Top FL WR cited for pot possession
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.
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.
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.
does NOT check out.
still no.
Tell that to Harriet Tubman.
as I tend to be lax on marijuana charges. A part of me though does still recognize that regardless of how harmless or common it is, it is still the law, so if nothing else, a suspension for not being able to follow simple rules wouldn't bother me.
There are all kinds of terrible things that "used to be the law". None of those should have ever been enforced.
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?
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."
(for getting caught)
"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.
Fuck it. They should suspend him for an entire year.
I think you are confused - this story is not about one of our WRs, but one of Florida's, which is our opponent for the first game of the season. We think about punishments differently for teams we will be playing or teams we just generally don't like. Hope that helps.
But even though this sounds rancorous, you have to know that the NCAA or Big Ten would be chucking spears if this happened at at least some Big Ten schools, so I'd be fine with a one-game suspension.
Not sure I'd use the phrase "chucking spears".
"Hurling tridents." Better?
Lobbing rubber chickens would be better.
Good god man, enough with the Username incongruity!
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.
but at least that nudges the Username<=> comment content polarity back towards some imaginary alignment. Whew
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.
But I can confirm that "too high to have sex" is possible.
Especially with cocaine.
Which luckily does not interact with viagra.
"Too high to have sex" on pot is definitely pretty fucking high. Normally, it just makes sex that much better.
I don't think it's possible to smoke that much weed.
And I've tried.
It's not his first time getting stoned. During the sexual assault investigation into him a while back he admitted he was "too stoned" to assault anyone.
McElwain said if his drug use becomes habitual there would be serious consequences
I guess we will see
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.
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.
I'll believe Florida has competent QB play once they show it. Gainesville is where highly ranked QBs go to die.
But I saw this kid in high school play live and he is a true dual threat. I am only worried that he could bust open a few plays with his feet and change the game.
In either case, Michigan should win the game but I just don't think it is a cakewalk.
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.
We lost McGary because he tested positive. Shouldn't being found with marijuana that you say is yours also trigger a suspension?
NCAA mandated drug test
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...
He will sit out the 2nd game if the season
Punishment is having to attend all of his classes for a week.
if they don't suspend him. It's weed for chrissakes. I'm all for big time programs sliding weed charges under the carpet.
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.
Is this your first time posting on the board? Anonymous down votes are de minimus to your life and certainly not worthy of depression, even hyperbolic depression.
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.
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.
Mcilwains track record suggests he may suspend him. But if he doesn't, I'm fine with it.
"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."
Happens to the best of us.
Per the Florida 247 board this is his second pot offense. Some are expecting him to miss our game. We shall see.
For the first play of the game. For the entire first drive(if UM receives ball first).
If UM receives the ball first and are forced to punt, would that entire first drive include the punt?
Yes, but not the punt return.
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.
The hyperbole of your statement is mindblowing. Not wearing a seatbelt is way more serious than smoking weed.
& it almost always leads to jaywalking & loitering. Just 1 small step from MANSLAUGHTER!