Fwd: Re: [Husker] Steroids

[Andrew Smith]

I'd go further and remind people that handing out punishment for illegal 
behavior unrelated to football is NOT a coach's responsibility.  Not is 
it a coach's responsibility to take extra steps (namely, beyond legal, 
NCAA, or university requirements) to monitor and punish use of illegal 
drugs.  Anything extra a coach does is just that, extra, and something 
that should be appreciated, instead of attacked because they didn't do 
even more.

I believe that our sports would be cleaner, athletes safer, and justice 
more consistently applied if we remember that student-athletes are 
members of society first, students second, and athletes third.  
Therefore, we should focused on the actions taken by our legal system, 
then the university, and only then the coach, when a player misbehaves 
off the field.  Otherwise we expect too little of the institutions with 
the most resources, power, and responsibility, and expect too much of 
the person with the least.

Andy

Sean McGrath wrote:

>I will say in the case of Williams that he did do time but by the time
>he was convicted he was already playing for the Packers. This shows the
>pace of justice since Williams did this his freshman year. I would also
>like to point out he capped the guys car and not the guy himself. Again,
>I'm sure there was some internal punishment but Osborne has always let
>the justice system work things out before he gives an outright
>punishment. Let's remember that Damon Benning was arrested for domestic
>violence only to have the charges dropped because they were false. It
>would have sucked if Osborne punished Benning and then the charges were
>proven to be false later. 
>
>Sean
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
>Of Neal Smith
>Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:43 PM
>To: Dick Karre; husker at tssi.com
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [Husker] Steroids
>
>Brian Blankenship - motor vehicle homocide, never missed a down -  I
>think he was in jail and still played.
>Tyrone Williams - capped a guy, never missed a down.
>Broderick Thomas - banned from the dorms for violence, never missed a
>down
> 
> 
>Neal 
>
>Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net> wrote:
>Exhibit A: Riley Washington, third/fourth-string WB accused of attempted
>murder; TO suspended him for two weeks, then decided he was innocent and
>reinstated him. Washington was eventually exonerated.
>
>Exhibit B: Lawrence Phillips. Phillips was a starter, but the way TO
>treated
>him proves (to me, anyway) the point jj is making. Recall that while LP
>was
>suspended, TO didn't allow him to practice. Thus, when he was reinstated
>a
>week before NU's (presumably) toughest game (CU on the road), he wasn't
>ready to play. If TO had been concerned only with winning, you can be
>sure
>he would have had LP ready for the Buffies.
>
>Dick Karre
>dkarre at comcast.net
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "j j" 
>
>I think 99% of the time TO knew what he was doing when he punished a kid
>and
>when he let him back on the team and it wasn't always about whether the
>kid
>could help him win or not. I'm sure that there were kids that hardly
>ever
>played that were treated just the same.
>
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