What Punishment Should Miami & FIU Receive For The Fight?

[Buckmark1]

I really think that both schools should be done for the year with the offending individuals done forever.

 

[BB73]

First, I think some of the actions in this fight warrant the loss of scholarships (Merriweather, Reddick, and the fool who was using his crutches as a weapon).

Second, the ACC and Sunbelt should be involved in the suspension process or at least oversee it. Something needs to be done to assure the right kids are being punished and that the actions are fair to all. I could see either school suspending kids with minimal involvment to avoid suspended kids they need to win games.

Coaches need to be reprimanded. All of them. On both teams. Position coaches, head coaches and coordinators. Coker may be a lame duck anyway. But he needs to be held acountable for the actions of his team.

This event was a black eye to the sport. It cannot be allowed to be duplicated.

I agree with all of this. And if Miami has any contractual ability to relieve Lamar Thomas of his announcer position, they need to do that also.

 

[NFBuck]

Tarred and feathered...the whole lot of 'em.

That is the oldest looking 58 year old I've ever seen. Sheesh, he lokes older than JoePa.

 

[OregonBuckeye]

Tarred and feathered...the whole lot of 'em.

That is the oldest looking 58 year old I've ever seen. Sheesh, he lokes older than JoePa.

I never really thought about it but you're right. He looks like he's rotting away.

 

[akronbuck]

Tarred and feathered...the whole lot of 'em.

That is the oldest looking 58 year old I've ever seen. Sheesh, he lokes older than JoePa.

looks like star treks Picards father

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[Jagdaddy]

I voted other: I vote for the Bugs Bunny punishment . . . for those who remember the cartoon in which Bugs, outraged at there being only a 2 cent bounty on rabbits because they're not considered dangerous, saws off Florida from the U.S. and watches it float away.

 

[Zurp]

Let the schools handle it internally; and then have the conferences determine if the schools handled it strictly enough.

My thoughts, exactly.

Death penalty? We are never going to see a big-name team like Miami get the death penalty. Football is too much of a money-maker for some of these teams, and a death-penalty, no matter how deserved it may be, will be responded with lawsuits out the ying-yang.

I think that the schools should suspend the players, accordingly, and, as much as I hate to say it, Lou Holtz showed a lot of class when South Carolina suspended themselves from post-season after their fight with Clemson. That option should get serious consideration by both schools.

If the conferences aren't happy with the way that their respective teams handled the punishments, maybe the ACC can ban Miami from playing in their next ACC championship game (whenever that is), and FIU's conference (whoever they are) can do something similar, or limit the number of home games FIU can have next year.

Not an official punishment, but the bowl games that are looking at Miami and FIU can/should be very reluctant to take either team. Perhaps Miami might have gotten into one bowl game, but that game doesn't want Miami, anymore. Instead, they get into another bowl game, that pays half as much, and is televised at a crappy time.

 

[sandgk]

The other unofficial punishment would be if all OOC schools that have Miami on the slate call up and tell them "no thanks." Let Da U only play sisters of the poor and hence get the West Virgina penalty in the BCS for a weak as water OOC schedule.
First one to do that might be Ohio State.

 

[Steve19]

I think that the University administrators, not sports administrators, and the conference should mete out the penalties, which I think should include a minimum of three game suspensions. The most serious violators who participated in assault, I believe, should be forced to sit out a year.

I am not in favor of throwing these kids out of the University or pulling their scholarships because I think these scholarships may be all that is between them and a very ugly future a al Clarett. They need counseling and strict programs to make progress in their coursework.

I also believe that the sports director and coach need to be given a final warning, so that if anything like this happens again they might be fired immediately.

 

[sandgk]

Steve it will be interesting to see if any Press Releases follow the morning meeting between Shalala, Coker, Dee et al in Miami, which should be presently underway.

 

[Best Buckeye]

they need more than one game suspensions. Especially the helmet user and the 4 or 5 that were all stomping one guy. Those are the two worst that I saw. There probably were others.
Shalala will probably call a press conference to announce they are all just misunderstood and give them a cookie.

 

[Taosman]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiheral...56.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
From the Miami Herald


UM-FIU FOOTBALL BRAWL

Suspensions handed down for fracas

Three starters are among the 13 Hurricanes who will miss the team's next game for their roles in the melee with FIU players.

BY BRIAN COSTA

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CHRIS CUTRO / FOR THE MIAMI HERALD
START OF SOMETHING BIG: Saturday's brawl resulted in the suspension of 31 players from Miami and FIU.

• Greg Cote | It was stupidity, and nothing more
• FIU to play Bama 18 short
• Greg Cote's blog | Take me out to the brawlgame
• Audio | Listen to post-game audio from the game
• Video | Footbrawl at the Orange Bowl
• Unedited Video | Arrests after FIU and UM players clear sidelines
• Document | Message from Donna Shalala

Thirteen University of Miami football players received one-game suspensions Sunday night for their involvement in Saturday's bench-clearing brawl with Florida International.
The suspensions, announced in a joint statement from the university and the Atlantic Coast Conference, will leave Miami without three starters from Saturday's game -- safety Brandon Meriweather, right guard Derrick Morse and punter Brian Monroe.
The ruling also will cause depth problems for the defensive secondary and offensive line as the Hurricanes prepare to face Duke on Saturday.
Earlier Sunday, UM coach Larry Coker called the brawl ``disgraceful.''
''That's not college football,'' Coker said. ``It's not what we represent at the University of Miami, and it will not be tolerated.''
The other players suspended were cornerbacks Bruce Johnson, Carlos Armour and Randy Phillips, running back Charlie Jones, offensive linemen Chris Barney and Tyrone Byrd, fullback James Bryant, tight end DajLeon Farr, wide receiver Ryan Hill and safety Anthony Reddick.
Wide receiver Lance Leggett, who threw a running punch at an FIU player toward the end of the brawl, was not suspended.
Coker announced the suspensions of Reddick, Meriweather and Bryant on Sunday morning just based on TV replays after the game. Later in the day, UM and ACC officials reviewed tapes of the incident and reached a joint decision on the other players.
ACC commissioner John Swofford told The Miami Herald he met Sunday with the league's head of officials, Tommy Hunt, to review video of the fight. Swofford said a Sun Belt Conference official also attended the meeting at the ACC's Greensboro, N.C., office, and that the leagues discussed how each would handle the incident.
The Sun Belt Conference and FIU gave the same punishment -- one-game suspensions -- to 18 Golden Panthers players.
When asked for his reaction to what he saw on tape Sunday, Swofford said, ``Disgust. Disappointment. I think anybody that cares about the game, you look at that and you know right off it's something that doesn't belong in college football.''
Saturday's slugfest was the latest in a series of troubling incidents for Miami. The Hurricanes got into a scuffle with LSU after last year's Peach Bowl and exchanged pregame shoves with Louisville last month.
Still, Coker defended himself when asked about his level of control over the program. ''I do have a grip on this program,'' Coker said. ``Don't ever doubt that. Don't ever doubt that.''
The brawl started in the third quarter when the Hurricanes took a 14-0 lead on Jon Peattie's extra-point kick. The fight escalated so quickly that it was difficult to point to one altercation as the cause. But players from both teams rushed the field after FIU defensive back Chris Smith pummeled UM holder Matt Perelli.
''They actually slam-dunked our holder,'' Coker said. ``They grabbed our holder and actually did lift him up and threw him to the ground.''
FIU players on Sunday said Hurricanes center Anthony Wollschlager set off the melee when he shoved Golden Panthers defensive back Marshall McDuffie Jr. during the extra point.
But Coker said FIU set the tone for the night when a Golden Panthers player ran through Miami's pregame warm-up area ''talking noise'' and shoved a UM player.
''I think you've got a lot of players from their team frustrated because they're not here, and maybe weren't recruited,'' Coker said. ``As the game started to get away from them, I was very concerned that something like this might happen.''
UM athletic director Paul Dee did not point fingers but called the brawl unfortunate. ''I wish we hadn't reacted the way that we did,'' he said.
The game was the first between the two local schools, and there is another game scheduled for next season. But it is now questionable whether it will be played.
Dee and Coker said they will discuss the matter with university president Donna Shalala and did not want to rush to a decision.
But when asked what UM has to gain from the matchup, Coker said, ``Nothing. A home game. I mean, really, what do we have to gain? The only thing [we gained] now is we've lost several players for the next game at Duke.''

 

[Best Buckeye]

On first and ten (ESPN2) they are saying the police plan no charges.:(