[Husker] Christensen Reinstated

[Mike Jaixen]

I agree with you on the aspect of fairness to the players.  A mere accusation of wrongdoing is insufficient.  But by that same matter, there has to be a distinction between the evidence required to incarcerate a young man for the next twenty or thirty years, versus the evidence required to end someone's football career.

Obviously, the jury felt the evidence was insufficient to convict Andy Christensen.  From what I read in media reports of the trial, I think there was sufficient evidence to remove him from the team.

Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
http://www.cornnation.com


--- On Mon, 9/8/08, Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Christensen Reinstated
> To: 
> Cc: husker at tssi.com
> Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 8:13 PM
> Mike Jaixen wrote:
> > I guess the perspective is whether you consider the
> charges to be valid or invalid based on the jury decision. 
> If you equate "not guilty" with "completely
> innocent"...it's a strong punishment.  (I don't
> subscribe to that perspective myself.)
> 
> I don't see how Bo could give the accusation any
> weight, unless he had 
> some compelling independent evidence of Christensen's
> guilt, e.g., he 
> told Bo he did it. Bo wasn't there; he can't
> possibly know what really 
> happened, and the evidence of Christensen's guilt was
> weak, as the 
> jurors said.
> 
> The image of the program is important, but so is fairness
> to the 
> players. If you decide that Christensen must be kicked off
> the team 
> because he was accused - and only accused - of a crime, no
> matter how 
> serious, I think you have set a disturbing precedent.