evenyoubrutus

September 27th, 2018 at 2:38 PM ^

I don't know. Sometimes culture/peers influences these kids. Look at Malik McDowell. His mom did NOT want him to go to MSU over Michigan so badly that she walked out of his press conference, not because she's a crazy fan, but because she didn't trust the people he would be around and most importantly the leadership there. Looks like she was right.

youn2948

September 27th, 2018 at 3:50 PM ^

Sorry you've been living in an alternate reality where suspicion didn't automatically translate to guilt.

Innocent until proven guilty is dead in the public realm currently, especially in the media's eyes.  Unless it's a football player then usually it's the rivals calling for immediate culling even if said incident was spitting gum on a sidewalk and getting a littering fine.

CalifExile

September 27th, 2018 at 11:43 PM ^

You're crazy. I only said the article "gives no hint what evidence there might be," not that there isn't any. But tell me, there was an investigation into alleged rapes at UVA, as reported in Rolling Stone and another directed against members of the Duke lacrosse team, what evidence was there in those instances?

FauxMo

September 27th, 2018 at 2:32 PM ^

Based on that article, it could be literally anything, right? Not serious, moderately serious, very serious, or "New World Record for Victims" serial killer" 

Gitback

September 27th, 2018 at 2:45 PM ^

Exactly. 

I saw nothing in that news item that makes me exclaim "yikes."    

Could be anything from:

- they think he may have cheated on a psych 101 test, 

to

- he helped Craig James ALLEGEDLY kill five hookers.

 

Let the facts come out before we blowuptuate stuff.

SkyBlue

September 27th, 2018 at 2:51 PM ^

After reading the article UAB plays Charlotte this weekend. Even more interesting - I had no idea Charlotte is D1, has a football team, and is in C-USA.  The best part is, I clicked on the C-USA link to check it out and it took me to women’s soccer. 

Mpfnfu Ford

September 27th, 2018 at 3:07 PM ^

It's the most bizarre thing. They just started their program like 5-10ish years ago, and its shown zero signs of life. The only thing they have vaguely going for them is that Charlotte is where all the best football players in the state come from, but they are 7th in the pecking order just for colleges in NC, and that's before you start getting into the fact that the best players in state usually end up at Clemson and that South Carolina/Tennessee also recruit the state hard. 

Add to that the fact that UNC Charlotte (make sure you add the UNC part if you ever run into a UNCC person, it makes them nuts) is a commuter college with a shitty campus life compared to every other NC college. I can't figure out for the life of me what they're even trying to do with that. 

/NC Resident

Paps

September 27th, 2018 at 3:17 PM ^

As a Davidson grad, I'm just here to agree with everything you said and add an emphatic eff UNCC.  

5 in a row in hoops. 4-0 in my undergrad. Two amazing trips across town to watch the Cats win (a commute that most of their campus makes daily)  Won our last three in Halton. GO CATS 

Mpfnfu Ford

September 27th, 2018 at 3:58 PM ^

I lived in Charlotte for a bit and I was out with a friend of mine and some UNCC people. They spent no-joke a half hour bitching to me that there was a giant conspiracy from UNC and NC State to deprive Charlotte (always Charlotte, never UNCC) of the funds they needed to reach their destiny. The fact that UNCC is a backup school for kids in other parts of the state who didn't get into State/UNC or for local kids who wanted to stay close to home but couldn't get into Davidson just never occurred to them. They truly thought it was their destiny to one day be the most prestigious and greatest school in the state, if only the bastards in Raleigh and Chapel Hill would stop stealing from them.

They were so excited for football and how it would just be a matter of time before they were number one in the state. When I told them I thought they'd have a hard time ever consistently beating Appalachian they about shit themselves. I found out later they do the same thing with their basketball program when, again, they struggle to consistently beat Davidson, let alone Duke and UNC.

Dead

September 28th, 2018 at 12:12 AM ^

I grew up in Charlotte 5 minutes from the university. They've managed to sucker a few people (including my parents) into believing that they're a respectable university now, but everyone knows that what you said is true, that they're a backup school for the kids who can't get into UNC (fuck UNC) or NC State (Go Pack!). The "Charlotte" rebrand is going over about as miserably as every other Panthers season. Nobody around me ever refers to it as anything but UNCC but call it UNCC to any online Charlotte fan and they'll get in your face about it. 

HenneGivenSunday

September 27th, 2018 at 3:14 PM ^

Looks like he was 3rd on the team in carries (22 @ 4.0 ypc) and tied for 1st in rushing TD's (with just 2).  I'll be honest, that's a lot larger impact than I thought he'd make after the way he left Independence CC.