OT: Oregon's Masoli charged with theft
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4983814
Should be interesting to see how Chip Kelly handles this as Oregon's PR continues to go down the toilet. Again, as I've stated before....anyone want to venture that if this was not an impact player being charged that he would have already been off the team?
Half of me says "thank you Oregon!".
The other half of me says "I hate to see college kids end up in news like this".
I'll go with the other half on this one. If true, it's sad.
What's sad is kids like him even get the opportunity in the first place. Last time this board discussed Oregon, I found a link noting that Masoli spent time in prison in high school for ARMED robbery. He should have never stepped foot on campus in Eugene. The fact that he did is what's sad. I've always been proud to attend and be a fan of a school that does it the right way. Have we had troublemakers? Yes, but to my knowledge they've always been dealt with correctly. A guy like Masoli isn't the type of player we would accept in Ann Arbor and that makes me feel good.
we've had quite a few players with similar backgrounds to masoli's
We've recruited convicted armed robbers? Really?
Did he serve his time?
You really don't think that justifies recruiting a player like that do you? I mean, look what happened. Should anyone be surprised?
I have no problem with it if he served his time.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:06 PM ^
I suppose from a strict moral sense there should be no problem in believing this.
Knowing that I would never receive a second chance at the opportunities I had earned before though makes me think there is a problem. No law school (or insert great opportunity) would ever accept me if I was convicted of such a serious offense, even if I had served my time and learned my lesson. I just see a moral inconsistency in situations like this.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:15 PM ^
"No law school (or insert great opportunity) would ever accept me if I was convicted of such a serious offense"
That's just simply not true. I know of situations where individuals committed FAR more serious offenses and were both accepted to law school and admitted to the bar.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:53 PM ^
I emailed a couple law school counselors. I am interested to hear their response. As you can probably tell by now I don't give up very easily!
March 10th, 2010 at 11:17 PM ^
Emailed law school counselors about what, exactly? I just want to make sure I understand what you were meaning by that. Were you saying that you emailed them because you didn't believe me?
March 10th, 2010 at 11:25 PM ^
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/us/09bar.html
"Shon R. Hopwood was not a particularly sophisticated bank robber.
“We would walk into a bank with firearms, tell people to get down, take the money and run,” he said the other day, recalling five robberies in rural Nebraska in 1997 and 1998 that yielded some $200,000 and more than a decade in federal prison.
Mr. Hopwood spent much of that time in the prison law library, and it turned out he was better at understanding the law than breaking it. He transformed himself into something rare at the top levels of the American bar, and unheard of behind bars: an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner."
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"Mr. Hopwood, who is 34, said he hoped to apply to law school next year. Richard Friedman, a law professor at the University of Michigan who worked with Mr. Hopwood on the briefs for a recent Supreme Court case, said that he had already talked to the admissions office there about saving a spot."
March 10th, 2010 at 11:40 PM ^
Isn't there always an extenuating circumstance? Hope it made you feel better to find it necessary to neg all of my posts though.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:56 PM ^
I posted it because it was something Michigan-related, interesting, and it happened to address your hypothetical. You're the one who was talking in absolutes; but feel free to move those goalposts.
And I've negged you zero times in your existence on this board, so I hope it made you feel better to get all paranoid. Message-board paranoid, no less.
It's not just one guy. It happens a lot more times than you would think.
March 11th, 2010 at 10:14 AM ^
"quite a few." Massoli is on the extreme side, but we have had a few.
Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I'm pretty sure RichRod tried to recruit Masoli to UofM from his community college in 2008. While a formal offer was never extended (probably because most JUCO players can't transfer their credits here), I'm pretty sure we were in the final running and had a legitimate shot to land him if we had extended an offer. (I don't know why offer wasn't extended though, whether it was because of past issues or because of the transfer issues.)
If that's true everything I just posted has blown up in my face I suppose.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:17 PM ^
Not necessarily. If Michigan cooled on him because of his past issues, then you would still be in the right.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:26 PM ^
Why do second chances pain you so?
March 10th, 2010 at 11:33 PM ^
unless you count the walk of shame
oh well cant do nothing.
You might want to change leisure activities--we can't do anything about just about everything posted here.
To be fair he only has eight points...
Very true, it's just good to have the intervention before 2000 points. I'm addicted now, and am a lost cause.
New guys need to be warned before they start getting pissed off when there are posts about similar topics three days apart.
March 11th, 2010 at 10:18 AM ^
You absolutely can do nothing.
I don't know about whether he would have gotten kicked off, but Oregon is really outdoing itself in the race for most troubled program of the offseason.
Fulmer Cup HO!
Spread offenses found to be conducive of crime
It wouldn't surprise me to see Sharp and Rosenberg move to Eugene, OR. They'd have a field day up there with all the shenanigans going on.
They'd find more to report on anywhere they go.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:27 PM ^
But probably true.
And they would find a lot more 70 miles west on I-96 if they weren't so lazy.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:32 PM ^
At least with all the robbery, assault, and drunkenness, they'd know that Oregon's not going over the practice limit.
Looks like his worst mis-read (maybe his only) this year.
Yes, they played a game this year.
it was his misplacement of the ball on a handoff to legarrette blount that caused a fumble and gave ohio st the game. oregon was poised to score on that drive (maybe even that play) and put themselves in control of the game. and then that happened...
major career/incarceration ramifications v. losing to The State University of Ohio. It's a pretty tough call. I'm thinking . . . maybe jail's not so bad by comparison?
coin flip
March 10th, 2010 at 10:42 PM ^
We're witnessing the simultaneous rise and crumbling of Oregon's football program. This team is just spiraling out of control. Chip Kelly needs to do something about it, fast.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:18 PM ^
What is it with oregons players trying to be thug life university?
One thing I've learned over the years: Never trust a player whose name begins with "Luh".
Legarrette.
LaMichael.
Latrell.
Latarian.
Bad news.
Yeah, Tomlinson turned out to be a total douchebag.... setting touchdown records and what not
March 11th, 2010 at 10:19 AM ^
Exactly.
March 11th, 2010 at 10:02 AM ^
I thought this was a pretty curious assertion when I first read it, and I got the opportunity to ask Brian Cook about this live on-air a few minutes ago on WTKA. It's fair to say that very few people on the planet follow UM recruiting more obsessively than Brian; he said in response to my query that he followed the QB recruiting in '08 extremely closely, and that this alleged RR-Masoli connection is "bunk." The only guy I can think of that might cover UM recruiting more closely than Brian is Sam Webb, and I cannot recall Webb ever mentioning Masoli either. I'm going to ask Webb next week when he's back from Indianapolis.
Do you have a source where you read this?