On Friday, head coach Chip Kelly said the following about the spate of legal incidents that have hit his Oregon football program since the calendar turned from 2009 to 2010:
“If a player doesn’t live up to the standards we have for the football program, then they’re not going to be here,” Kelly said Friday. “But I’m also not going to follow our kids around every Friday or Saturday night so I can see what happened to them.”
After the events of 2:19 a.m. PST, Kelly might want to consider a chaperone service. Or shadowing his players. Or putting his program on lockdown while shadowing the chaperones.
Unbelievably, and, as noted by The Oregonian, mere hours after Kelly’s impromptu state-of-the-program address, yet another Duck has found himself in legal hot water.
Redshirt sophomore-to-be Kiko Alonso was pulled over early Saturday morning and charged with DUI, the paper reports. The linebacker was arrested at a local 7-Eleven.
(Is their coffee really that good?)
Alonso becomes the fifth — fifth — player to be arrested in less than a month.
Star running back LaMichael James was arrested in the middle of last week on domestic violence charges, which included ominous words such as “strangulation” and “menacing”.
Kicker Rob Beard was charged with assault on the same day of James’ arrest after allegedly slapping a 19-year-old female last month. That precipitated a brawl that involved upwards of 40 people and ultimately ended with Beard unconscious courtesy of several boots/Dockers to the head. And initially hospitalized in intensive care in critical condition before undergoing facial surgery.
Matt Simms was charged with simple assault late last month for allegedly retaliating against a person he believed was involved in Beard’s beating.
And that’s without even mentioning the accusations levied against star quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, who was fingered by several frat brothers as one of two perps in a robbery at their fraternity house. The other perp? Wide receiver Garrett Embry, who, along with Simms, is no longer part of the program.
We don’t know what Kelly should do about all of these off-field incidents, but we will offer up a little perspective into the situations: what you’re doing simply ain’t working. Not even remotely. And your players are doing nothing but embarrassing your football program and, more importantly, your university.
Females — allegedly — aren’t the only people getting a black eye out of all of this tumult.
At least from the outside looking in, it looks very much like Kelly is the lead man of a program that’s running amuck and roughshod through the streets of Eugene.
Certainly, that’s not the case. But appearances can be a bitch. As can digging yourself out of a PR hole a little less than a year after first taking over the program.
Wrong Coach Kelly, JT.
Ducks please get your ‘ducks’ in a row. Another Big 10 teams wants to whip your over-rated asses in the 2011 Rose Bowl.
Yeah, I do that all of the freaking time, and catch it most of the time. This was one of those times I didn’t.
Thanks for the heads up, and it’s been corrected.
^^ Originally the article said Coach Brian Kelly.
What the hell is going on up there? Aren’t people from Oregon supposed to be granola munching, birkenstock wearing, non-soap using hippies?
Chip needs to start pumping in so jam band tunes during practice and Nike should come out with a hemp uniform and then maybe these fools will just chill out man.
Nothing will be done.
Florida and Oregon could make an All-Convict team and fill up 2 rosters worth
Anyone want to bet that Coach Kelly makes a big statement, relieving the non-starter, non-playing, non-contributing, non-impact redshirt freshman of his scholarship?
That Rose Bowl loss is still having a bowling ball effect on the Duck players. Time to get over it boys and get back to school and work.
Since the kids in 2 major programs like to fight so much – maybe the NCAA could schedule a cage fight between Michigan State and OU so the kids can stay out of jail and out of the headlines.
Duck fans don’t you worry – Coach Kelly will have them all re-instated by spring practice… after all, I’m sure they’ll all play nice and earn their way back on the team just like loser poor temper, poor sportspuss, sucker punch throwin Blount
LaGerrette Blount was caught up in a bad moment, and made a bad decision, and admitted it.
I am not defending the guy so much as setting the record straight. Arizona Buckeye, apparently, has never made a mistake.
This guy responded to the loserly, poor sportsmanship taunt from a bench warming nobody with a punch. It was not a sucker punch, as it was thrown immediately after a taunt.
The guy learned his lesson, apologized, and moved on. Maybe Arizona Buckeye should do the same.
dotbo – I’ve certainly made mistakes but nothing at the level of this thug. To actually lose control to such an extreme level that you sucker punch another player just because you lost a game – no, that is unacceptable at any level and there is no excuse whatsoever for it. He was a senior and he should have been thrown off the team immediately – no questions, and no chance for re-instatement. Period.
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