The Feagin Reveal
Feagin told investigators that “when I first started going to (Burke’s) house he had three big jars of weed up in his room. … One day T.J. was talking to me about some illegal stuff. He was under a lot of pressure because of his financial problems.
“I told him that I knew someone who could get him some cocaine. A few days later he asked me if I had talked to the person yet. I called right then and set up a deal.”
Feagin arranged to send $600 to a friend in Florida, whom he identified only as “Tragic.” In exchange, “Tragic” would send an ounce of cocaine to Ann Arbor.
It goes on from there. No cocaine ever showed up, this Burke guy tried to scare/murder Feagin by filling a bottle with gasoline and setting it on fire outside his dorm room, etc, etc, etc. You know, typical college stuff. Except Burke is 26. But whateva, TJ Burke does what he wants, which is apparently spend up to ten years in prison.
Feagin was a last-minute addition to Michigan's first class under Rodriguez when it became clear that Rodriguez wasn't likely to acquire a higher-rated quarterback recruit. He did not work out, obviously. The Freep article dryly notes that Feagin "struggled to learn the playbook" mere paragraphs after describing Feagin's extensive marijuana habit.
The onfield impact of Feagin's departure remains nil; the off-field stuff… well, at least when a Michigan player violates team rules he actually violates them. Woo spin!
But seriously: it's bad. It's also one guy that Michigan apparently didn't run as thorough of a background check on—or possibly any background check on—as they scrambled to reconfigure Rodriguez's first recruiting class. As long as the incident remains isolated, fine. Yes, Kurt Wermers, you get a point, which brings you up to negative four.
August 10th, 2009 at 3:02 PM ^
Didn't take it to be dickish.
August 10th, 2009 at 3:40 PM ^
Okay, I follow what you're getting at now. None the less, I think that cocaine may be too volatile to every be traded without violence, even legally.
August 10th, 2009 at 5:03 PM ^
Specifically with regards to Latin America
Venezuela...
August 10th, 2009 at 5:13 PM ^
There's some sort of large scale oil related violent unrest in Venezuela? I'd love to hear about it.
August 10th, 2009 at 5:36 PM ^
Well, there's a regime in place propped up by oil profits that has rigged elections and disenfranchised millions of voters. They set up a mechanism to identify who votes for which candidate, robbing them of anonymity, expelled Human Rights monitoring groups (http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/09/19/venezuela-human-rights-watch-dele…), peaked unemployment, and generally rolled back civil liberties. It's not killings in the poppy-fields, but its bad.
August 10th, 2009 at 6:02 PM ^
BUT CHAVEZ OFFERED TO PAY FOR GAS FOR POOR AMERICANS HE MUST BE GOOD
August 10th, 2009 at 10:13 PM ^
Americans only hear one side of the Chavez story and it's not that side.
August 10th, 2009 at 10:09 PM ^
Yeah that's all bad and you have a point, but the only time under Chavez that Venezuela was on the verge of bloodshed was in 2002 when the CIA tried to overthrow him.
August 11th, 2009 at 12:50 PM ^
I seem to remember reading of violent crack-downs during the protests around the recall vote.
But, whatever.
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