I'm all for letting this guy play!

No. If the Oregon guy doesn't sucker punch him, swing on his own teammates, and then attempts do go into the crowd, this never happens.

 

Well, then we disagree completely. I'm of the firm opinion you let the scoreboard do the talking. I'll teach my kids like my father taught me, that when you beat an opponent you don't have to humiliate them and run your mouth. You just come off looking like the jerk when you do that. Humility is something society forgets all to much. I honestly think the Boise player in some respects got what he deserved. There is no reason to taunt your opponent ever. I'll never respect a program like Boise State that looks at this taunting as acceptable.

He did smack him on the shoulder pads, and that's what started it. Along with the yapping.

 

Exactly! I thought the punishment was way to harsh. The guy really was asking to get jacked. IMO the harsh part came after that when he and the fans/cops went at it. That is treading on slippery slopes for the NCAA.

Not surprised. Oregon is wavering on a bowl bid and that means bucks. I wonder just how much Boise State's "nonpunishment" of their player that instigated it played into this. I know the Oregon coaches, administration, and even Pac-10 people weren't happy with how Boise State handled it.

 

And you also have a coach that's already on the hot seat.

 

Why is Chip Kelley on the hot seat?

Well, then we disagree completely. I'm of the firm opinion you let the scoreboard do the talking. I'll teach my kids like my father taught me, that when you beat an opponent you don't have to humiliate them and run your mouth. You just come off looking like the jerk when you do that. Humility is something society forgets all to much. I honestly think the Boise player in some respects got what he deserved. There is no reason to taunt your opponent ever. I'll never respect a program like Boise State that looks at this taunting as acceptable.

 

I never said I thought it was Ok for the Boise player to taunt Blount. I just can't stand todays mentality that when someone does something wrong that it is OK to blame someone else for their actions. Are you teaching your kids it ok to pop someone anytime someone does something they don't like? I'd like to think not but thats the way you're coming off. We have way too many people trying to justify bad actions and behavior by blaming someone or something else. I for one am sick of this, and am suprised to hear that mentality on here. I to try teach my kids about accountability and if they make a bad decision, that they should shoulder the responsibilty of their actions and not try to unload that responsibilty on someone else. Guess you're right we do disagree.

Edited October 2, 200916 yr by malachicrunch

Saw where was was going to be out until atleast Nov. 7

I never said I thought it was Ok for the Boise player to taunt Blount. I just can't stand todays mentality that when someone does something wrong that it is OK to blame someone else for their actions. Are you teaching your kids it ok to pop someone anytime someone does something they don't like? I'd like to think not but thats the way you're coming off. We have way too many people trying to justify bad actions and behavior by blaming someone or something else. I for one am sick of this, and am suprised to hear that mentality on here. I to try teach my kids about accountability and if they make a bad decision, that they should shoulder the responsibilty of their actions and not try to unload that responsibilty on someone else. Guess you're right we do disagree.

 

This is my point as well. Also, according to reports he had been running his mouth about how Oregon was going to walk over Boise St. the week leading up to the game. Why do you think this Boise St. player went to him and not someone else on the team? So he smacked him on the shoulder pad and talked trash and gets hit. Explain the rest of Blounts behavior in getting off the field. He's already had numerous chances and been disciplined before for his poor behavior by Oregon.

I think this is well said about the situation from a national blog-

 

We have read several articles and columns since LeGarrette Blount was suspended from the Oregon football team that have suggested that the punishment was too harsh and we could not disagree more with that idea. The “sucker-punch” that Blount delivered to the Boise State player was only one part of his behavior after the game in Boise, because after Blount delivered that punch he continued to make a fool of himself and not respond to the direction given to him to head to locker room by his head coach, an Oregon assistant coach and even by the local police.

 

No, it wasn’t just the punch that got LeGarrette Blount suspended for the rest of his college playing career, but rather for some reason he had come to believe that he did not need to bother with what his head coach or an Oregon assistant coach was telling him or even the police for that matter. There is just room on any football or athletic team for a player to not follow the direction of any coach and when Blount headed toward the fans that were taunting him and would not take the orders and direction of the police that is the moment when we would have thrown him off of the team if we had been his head coach. In college football, if you do not have respect for your coaches and you are not willing to take the direction and orders of law enforcement then you have no business being on a college football team or in any institution of higher learning that we would want our children to be associated with.

 

That LeGarrette Blount continued to struggle against an Oregon assistant coach and police officers is an important fact, because everyone here makes it very clear to our children that they must respect law enforcement officers and their athletics coaches and if we ever catch them talking back to their coaches or the police ever call and say that any of our children were not respectful, well, that would not be good and there would be some kind of serious punishment for that behavior.

 

In fact, if one of our children had cold-cocked someone after getting taunted at an athletic event and then had tried to fight fans in the stands and didn’t take the direction of a coach and the police to head to the locker room, then that son or daughter would better be hoping that they got to the locker room before we got down to the field and dealt with the matter one-on-one.

 

There is just no room for taunting, trash-talk, sucker punches, or acting like a complete and out of control idiot, which all was done by LeGarrette Blount in the lead up, during, and after the game with Boise State. We are frankly stunned that anyone in the news media would try to excuse or alibi for anything that LeGarrette Blount did last Thursday night in Boise and it really make us wonder if any of these people have children and if they are raising them in manner so that their children could believe that Blount’s actions are in any way appropriate in a civilized society. Far too often we see indulgent parents that will make excuses for their children’s behavior as if THEIR children could never do anything wrong. That is an outrageous way to view the world and parents that will not demand that their children act in a respectful way to elders, their teachers, their coaches, to law enforcement and to other adults are really only hurting their own kids. This belief that has taken hold in our society that children are entitled to behave in certain ways or are not taken to task when that act inappropriately in public has got to be change. LeGarrette Blount’s behavior was outrageous and it was wrong, and it is double outrageous that anyone in any manner would defend his behavior or even what we believe to be the very light punishment that he got from the University of Oregon.

 

If we were running things at the University of Oregon and had witnessed the entire incident from the sucker-punch to the way that Blount acted as an Oregon assistant coach and police officers dragged him out of the stadium, we would have gone down to the field and had the police officers transport him down to the local Greyhound station and made sure he had enough money for a bus ticket back to Eugene. We would then tell this idiot that just embarrassed the University of Oregon, the Oregon football team and the fans and alumni of Oregon that once he got back to Eugene that all of his things would be loaded up in a pick-up truck and that a student assistant would be taking him to a local hotel to stay at until Blount figured out what he was going to do with the rest of his life, because from this moment on he was not a member of the Oregon football team nor a student at the University of Oregon.

 

If people want to believe that above is too harsh of a punishment for LeGarrette Blount, by all means watch the video again. Watch LeGarrette Blount punch the Boise State player, watch Blount fighting with his own Oregon teammates, watch Chip Kelly come over to Blount and say something and even after his head football coach has told him to head for the locker room, Blount heads over and tries to fight the Boise State fans and then Blount has to be dragged of the playing field like some out of control idiot.

Edited October 3, 200916 yr by atm10
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The only thing that Coach Kelly should have done was make the suspension "indefinite" if he was going to have this plan in the first place because now it appears that he is changing his mind or going back on his initial decision. Other than that, I think he has handled this extremely well.

 

He is NOT on the hot seat, his team just played a great game in destroying a top 10 team, the offense is looking great, and he's not bringing him back for the "tough" part of the schedule. There is no reason to bring him back.

 

He set a plan for Blount, with many stipulations, and there is still no guarantee he will get back. He's making him earn his way back. The kid stayed in school and is still working out and will be ready for the NFL draft whether he plays again or not.

 

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/12296861

If they reinstate him, one of the stipulations should be that he change his first name to something a little less ridiculous.