Hello There, Guest! (LoginRegister)


Post Reply 
wittels vs. southall
Author Message
Bookmark and Share
Geaux Cajuns Offline
Bench Warmer
*

Posts: 204
Joined: Feb 2011
Reputation: 22
I Root For: Louisiana
Location:
Post: #21
RE: wittels vs. southall
(02-21-2011 11:50 AM)FIUFanatic Wrote:  Good for dahbeed in bringing in what the ULL administration did with the Southall case, as I'm sure he was getting ready his pop corn to watch this thread unfold. Question. Was Southall convicted of those accusations or just accused? Found out he spent one year in jail and the Cajun athletic department took him back. Hmmm....

http://gtsports.blogspot.com/2006/01/whe...thall.html

http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3080068

After nearly a year in jail, center Michael Southall is putting up all-conference numbers for Louisiana-Lafayette. Louisiana-Lafayette must be proud. This week's Ten for Tuesday went looking for some long-forgotten players and found them ... still playing college basketball. Who knew?


1. Michael Southall: Southall has a rap sheet you wouldn't believe, but there he is, playing for the Ragin' Cajuns. It's probably a coincidence that he has an NBA body (6-foot-10, 236 pounds) and is averaging 14 points, 7.6 rebounds and 3.6 blocks. Here's his rap sheet: Arrested in May 2000 for delivery and possession of marijuana. Arrested in April 2001 for violating his bond by running away from police. (Those two mistakes cost Southall scholarships at Kentucky and Georgia Tech and landed him on three years of probation.) At ULL in 2003 Southall played well but then was suspended for academic reasons and went afoul of his probation by testing positive for alcohol and marijuana, and skipping meetings with his probation counselor. That earned him a sentence of one year in jail. ULL took him back, but the Ragin-Cajuns are just 4-11. To which I say: good.


Come on, everybody deserves a 25th chance.

Let's see, one crime is a misdemeanor while the other is a felony with a 25 year sentence. One crime is a recreational drug, the other is a heinous assault which an individual is imposing his will on a VICTIM.

Is either university wrong in their stance on playing each respective athlete? IMO no.

FIU you guys have no room to talk about who is right or wrong in this case. You have embarrassed the conference once with a nationally televised brawl with the U. So you have no place to lecture any other school in the conference on behavior, either on the field or off of it.
02-21-2011 10:59 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Post Reply 




User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)


Copyright © 2002-2024 Collegiate Sports Nation Bulletin Board System (CSNbbs), All Rights Reserved.
CSNbbs is an independent fan site and is in no way affiliated to the NCAA or any of the schools and conferences it represents.
This site monetizes links. FTC Disclosure.
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org.
Powered By MyBB, © 2002-2024 MyBB Group.