[NU Sports] Maurice Clarett

[Hakirsch at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/9/2006 4:49:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jleonard518 at yahoo.com writes:

> Fellow Wildcat Faithful,
> 
> Normally a news story about the downfall of a conference foe (or ND) gives 
> me a
> feeling of schadenfreude. However, I must say that I could take no delight 
> from
> the news today that Maurice Clarett was arrested again. Not just arrested
> actually, this came with all the trimmings (guns, booze, mace, chase,
> helicopter, etc). 
> 
> tOSU is certainly not responsible for his recent actions, but I can't help 
> but
> think that the warning signs were there during his one year in Columbus. I 
> just
> get the feeling that tOSU needed him to win, so they used him for football 
> and
> ignored all of the other negative aspects of his character. 
> 
> College coaches spend too much time with their athletes not to know which 
> ones
> need more attention and structure. If they cared about Clarett as a person,
> they probably would have redshirted him and got him a counselor and a tutor. 
> 
> 
> Are the tOSU coaches responsible for his arrest yesterday? No. Are they
> responsible for the fact that he didn't stay at Ohio State and eventually 
> move
> on to the NFL (or some other non-criminal job)? I say, yes. 
> 
> Victory &Honor,
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
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I am sure as far as OSU is concerned , the price  was worth their 1st 
national title in 35 years

Harry