Missing Curfew?
Anybody care to say what's missing from this report on ESPN:
Kansas State quarterback Ell Roberson's status for Friday night's Fiesta Bowl is in jeopardy, based on reports that he violated the team curfew.From this, one might just guess that he was out having a beer, that it's an internal team matter whether he plays or not, and that boys will be boys.The Wildcats had an 11 p.m. curfew on Wednesday, but Roberson was found to be out of his room at the Scottsdale (Ariz.) Plaza Resort at 4:30 a.m.
Kansas State athletic director Tim Weiser told ESPN that Coach Bill Snyder will determine whether Roberson will start or even play against Ohio State.
Roberson was not with the Kansas State players at a pep rally Thursday afternoon, where 14,000 K-State faithful gathered at the Well Fargo Arena on the Arizona State University campus, according to The Associated Press.
Faced with the possibility of his star quarterback not playing, Snyder told fans that the Wildcats will "need to show great courage, great perseverance and be tremendously focused on the task at hand."
"That might not be easy tomorrow evening," Snyder said.
The senior from Baytown, Texas, needs 57 yards to become the third Division I player to rush for 1,000 yards and pass for 2,000 in a season.
Except it's not that simple. He admits to missing curfew, which is bad enough. But he's also been accused by a woman of sexual assault. He, taking a cue from fellow accused rapist-athlete Kobe Bryant, maintains it was consensual sex.
I don't know if Roberson is guilty of sexual assault or not. I do know he let his team down by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and quite possibly committing a thuggish criminal act.
He shouldn't play in Kansas State's bowl game. And if Bill Snyder hasn't made the decision by now, the Athletics Director should have made it for him. Or the university President, for that matter.
(Update) At least ESPN's web competitor, CNN-SI, reports the rest of the story.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/01/04 23:12 | Big 12 Football | Technorati
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Is it possible that the story was written when it was only known that he missed curfew? That was my guess when I read it as I can't believe any news service could be that incompetent.
Then again, I've been surprised before...
Posted by R. Alex @ 03:42 on 01/02/04
That's probably it, although I'm surprised that ESPN hadn't updated the story by that time. Even the Comical was running the longer version at that point. :)
Posted by Kevin @ 08:58 on 01/02/04
Just for the record, here's how they handle things in Division III:
http://www.offthekuff.com/m...
Posted by Charles Kuffner @ 11:51 on 01/02/04
Oh come on! You are such a whore for OU that if a Sooner did something like this you would be telling us he needs a second chance.
Posted by Gary C. @ 22:20 on 01/03/04
I'm a fan of OU, but I don't defend OU at all costs, and to suggest otherwise is to demonstrate you haven't been reading this site very long. Of course, you haven't, which explains the silly assertion.
For the most part, the Stoops regime has not seen the problems of the late-Switzer regime, but if it does, you won't see any cheerleading for it here, and you won't see any punches pulled.
That said, I do worry about big-time Division I athletics and the tendency of millionaire coaches to bring in the bodies they need to keep the multimillion dollar industry that is colleges sports going, and just to throw away those kids at the first sign of trouble. We all know it goes on. I don't know the solution to the problem. But just as I don't want to see a situation where a Bill Snyder or a Bob Stoops or a Mack Brown decides he MUST play someone who's broken team rules and possibly the law, I also don't want to see a situation where a star player makes a mistake and suddenly is out of college athletics with no degree and no chance to head to the NFL (I'm thinking of Maurice Clarett). I don't know the answer in some of these cases. But I do know someone in Roberson's situation, whatever his name or school, should have been suspended for his next game.
Posted by Kevin @ 22:44 on 01/03/04
You are right, I haven't been reading the site very long, but I have been reading long enough to detect a unwelcome change. What I find annoying is your post-KSU game spinning. Before that game, I thought you were merely cocky - but still mostly rational. The KSU game seems to have changed everything and now it's nothing but spin on your part. I thought you were above that, and that's why I find it so annoying. Face it, your boys shouldn't be playing this game tonight. If there is a God that cares about college football, your boys will get the thrashing of their lives. Since I don't believe in a God that cares one scintilla about football, your boys will probably win. But they will not be champions of anything - not the Big-12, not of college football. Ok, I guess they will be champions of one thing - the Big Lie.
Posted by Gary C. @ 15:25 on 01/04/04
Gary, you are the one being annoying not to mention irrational.
The above is a post about a QB who should have been suspended, whether he played for UH, OU, TCU, or Prairie View A&M, and you've turned it into a referendum on my being a fan of Oklahoma.
Yes, I'm a fan of Oklahoma. This isn't news, and it's a completely different topic.
Again, your inability to separate any topic from OU suggests YOU are the one being irrational.
But just to make clear -- if either Jason White or Kevin Kolb, the starting QBs at the two schools that have my allegiance -- were in Roberson's shoes, then I would think either Bob Stoops or Art Briles should not play the guy.
Back to your other topic -- if LSU wins, then they're the BCS National Champion according to the system we have in place. They may well win. They run one of the most sophisticated AND physical defenses in the land, a combination that Oklahoma hasn't faced. If OU wins, they're the BCS National Champion.
Is that system perfect? No. Is that system the one every coach and AD in the BCS coalition agreed to going into the season? Yes. Once the season is over, shall we debate what changes ought to be made to make it more perfect for next year? Yes. Will we see some of the changes implemented that we've discussed rather rationally here (whether it's a requirement of a team winning its league championship game or weighing late season losses disproportinately in the BCS formula or putting back in strength of victory/loss)? We might.
I don't see how that's spin or irrational. That's reality. You don't seem to like that reality -- in fact, you admit you hate it -- and that's your right. But it's kind of funny that you come on here fuming about reality, and then accuse me of being the one who needs to get a grip.
Posted by Kevin @ 16:23 on 01/04/04
I thing that this is some kind of a misunderstanding, because I think he shold have been in that curfew, because if he wasn't then it was his fault. All I want to say is that I agree with what I had read up there.
Posted by Robert @ 10:43 on 03/17/04
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