A Sea Of Red

news and advance has an article today saying he unintentionally committed an ncaa housing violation and will be suspended for the team's first 2 games. no details on what is the housing violation was stated.

uhh

all I can say is at least we are playing D II teams and at least we have Zach Terrell....I do wonder what exactly that means...anybody with any ideas?

seriously, he's from here. How can you have a housing violation? The games shouldn't be a problem but I still would like the big guy to get rolling with the team ASAP.

LUconn wrote:seriously, he's from here. How can you have a housing violation? The games shouldn't be a problem but I still would like the big guy to get rolling with the team ASAP.

does he live on campus, off campus, or does he commute from home?

I do not like seeing silly things like this screwing up our season before it even starts.

<del>Can someone give us details on the violation?</del>

Nevermind. I'm not interested anymore.

Well, anyone who knows may want to be careful about posting it in this forum. Rashad didn't want to talk at all about it. Jeff Barber was intentionally vague, as was Danny Rocco. It's clear no one wants the specifics out there. That's their right. It's a private school. No one has to talk about anything if they don't want to. Freedom of Information laws won't help here ...

i did research on previous housing violations. seems like almost every single one is when an athlete/coach provides free housing for a prospective student athlete. the famous USC one from about a year ago involved players not paying enough rent, so sort of like the free housing thing.

maybe we're lucky and this is our big mistake for the year. We're just getting it out of the way.

Last year Rashad put up huge numbers against the weakest teams and really struggled against some of the better defenses. So, in a way, he won't be able to pad his stats against a couple of softies. His numbers this season should be more reflective of what he can actually do against the tougher opponents. Hopefully, he rises to the challenge.


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Chris Lang wrote:Well, anyone who knows may want to be careful about posting it in this forum. Rashad didn't want to talk at all about it. Jeff Barber was intentionally vague, as was Danny Rocco. It's clear no one wants the specifics out there. That's their right. It's a private school. No one has to talk about anything if they don't want to. Freedom of Information laws won't help here ...

So noted. Thanks.

what lang is saying is really all that needs to be reported. shuk save the speculation please. LU reported it and it is being dealt with...end of story.

bigsmooth wrote:what lang is saying is really all that needs to be reported. shuk save the speculation please. LU reported it and it is being dealt with...end of story.

Agreed. Whatever it was seems minor with such a small penalty. I'm over it. Go Flames.

I think everybody tends to lose site of the fact that we are not a newspaper. I doubt anybody here knows the specifics or that we'll ever know, but what's wrong with speculating? It's what we do.

let it go people. it is a minor violation which LU reported. he is suspended for two games. end of story. if rashad, barber and rocco do not want to talk about it is not worthy of any speculation. have we not given our trust to barber and rocco?? let's not drag rashad into the mud over a minor violation. key thing it was caught and dealt with before a big game.

LUconn wrote:...but what's wrong with speculating? It's what we do.

Well, I think the problem is that a lot of times speculation becomes rumor which then ends up being stated factually. With a violation such as this one, it could make things appear a lot worse than they really might have been. I mean, it's certainly our prerogative, but I'm just not sure it's productive.

LUconn wrote:I think everybody tends to lose site of the fact that we are not a newspaper. I doubt anybody here knows the specifics or that we'll ever know, but what's wrong with speculating? It's what we do.

There are certainly people who know the specifics Luconn. We have insiders on this board like no other board in the country. It would be wise for those who know not to post the details. It is ok to speculate though as you say but those who know really shouldn't divulge this type of stuff in this forum. If you want to gossip about it at the tailgate that is one thing but to post it on this board for for all of the world to see is irresponsible in my opinion.

thank you SCAR....well put. and as scorcho said it is really unproductive.

I hate this on a lot of levels

oh, I certainly don't think it's productive but there isn't much on this site that is. I think of this site as a replacement for a giant drawn out conversation that I'd like to be having with people in person but is too impracticle to acutally have. This seems like something that I would talk about with someone.

LUconn wrote:oh, I certainly don't think it's productive but there isn't much on this site that is. I think of this site as a replacement for a giant drawn out conversation that I'd like to be having with people in person but is too impracticle to acutally have. This seems like something that I would talk about with someone.

I agree with you. It is jut that your conversation in your analogy, one or both of you are wearing a wire

paradox wrote:Last year Rashad put up huge numbers against the weakest teams and really struggled against some of the better defenses. So, in a way, he won't be able to pad his stats against a couple of softies. His numbers this season should be more reflective of what he can actually do against the tougher opponents. Hopefully, he rises to the challenge.


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Pair-of-sox,

Yeah, I think you are right, 186 yards against Bill and Mary in less that 3 quarters before he got hurt. Sounds pretty weak to me. How is the intramural tiddly winks tournament going?

I think it's pretty obvious that you 2 need to have a cage match fight to the death. There can be only one.

Hey too old to fight or get my feelings hurt. Just pointing out a few facts. Like I said before, I am sure Sox is a good guy and I look forward to meeting him some day. Just having a little fun, nothing personal. Peace Bro.

This is the strangest message board I've ever seen.
The purpose of a message board is for those of us who are not journalists to have a place to discuss, rumor, speculate, and shoot off at the mouth. Or at least i thought it was. This board has a group of Police who are quite often involved in censorship. It's just weird to me. The insider thing is strange too. I think there are too many folks on here whose salaries depend on the mother ship.
Oh Well.