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sandgk
Watson, Crick & A Twist
Based on that description of Clarett being alternately up and then down in mood I am guessing that once in prison this will be an element in his future:
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buckeyeboy
Still fortitudinous
I heard an interview with Tom Friend on the radio just now, and he actually gave Tressel a little bit of credit, as he did in the article posted previously, saying in response to a question that Jim Tressel is the only one who's reached out to MoC lately. Of course, he couldn't leave it at that, quickly adding that it could be for one of two reasons. He also trashed OSU by saying something to the effect that the university kicked him out of school rather than saying what actually happened, namely that MoC left school, as noted by Dryden.
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Yesterday Hooley and Montgomery really got into it on the Big Show. It started very cordially, with Joe talking about how he, as a Christian, made an effort to befriend Clarett while Clarett was down in the dumps, and offer some counseling and guidance. Hooley tried to lead Joe into a line of questions that Joe had no intention of answering, and things escalated from there.
EDIT: Joe M came across as a MoC apologist and enabler, and Hooley wasn't too happy with that.
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ginnforheisman7
Rookie
if he somehow actually posts bond this could be the next guy to befriend MoC
"Listen brah, you gotta try and get off that Goose brah. It's ruining you."
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That is correct! Natural Born Buckeyes: The OSU Alumni Mafia
Gang bangin' thugs like Andy Geiger and Jim Tressel were leading the scarlet & gray masses down I-70 after Clarett, which is why Mo decided to get his Goose on, vest up, and ride around at 3:00 AM making phone calls to his four friends, with three fully loaded semi-automatic pistols, the Osama Bin Laden model AK47, and a hatchet in the passenger seat.
MoC doesn't owe money to gangsta rappers in LA, doesn't have a drug dealing brother rotting in a jail cell, wasn't faced with an imminent jail sentence of his own, is neither an alcoholic nor delusional child with entitlement issues, and is rather a very down to earth, caring man of God who has simply been misunderstood.
Poor Maurice.
The problem with this whole thing is that Joe Montgomery's comments are self-fulfilling, because he'll likely never be welcome in Columbus again after the statements he's making on 1460, ESPN, and elsewhere, and now he'll sit back and say, "See, I told you so."
When will these players ever learn: Do NOT cross The Sweatervest.
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One week ago, I just knew that the arrival of fall practices was too good to be true. #1 pre-season ranking ... two Heisman candidates ... unprecedented anticipation for the basketball season ... and nobody appeared to be in trouble.
Then Clarett (again) and Frost, and so the beat goes on. :(
The ESPN parade begins, because no OSU season should be without unwarranted, misplaced controversey!
Tomorrow on Cold Pizza, Robert Smith says, "How dare they give me a scholarship to play football, then ask me to run the ball for The Man (tm)! I just want to play with my ferret and be left alone."
Then Clarett (again) and Frost, and so the beat goes on. :(
The ESPN parade begins, because no OSU season should be without unwarranted, misplaced controversey!
Tomorrow on Cold Pizza, Robert Smith says, "How dare they give me a scholarship to play football, then ask me to run the ball for The Man (tm)! I just want to play with my ferret and be left alone."
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OSUsushichic
Fired up! Ready to go!
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
The sad spiral of Maurice Clarett is just that, not an argument against early entry.
Aug. 10, 2006 | We talked a lot around here about Maurice Clarett when the former Ohio State star was fighting to gain entry into the NFL in 2003 and 2004 following his dismissal from the Buckeyes team. I thought he should have been given a chance.
Now we have our postscript, and I still think the same way, even with Clarett sitting in jail and facing serious prison time on the robbery and new gun charges.
Clarett was arrested early Wednesday following a police chase in Columbus, Ohio. Clarett was wearing a bulletproof vest, and police say they found four loaded guns, including an assault rifle, and a half-full bottle of vodka in the front seat of his SUV.
Clarett, 22, was already facing a robbery charge, and a judge Thursday raised his bond from $50,000 to $1.1 million. He had agreed to play this season for the Mahoning Valley Hitmen of the Eastern Indoor Football League, a new league so minor it stretches the definition of even minor. Not quite the NFL, the league's salary cap is $5,000 a week. For all 20 players on a team, combined.
If given the chance, I don't think Clarett would have succeeded. When he did get his chance in 2005, the Denver Broncos making him a surprise third-round pick, he failed spectacularly, showing up to camp out of shape, getting injured, antagonizing teammates and bosses and getting cut before ever seeing the field.
It can be argued, I suppose, that if Clarett had stayed in school -- if he hadn't gotten into the legal mess in the summer of 2003 that started him on his spiral and led to his getting kicked off the team -- he might have gained the maturity he needed to succeed in life, or at least in the NFL.
But then, he wouldn't have been Maurice Clarett. He did get into that trouble. He did get kicked off the team. He would have to have been more mature in the first place not to find himself locked out of both the NCAA and the NFL in 2003. And by the way I still don't understand why he didn't go to the Canadian Football League while the getting was good.
What I'm saying is the guy's just a screw-up. He's got serious problems that weren't going to be solved by putting in another two years at Ohio State, skating through classes and being a pro football player in every sense except legal salary.
Maurice Clarett is not the counterargument to letting teenagers turn pro, though he's going to be used that way. I acknowledge that there are some good and reasonable arguments against letting 18- and 19-year-olds play in the NFL or the NBA. But Clarett's failure isn't one of them. He was a time bomb. It's looking like he was going to screw up whenever he got his chance.
Screwed-up kids grow up, a lot of the time, to become screwed-up adults. That doesn't mean other kids are going to grow up the same way.
http://www.salon.com/sports/col/kaufman/2006/08/10/thursday/
The sad spiral of Maurice Clarett is just that, not an argument against early entry.
Aug. 10, 2006 | We talked a lot around here about Maurice Clarett when the former Ohio State star was fighting to gain entry into the NFL in 2003 and 2004 following his dismissal from the Buckeyes team. I thought he should have been given a chance.
Now we have our postscript, and I still think the same way, even with Clarett sitting in jail and facing serious prison time on the robbery and new gun charges.
Clarett was arrested early Wednesday following a police chase in Columbus, Ohio. Clarett was wearing a bulletproof vest, and police say they found four loaded guns, including an assault rifle, and a half-full bottle of vodka in the front seat of his SUV.
Clarett, 22, was already facing a robbery charge, and a judge Thursday raised his bond from $50,000 to $1.1 million. He had agreed to play this season for the Mahoning Valley Hitmen of the Eastern Indoor Football League, a new league so minor it stretches the definition of even minor. Not quite the NFL, the league's salary cap is $5,000 a week. For all 20 players on a team, combined.
If given the chance, I don't think Clarett would have succeeded. When he did get his chance in 2005, the Denver Broncos making him a surprise third-round pick, he failed spectacularly, showing up to camp out of shape, getting injured, antagonizing teammates and bosses and getting cut before ever seeing the field.
It can be argued, I suppose, that if Clarett had stayed in school -- if he hadn't gotten into the legal mess in the summer of 2003 that started him on his spiral and led to his getting kicked off the team -- he might have gained the maturity he needed to succeed in life, or at least in the NFL.
But then, he wouldn't have been Maurice Clarett. He did get into that trouble. He did get kicked off the team. He would have to have been more mature in the first place not to find himself locked out of both the NCAA and the NFL in 2003. And by the way I still don't understand why he didn't go to the Canadian Football League while the getting was good.
What I'm saying is the guy's just a screw-up. He's got serious problems that weren't going to be solved by putting in another two years at Ohio State, skating through classes and being a pro football player in every sense except legal salary.
Maurice Clarett is not the counterargument to letting teenagers turn pro, though he's going to be used that way. I acknowledge that there are some good and reasonable arguments against letting 18- and 19-year-olds play in the NFL or the NBA. But Clarett's failure isn't one of them. He was a time bomb. It's looking like he was going to screw up whenever he got his chance.
Screwed-up kids grow up, a lot of the time, to become screwed-up adults. That doesn't mean other kids are going to grow up the same way.
http://www.salon.com/sports/col/kaufman/2006/08/10/thursday/
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MrCodeDude
All-American
From another forum I post at:
If this isn't the best idea suggested, I don't know what is.
If this isn't the best idea suggested, I don't know what is.
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OSUsushichic
Fired up! Ready to go!
He could put "EVERYBODY HATE ME" on the back of his jersey.
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scooter1369
HTTR Forever.
I just want to know what Homeland Security is doing to protect us from Maurice.
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