps.

Maizen

May 18th, 2017 at 11:59 AM ^

Calloway was also arrested for sexual assault in 2015 and his defense was that he was "too high to have sex." A Florida football booster was somehow able to preside over the case and he dismissed the charges.

Calloway is not a good dude.

 

DrMantisToboggan

May 18th, 2017 at 11:43 AM ^

Florida isn't overly scary to me anyways, but if they don't have Calloway they might as well forfeit. He's good for a couple successful chuck and ducks from Franks, who will need all the help he can get against our defense in his first ever game.

Blue in Paradise

May 18th, 2017 at 12:11 PM ^

It seems that a lot of UM fans are not worried about Florida.  I think we should win the game but there is a lot of talent on UF so they can beat anyone on a given Saturday.

And don't sleep on Franks, he can hurt you with his arm and legs.  That is the kind of dude that worries me.  I will be happy if someone else wins the job at UF.

DrMantisToboggan

May 18th, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^

Franks might be good one day (probably not bc Florida, McElwain, Nussmeier, etc) but what are the chances that a freshman QB plays well in his very first career game against a Don Brown defense? 5%? I'm not here to dog Franks, he might win Florida 8 or 9 games this year, but if anyone is going to make a freshman QB look extremely like a freshman QB, it's Don Brown, Rashan Gary, Mo Hurst & Company. Franks just picked a bad week to start his career.

GoBlue007

May 18th, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^

What is the distinction between an NCAA mandated test coming out positive for weed vs the Cops finding you high and in possession? Should it not carry the same penalty? Or is it a matter of jurisdiction where the NCAA desides the penalty for one of its mandated tests?  Shouldnt the UF coaches/adminstrators carry the same penalty as the NCAA (or vice versa, in which case Mitch could of played another season at Michigan, albeit miss a few games).  I just got mad at the world thinking thru all this...

PapabearBlue

May 18th, 2017 at 1:08 PM ^

It depresses me that at a fansite of such a liberal institution populated by intelligent people that you are getting downvotes. I assume because "it's illegal" really means "I want Florida to be crippled come Jerry-World". But this crap transcends sports.

AZBlue

May 18th, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^

His downvotes are most likely for making this about the his views on the issue and not the incident.  This has a lot more to do with a kid with a history doing something really dumb and getting cited by Police.  

If it was a simple "fail an in-house test and have to run stairs" situation I doubt he would be looking at a possible game suspension - at UF (or UM at least for a first offense) - in fact I doubt anyone outside the program would have ever heard about it.

I don't really give a crap about legalization either way, but I think "transcends sports" is a BIT over the top.

 

FatGuyTouchdown

May 18th, 2017 at 7:49 PM ^

too much about it. I'll live. It's not like its an epic downvote spree because I had a bad take. That's how I feel about pot, and if people don't like it, I'll live. I have a feeling most of the people downvoting were bemoaning McGary being punished for weed though. 

Huzilla

May 18th, 2017 at 11:56 AM ^

"Callaway admitted to using marijuana during an interview for a Title IX sexual assault investigation last summer, per the Times, saying he was "so stoned" that he didn't have interest in having sex with anyone. He was cleared in that case."

LDNfan

May 18th, 2017 at 12:37 PM ^

I think he should be suspended for one game for the seat belt violation..that's against the law too and pretty much just as serious as smoking weed.