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Skeete's Arrest & (sort of) Related Topics

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What I dont get is this...and maybe the rules have changed.....but in the 80's as an athlete we were subjected to random drug tests....so, marijuana wasn't even an option....period.....

As a result I have never smoked the stuff.....maybe it's great, but i think it's much better to not even know what its effects are.....

Anyways, I would have never let my teammates down by doing weed.....but, again, times are alot different than in my playing days....
 
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I don't know that times are different Alan, they might be....but this particular case is just another dumbass who doesn't "ask themselves the question" before they act. Like "Hmm...I have a full scholarship to play on a high profile college football team, and I could end up in jail by selling drugs...should I?" Unfortunately they seem to me more and more prevalent, not just here, but everywhere. They either don't consider consequences, or just don't care. Either is frightening.


Not liking the law is fine, but pointless here. If you are on scholarship, don't break the law...don't drink when you're 19, don't smuggle pot, don't do anything. He's probably pissed away everything he presumably worked so hard for...what's the point? Why do they keep doing this?
 
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Sure Sears, the kid made his own bad series of decisions (though I don't know enough about the situation to assess blame), but the penalty is going to far outweigh the real negative impact of those decisions: probably some friend of his ends up with a bag of week, and Skeete loses his college scholarship (and the chance to ever get financial aid), gets his name trashed by sportswriters nationwide, and may even go to jail.

Yeah, in terms of OSU football, he definitely should be off the team for good, but that other stuff is too much for just weed.
 
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Coach Ginn said something about this (not drugs, but the temptations available) when he said to me: not a direct quote, but close:

"if i could i'd let all of them (players) live with me, that way i can make sure they are doing the homework at 8 and in bed at 10:30. there are just too many distractions today."
 
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According to Bucknuts (see below), Skeete sold to undercover cops twice in February. My guess is that this was an ongoing operation, which is why everyone is just finding out about it today...

http://ohiostate.scout.com/2/378236.html

According to police reports, Skeete was arrested early Wednesday morning by University Police on a warrant for trafficking in marijuana. Details were still sketchy on when and why the arrest warrant naming Skeete had been filed, although according to legal documents, Skeete was charged after allegedly selling marijuana to undercover officers on two occasions, Feb. 11 and Feb. 19.
 
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I don't excuse Skeete's actions at all, since he is an OSU scholarship athlete and expected to live up to a certain set of standards, including abiding by the existing law... I just don't agree with that law, and think it's bad for everybody.
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We need to keep that distinction clear. Lots of folks have opinions about what penalties should or should not be. Totally irrelevant to this issue.

Skeete knows the expectations of players in the OSU football program. If JT makes anything clear it is that. They have a book that spells it out. The kid screwed up and I am a bit disapointed to see anyone making excuses for him. If you want to argue he shouldn't go to jail that is one thing. But IMO you should sacrifice your right to be a Buckeye long before it gets to that point.

That he sold to undercover police (if true) changes everything. I was hoping that he might have sold some excess to a couple of buds and that activity was reported somehow. Selling to cops implies you are out to make a profit from drugs. If there is anybody out there who wants to make the case that kids doing that have a place on the Ohio State University Football you have a tough one to sell.
 
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I dont think anybody was saying that. You are right, 2 seperate points being argued. Is he a jackass for this? Yes. Should he be punished and thrown off the team? Sure.

My comments about not agreeing with the law, not agreeing with weed being illegal, those are completely seperate from this issue.
 
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This is fucking unbelievable... I have a full day where I can't check out the site all day, then I finally get 5 min and I see this crap... Seriouslly echoing everything everyone has said, what the hell was he thinking???
 
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KevinBuck said:
I don't know about that Alan, since it seems like a lot of OSU athletes smoke some weed during their college careers: I don't want to name names, but there were definitely a bunch of football partyers when I lived in Morrill Tower (especially a very prominent DB bust from Chicago).


"Not liking the law is fine, but pointless here"

What, this isn't a forum for discussion and opinions?
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Yes, I was echoing what has been stated above, which is that liking (or not) the law has nothing to do with this specific case of a kid on scholarship, etc.
 
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