The nose tackle and receiver made a mockery last week out of coach Mark Dantonio's standards of discipline and should face strict punishment. [ . . . ]
Based on what we all know in reports, it appears Wilson, a junior from New Jersey, and White, a redshirt freshman from Livonia, did their best to keep their involvement in the alleged altercation a secret. Both these players had plenty of time to fess up to the coaching staff and teammates who were preparing for the Alamo Bowl for more than a month.
Now that it's out in the open, this coach has every right to strike the hammer down hard on both players.
Two MSU football players deserve stricter punishment | detnews.com | The Detroit News
Eric Lacy doesn't mince words, and I agree with him. If the truth is as it appears, Oren Wilson essentially hid his involvement in the fight/altercation/whatever it was and played in the Alamo Bowl while so many of his teammates were suspended. Also, what does this say about the other suspended players? Unless they somehow weren't aware that Wilson and White were there (completely improbable), many of them didn't exactly tell Dantonio the whole truth when coming clean. Just when you think the situation can't get any worse ... ugh.
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Why?
If Dantonio was going to kick everyone off the team who lied, I think more would already be gone, no? Wilson and White should get more punishment than the bunch that were suspended from the bowl, but I don’t know why they need to be kicked off the team.
I’m frankly sick off all calls to kick football players off the team.
by witless chum on Jan 31, 2010 11:30 PM CST up reply actions
After sleeping on it a bit
I think my reaction might have been a bit excessive. I’m just sick of hearing this get worse and worse, and the fact that there was a previous similar incident (the Sturges beating last year – and Winston was not the only one involved in that, he was just the one who did the worst of it; it seems that the rest are forgotten because of him) makes me worry that we have to make an example of those involved to make sure this won’t happen again. I would not be calling for anyone’s head if this was the first incident, but something needs to be done to get the message across that brawls like this will not be tolerated, because they sure didn’t seem to get the message the first time. Maybe booting Winston and Jenrette because they had a history and suspending everyone else will do it; I certainly hope so. But I don’t feel confident about that.
. . . then that would obviously
reflect very poorly on Dantonio.
PP-TPW.
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by LVS on Feb 1, 2010 4:29 PM CST up reply actions
is that different than the first winston event?
glenn winston played after the fight, before he went to court. he wasn’t suspended until after convicted and serving time. i would not be surprised if dantonio knew about wilson and white, and played them because no charges had been filed. i would be surprised if he didn’t suspend or dismiss them if he was finding out about their involvement just now.
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