You Stay Classy, Brandon Spikes

He's ONLY suspended for the first half against Vandy. Seriously?

What the hell kind of punishment is that? He tried to BLIND someone!

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I just saw this and was going to post the same thing

one HALF of a football game? Are you f**king kidding me?

Let this be exhibit A in the case of PSU v. Rest Of College Football:

Two of our players get caught with a miniscule amount of pot: out three games, a number of players involved in fights, the whole team is forced to clean up the stadium and suspensions for those who were actually charged (if I remember right), pulling a knife on a fellow teammate over a cell phone case: GTF off campus.

Attempting to blind someone (which would have gotten you assault charges outside the stadium) in the SEC game you were going to win no matter what: HALF A GODDAMN GAME.

And the opponent Meyer is so afraid of to only keep Spikes out half a game? FREAKING VANDERBILT.

As if I had any respect for Meyer to begin with, now it’s gone. He’s scum, and a horrible excuse for a human being, with zero class whatsoever. Anyone find a quote from Tebow H. Concussed? I’d be interested what the Holy One has to say to defend his teammate. I wish nothing but the absolute worst for Florida forever, or at least until they don’t have a douchea and a scumbag as a coach. I hope you lose all your games, your program crumbles, and you get slammed back to the stoneage by the NCAA for the recruiting violations I’m sure you’re committing .

by dawsonPSU10 on Nov 2, 2009 6:34 PM EST reply actions 4 recs

I think that would be...

Aggravated assault.

by Nittany Lawyer on Nov 2, 2009 6:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I will yield to your expertise

by dawsonPSU10 on Nov 2, 2009 6:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Seriously, it should be

I have a question for any of the BSD lawyers. Why isn’t this aggravated assault? Just because it happened on the football field? Eye gouging isn’t part of the game, like tackling is. Same with the random punching, but this is a little more serious. I mean, if a football player pulls out a gun during a play shoots the other team, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t get away with a half game suspension just because it happened during the game.

Basically my real question is, what would happen if Washaun Ealey tried to press charges, assuming that the video evidence was enough. And secondly, do you think that the video evidence is enough?

by PSUisMyHeart on Nov 2, 2009 7:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not a lawyer, like half the people on this site (lol)

but I don’t believe you can support filing charges based on the video, especially when Washaun didn’t have any injuries, even though he’s clearly trying to injure another player instead of “incidental” contact like helmet to helmet (unless you’re Taylor Mays), or late hit out of bounds, etc.

by dawsonPSU10 on Nov 2, 2009 8:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Local officials try to press charges for on-ice incidents all the time in hockey.

Sometimes they’re actually successful.

Bacon is almost as great as being a Penn Stater

by NittanyTide on Nov 3, 2009 9:07 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It could be

Like NittanyTide says, it happens in hockey sometimes. The key is whether the attack is outside what the player consents to by virtue of playing the game, i.e. tackling, shoving. In my opinion, the eye gouge probably is assault, but it really depends on the state law. I don’t know what the law is in Florida [insert southern justice joke and banjo music here].

As for the fact that he didn’t actually make contact, so long as there is intent to injure, it could be attempted assault. Additionally, in PA (where I haven’t practiced in 3 years) my recollection is that intent to place someone in reasonable fear of imminent harm is also assault, even if contact is not made and there is no injury.

Whether the video is enough is solely up to the jury. If I were on the jury, it would be, but I also think Urban Meyer is a doucheabag so I’m probably not impartial.

by Nittany Lawyer on Nov 3, 2009 9:53 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

If I was on the jury, it’d be enough as well, though, will similar biased qualifications.

by PSUisMyHeart on Nov 3, 2009 1:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

+1

I have nothing to add. That was perfect.

Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.

by 06Lion on Nov 2, 2009 7:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Quotes

Read this.

Tebow is very forgiving, to his own. So much for “turn the other cheek.”

“I don’t think that we did anything in that game that they didn’t do,” Tebow said Monday. “If you go back and look at it and study it, you can see it in the film, too. It was an intense game, both teams were very passionate about it.”

Also from Meyer:

“We understand the game of football,” Meyer said. “Some of us have played it. Very emotional things happened in that game in particular that were not good for either side, but the bottom line is we’re Florida and he’s Brandon Spikes and we expect certain things. He understands.”

I.e.: don’t get caught next time.

“Go(uge) Gator!”

by confirmy on Nov 2, 2009 7:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

with all due respect

tebow DOES have the power to forgive. it’s one of the perks of being JESUS F CHRIST!!!

We decide when you hear the snap count...

by thedrizzle on Nov 2, 2009 8:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Really Tebow?

I know you’re “infallible” and all, but, really? So Georgia’s D was also trying to pop out one of your teammates’ eyeballs when they were already down on the turf? I find that hard to believe.

Good thing I don’t believe in you Tebow, but instead believe in Zug, because you sir, are clearly stupid (and for the first time, I can actually hate Tebow for a reason instead of hating what the media has turned him into, so thanks!).

Yeah, yeah, I know, “defending his teammate”, but come one, somebody grow some balls on that team and call him out for being playing dirty instead of shrugging it off. That’s all I ask. It’s the same thing with Taylor Mays (except not as life-threatening, but equally as life altering in terms of career-ending injuries, spine vs. eyes), someone needs to flat out call the kid out on all of the BS that he gets away with. Suspend him, kick him off the team, make HIM publicly apologize for what he does so that he actually learns responsibility, instead of cowering and letting the coaches and staff do it for you. Make the kid go and visit paraplegics so he knows exactly what he risks in terms of his own life (which he clearly cares more about) and the lives of the people he tries to murder on every play. Send him to someone with some actually class, like, gee I dunno, Adam Taliaferro? Let Adam tell you what it’s like, how scary it is, how completely and utterly life changing and altering it is, even if you manage to recover.

I love college football, but I am so sick and tired of all the scum polluting it, both on the field and on the sidelines.

by dawsonPSU10 on Nov 2, 2009 8:46 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs

+1 for pretty much everything.

and another +1 to having the ability to finally being able to hate Tebow for something he did. Now I don’t feel a little bad when I hate.

by PSUisMyHeart on Nov 2, 2009 9:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Way to bring it, Dawson!

Take this emotion and keep it simmering all week. It’s perfectly timed for Brutus’ arrival.

"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69

by jtothep on Nov 3, 2009 10:23 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs