November 16th, 2016 at 1:09 PM ^
a very good friend of mine dated a Purdue football player who was recruited heavily by Michigan. There's so much shitty stuff that gets pushed under the rug at Purdue even though the team is trash. I hope justice gets delivered. This is horrible.
November 16th, 2016 at 1:21 PM ^
That's totally unique to Purdue...
November 16th, 2016 at 1:21 PM ^
November 16th, 2016 at 1:46 PM ^
Roy Roundtree and the 55-gallon drum full of snake oil with him both disagree with you...
November 16th, 2016 at 2:55 PM ^
What school did Roundtree play for in college? Not Purdue? Oh. Ok.
November 16th, 2016 at 1:47 PM ^
By "recruited heavily by Michigan," poster means "heavily wanted to be recruited by Michigan."
November 16th, 2016 at 3:07 PM ^
Michigan Recruiter: Hey. Just wanted to keep a line of communication open with you. You seem like a good ball player.
Eventual Boilermaker: Yes. Yes! Thanks. I'd love to play for a program like Michigan.
Michigan Recruiter: Great. Great. Well good talking to ya. Looks like you'll have plenty of options and some good schools to choose from. Soooo...
Eventual Boilermaker: Yeah! Yeah. Well I'd love to get up there and check out your campusss...
Michigan Recruiter: Yeah. Well. Ok. Listen - you stick with your program and looks like some good things are ahead of you..take care, now. Alright. [click]
Evetual Boilermaker: Super. Look forward to....oh. Ok. [click]
[Best case - this is the very last conversation Eventual Boilermaker had with a mid-level UM recruiter]
November 16th, 2016 at 4:46 PM ^
There is one that had a committable offer from Michigan but chose Purdue because his dad went there.
November 16th, 2016 at 9:04 PM ^
Why is Gelen half a foot shorter than his brother anyway ? Odd.
November 16th, 2016 at 11:57 PM ^
Give GR3 40 pounds and he'd be one fuckin hell of a defensive end.
November 16th, 2016 at 4:49 PM ^
I think the only intersection for that Venn diagram (at least in the last 5 years) is Gelen Robinson...and even then Magnus is just going to reply and tell me that we never really wanted him he sucked and it was a favor to his brother.
November 16th, 2016 at 1:22 PM ^
Wait so no arrests have been made and there has been no Title IX hearing with the school yet, but the law firm is pushing to expel the students? Nice way to blow your credibility as a firm.
November 16th, 2016 at 1:24 PM ^
If the Duke Lacrosse case showed us anything, is that INNOCENT until proven guilty NEEDS to be our stance.
This does not discount the victims claims, but without any sort of legal proceedings or even Title IX hearings going on - we need to keep this in mind.
November 16th, 2016 at 1:30 PM ^
People forget that...
November 16th, 2016 at 8:32 PM ^
....agreed, but hopefully purdue doesn't turn into another baylor. The B1G is living with one blemish of a school, hopefully it is not two.
November 16th, 2016 at 5:34 PM ^
November 16th, 2016 at 1:29 PM ^
We have an adversarial system. The players can make their own arguments.
November 16th, 2016 at 1:40 PM ^
The firm is demanding punishment without any sort of process. That argument is asinine even by small plaintiffs' firm standards - don't think I need to hear from the players on that one.
The firm can say any dumb thing they want, of course, and zealous advocacy is great, but people are allowed to think statements like those are dumb.
November 16th, 2016 at 1:35 PM ^
What is the plaintiffs' lawyer supposed to say here? "Well, we have our clients who seem kinda sorta believable to us, so we filed the suit. But we still think that they defendants should be out in society, perhaps committing crimes, perhaps not. Who's to say, and who are we to judge?"
The plaintiffs' lawyer has an obligation to zealously advocate for the firm's clients. And the firm's clients are accusing the players of sexual assault. It's the school and law enforcement's obligation to ensure that due process concerns are balanced with student safety concerns.
(And it's the school and law enforcement - including a dopey prosecutor - that made such a hash of the Duke lacrosse case.)
November 16th, 2016 at 1:39 PM ^
Negged.
In our adversarial system, law firms are not the arbiters of justice. Firms have a duty to serve their clients' interests. This firm is doing that.
The school and court system will determine their guilt.
This law firm did not, in any way whatsoever, damage its credibility.
November 16th, 2016 at 2:00 PM ^
That's true. I made my comment in haste. I just think that it opens up the firm to scrutiny and a possible defamation lawsuit by making such a bold statement if there ends up not being enough evidence.
Or would this be covered by Litigation Privilege? I'm by no means a lawyer, just trying to learn.
November 16th, 2016 at 2:08 PM ^
They didn't even name the players. Is the entire football program going to sue?
November 16th, 2016 at 2:21 PM ^
They suspended the four from the team as soon as this report was released.
November 16th, 2016 at 7:58 PM ^
November 16th, 2016 at 7:59 PM ^
November 16th, 2016 at 1:31 PM ^
“If there are others out there who have been victimized in this manner, we encourage them to contact us to get the justice they deserve."
I do hope that if there is other victims they get the help and justice they deserve, but this reads more like a daytime infomercial for a law firm. I wonder if it could have been worded better to avoid that.
November 16th, 2016 at 1:54 PM ^
Expelled before any proceedings? Ridiculous. Not taking an additional snap in a game or on the practice field until this is cleared up? Totally justified.
November 16th, 2016 at 3:07 PM ^
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