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RB Maurice Clarett (B1G Freshman of the Year, National Champion)

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NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
After the game your team played last night your players, coach and university do not deserve this.
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Thanks Chief, but this has nothing to do with the Buckeyes or Ohio State. That's why it received no meaningful mention during the game and no one is mentioning it in articles about the bowl game. Even in the stories about these latest allegations about Clarett, his time at Ohio State is mentioned only to put this story in context so that people remember who this guy is.

Even those journalists who supported his disproven allegations against Ohio State are silent.

I am thankful for the contribution that Clarett made during the half season he played as a freshman during our national championship year. But he has been gone from Ohio State for some time now, he didn't make the Broncos, and he and Ohio State have moved on.

In my mind, Clarett's current difficulties do not reflect on Ohio State in any meaningful way except as a past association. Everyone knows the truth now.
 
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It will be interesting to see how he comes to plead not guilty on this one. Insanity? All the other unemployed pro football players are doing it? I was hungry? Troy Smith's Mom won't pay my cell bill anymore so I had to get someone else's?

One bad decision after the other. He won't listen to the advice from people who are trying to help him out so I guess he has no one to blame but himself. (Although I am sure he will try.)
 
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If he did it, I'm sure he thinks he's just going to waltz out...like he always does. Somewhere is the end of the line though, and unbeknownst to him, to borrow from Skynard, "...and this might be all for you"
 
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espn.com

1/3/06

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Former Ohio State football star and Denver Broncos draft pick Maurice Clarett appeared in court in handcuffs and jail-issue clothing Tuesday when a judge set bond at $50,000 on charges that he robbed two people with a gun in an alley behind a bar.

Clarett, who helped the Buckeyes win the national championship in 2002, will have to post 10 percent of the bond set by Franklin County Municipal Judge Amy Salerno. He did not enter a plea and did not speak in court. His next hearing is Jan. 12.

"We are looking forward to investigating the allegations," Clarett's attorney, William Seppina, said outside court. "That's all I can say."

After spending the better part of two days wanted by police, Clarett surrendered Monday night, about the time the fourth-ranked Buckeyes were completing a 34-20 win over No. 5 Notre Dame in Tempe, Ariz., for their third Fiesta Bowl victory in four years.

The 22-year-old Clarett was wanted since early Sunday, when police said he flashed a gun and demanded property from a man and a woman behind a lounge in downtown Columbus.

Police said he fled with two men in a sport utility vehicle after he was identified by the bar owner, who happened to come out into the alley. No one was injured, and only a cell phone was taken from the alleged victims, police said.

Clarett sat out the 2003 season when he was charged with lying to police about the value of items stolen from a car he borrowed. He later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

Ohio State suspended Clarett for misleading investigators, and for receiving special benefits worth thousands of dollars from a family friend.

Clarett also unsuccessfully challenged the NFL's requirement that players wait three years after high school before turning pro in a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. He was chosen by the Denver Broncos in last year's draft, but the team cut him in August.

Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel said at a news conference the day before the Fiesta Bowl that he had recently spoken with Clarett about playing in Europe.

"As I said the last few times people have brought up the subject, my hope would be that he would have an opportunity to go over to NFL Europe and make a comeback," Tressel said Sunday.

Clarett rushed for 1,237 yards and scored 16 touchdowns as a freshman in 2002, but has found only hard times since helping the Buckeyes win the national title.

In an interview with ESPN The Magazine in November 2004, Clarett said coaches and boosters arranged for him to get passing grades, cars and thousands of dollars while at Ohio State. None of the allegations was verified, and Clarett never responded to NCAA requests to be interviewed as part of its investigation into Ohio State's athletic program.
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tedginn05 said:
I'm surprised we haven't seen a Jim Brown sighting yet. I thought for sure that the bond would be set at $1 Million or something and Brown would come and bail him out.
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Brown is like any other hack...money talks. Now that MoC doesn't have potential millions in his future, it's amazing how many of his "friends" and "advisors" have abandoned him, isn't it?
 
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