The worst part of that game, by far, has been the sense by Duck fans that they don’t need to even attempt wit anymore.

Your mascot is insufficiently pedophile. I suggest you change that.

but the link per se. It’s the kind of thing I’d expect from up in seattle, but not from Golden Blogs.

came when he condemned Kelly for wanting to wait till the facts are out on the LMJ situation with something along the lines of, “Hey Coach, he’s already been jailed, charged and out on bail. Doesn’t that sound like facts to you?” I would quote it exactly…but I’m not taking my site traffic back to that turdball.

Uh, no John, that actually DOESN’T constitute the facts being out on the situation. Evidently civics lessons about presumption of innocence do not form an integral component of journalism school.

‘Clearly’ is one of my least favorite words in the English language. People only say it when they’re really trying to convince you something is true, which in and of itself makes it obvious that what they’re saying isn’t ‘clear’ at all.

Jamere seems rather intelligible.

You have to kill someone while DUI to be punished harshly.

Holland displayed time and again that he was unable to improve his behavior.

Apparently self admittedly too.

Like was it a .03, or a .20? Because one of those is a bit crazier than the other and also has bonus Fulmer Cup points written all over it

Disband the team and start over again, recruiting a fresh 85

CK should have suspended LMJ from active participation in team activities pending the outcome of his legal situation. Not dismissed, but suspended.

This is not a hard line to take. “Innocent until proven guilty” is the rule in a legal situation. In employment — and in a situation where playing intercollegiate sports is, ultimately, a privilege — the rules are not the same.

I have employees, who are in public situations, and are required to maintain standards of decorum and personal conduct. They are representatives of the organization I work for.. They know that if they get into any kind of public legal trouble their employment status could be in jeopardy.

Ultimately, it’s a judgement call, and one I don’t like to make. But a while back I discovered one morning, while reading the local paper, that one of our employees had been caught in an “indecent activity” crackdown at a local park. He was one of several local citizens arrested by the sheriff’s office for soliciting sexual activity or indecent exposure. His picture, along with the other accused, was on the front page of the paper.

We had to let him go. It was not advantageous to us to do so — in football terms, he was our LMJ — but we already had the policy, everyone who worked there understood and signed off on it when they were hired, and we couldn’t afford not to enforce it.

Mind you, he was not convicted of a crime (and many, myself included, thought the bust was unfair and a waste of law enforcement time). He was charged, booked, and released. It didn’t matter.

Harsh? Yes.

I’m not saying CK should dismiss James. Keep him on scholarship. But making a definitive statement that you’re sitting him down, pending the outcome of the situation, is both reasonable and appropriate in my opinion. If the process drags out and he has to burn a redshirt, let it happen.

Regarding Alonso: Getting busted for drunk driving is even more clear-cut than being accused of domestic violence, because in this case it’s the word of a law enforcement officer as witness, with hard evidence in the form of a breathalyzer. Alonzo is under-age. If there aren’t some kind of team rules for a case like this there damn well should be.

As for Holland, anyone who thinks that he was dismissed solely because of something he wrote on Facebook has not been paying attention to his career. I’m sure Bellotti had some influence here — he was the one who took Holland back in the first place. But CK was stuck between a rock and a hard place with this one. Ignore the situation and let it fester, or cut out the cancer.

My issue with Canzano in all this is that he thinks the public has a right to know, up front, how all these team rules work, presumably so the media, as a representative of The Public (i.e., Canzano) can determine whether the rules are being applied according to its own (Canzano’s) standards. Which is absurd.

Re Masoli: Not the same situation as LMJ. Masoli hasn’t been busted.

Two, I think. One on special teams and our reserve left guard.

They have Robo Duck. And gravity.

Money didn’t become an illusion of value until they stopped issuing silver certificates and took us off the gold standard.