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1. Facebook User said:

   May 7th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

   I feel like this story could only better if he’d been awarded something called the Switzer Outstanding Citizen Scholarship.

   Also, this is greatness:

   
   “He’s still going to Oklahoma,” Cristalli said. “We were working in conjunction with Oklahoma with these negotiations to make sure they would be comfortable with him going to the university and participating in the program.”

2. Vasherized said:

   May 7th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

   It was only a Phillips head. If it had been a flat head maybe I could understand a stiffer sentence. Time to move on and concentrate on what matters: Losing bowl games.

   - Bob Stoops

3. Trips Right said:

   May 7th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

   This is embarrassing for ou. I would absolutely love for Will Muschamp to publicly comment on the asshattery that continues to go on at that joke of a university. Something along the lines of, “In our effort to be multiple on defense, we had Sergio Kindle string out the pitch man and leap headlong into the screwdriver bandit, addressing an issue that the state of Nevada was too corrupt to deal with.”

4. NateHeupel said:

   May 7th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

   RE: 120 hours of community servce

   At the very least, we know he’s good with tools, right?

5. roveram said:

   May 7th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

   That 120 hours at Big Red Sports & Imports will be some rough shit. I feel sorry for the guy.

6. Facebook User said:

   May 7th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

   Nate, FTW.

7. ponderos said:

   May 7th, 2009 at 1:05 pm

   That would be a pretty funny thing for Muschamp to say, except that Chaisson’s a DE.

8. Trips Right said:

   May 7th, 2009 at 1:11 pm

   Hence stringing out a pitchman. I’ll type slower next time.

9. California Horn said:

   May 7th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

   The real loser in this news is Oklahoma State. You know Gundy was waiting to swoop in with a scholarship offer, Chris Collins style, had Stoops looked at the depth chart and decided he could afford to cut Chaisson loose.

10. Shawnette said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!

11. Chooky said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    I like how the article ends with his bench and squat numbers.

    I was always curious what Axl Rose benched around that time he was bouncing Stephanie Seymour’s head off the walls of various luxury hotels.

12. SoonTang said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    I like a man that knows how to use his tools.

13. BrickHorn said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    “She was never placed in a position where Justin was going to hurt her…”

    …except for whatever position she was in when Justin was punching her in the fucking ribs.

14. kevwun said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    Like none of you haven’t forcibly taken your girlfriend in to the desert and threatened to kill her at some point in your life. Glass houses, motherfuckers.

15. HenryJames said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    

16. intellectual type said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    He probably tried to lure her into his van with this approach at first. After that failed, he went with plan B.

    

17. SlickStreet said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    “That would be a pretty funny thing for Muschamp to say, except that Chaisson’s a DE.”

    Ooh, tough comeback there, bud.

    Is any of this remotely surprising? For the most part, football success is all that matters. Anything else merely gets in the way.

18. roveram said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    The other day I took my bitch to the middle of the swamp, slapped her in the mouth and called her a whore.

    I guess my OU scholly is fine.

19. OU Asshat said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    My favorite recruit.

20. Nordberg said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    Four felony charges… “No problem son… even if you did do these things, get those puppies down to misdemeanors and get your ass to Norman. We don’t care.”

    Incredible.

21. Mike Tyson said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    Much ado about nothing…

22. ShamWow Vince said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    Bitch had it comin’..

23. Thayer Evans said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    How did I miss this?

24. Orenthal said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    Lame. OU can’t hang with USC

25. TaylorTRoom said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    Just Stoops paying homage to Switzer again. When freshman WR Buster Rhymes was caught stealing a teammate’s stereo, Switzer put him on “reform redshirt” for a year.

26. stoliva said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    Trailor trash rears its’ ugly head again! Maybe someone can slug him in his ribs during a game. How do men get away with this kind of thing? All ladies should be absolutely sick to death that he got off so lightly. Where is the justice??? A lady!

27. 8straight said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 6:14 pm

    Over/under for dragging next girlfriend down a flight of dorm stairs? Lawrence Phillips would be proud.

28. RansomStoddard said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    The whitewashing in the OKC media has begun. Today one of the radio stations featured a story about what a great school and family this guy is from. Seems his mom once gave something to charity, or something.

29. Facebook User said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    Ransom – Do you live in OK? Your generally scabrous tone is starting to make more sense.

    But seriously, keep us informed on the image rehabilitation efforts.

30. Longhorn in Canada said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    It’s OK, he was wearing his seatbelt while he drove her to the desert.
    BTW, does OU get any valuable Fulmer Cup points for this douchebag? I can see not counting points after a player has left the program, but if you take a scumbag like this after what he did, you really should get points for it.

31. Britney Spears said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    Someone give him my number.

32. Parlin Hall said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    The conjunction of “desert” and “storage facility” is pure magic, no?

33. Scipio Tex said:

    May 7th, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    Chaisson only drinks vodka and orange juice.

34. ponderos said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 5:16 am

    I see what you did there.

35. BEHorn said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 6:02 am

    Chaisson did so little actual harm, I’m surprised blowU let him in. I guess they still have enough time to coach him up to full-blown assault.

36. Big B said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 7:00 am

    If his lawer was from the tu school of law his statement would have read. “She was never placed in a position where Justin was going to hurt her…” *

37. NateHeupel said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 7:08 am

    Ransom, he actually is from a very good school and family. That’s why he had Michael Cristalli defending him. Let me put it this way. Cristalli was able to get Chaisson’s hearing time switched without the public docket being changed. Thus, no media were present. OU fans familiar with Vegas said that Chaisson was as good as enrolled the second his family hired Cristalli. Sure enough…
    (insert depressed sigh here)

38. RansomStoddard said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 8:07 am

    Not disputing that. So was Andre Jones. Point is, he will be in uniform for OU next year, barring some further Jarboe-like stupidity.

39. Spring Branch Horn said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 9:30 am

    This just shows you the difference between the two schools

40. Minnesotahorn said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 9:56 am

    Amusing in its predictability. Let’s make sure to make Joe Jamail available to the family of his next victim.

41. ChicagoTTU said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 10:16 am

    “Starting defense! Place at the table!”

42. You can't make this stuff up said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 11:15 am

    An actual quote from Ponderos:

    “From where we sit, Chaisson merely seems like a great but misguided kid. He just needs an opportunity to turn his life around.”

43. TaylorTRoom said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 11:38 am

    I think (hope) Ponderos said that with tongue in cheek.

    You know, it’s not a brave new world for these coaches every time a recruit or player gets arrested. They all have standards and philosophies, whether they state them or not. You can review their records over the years and figure them out.

    For example, Bobby Bowden has stated that he will not suspend players who get in trouble, no matter how bad. He feels that he punishes the good kids as well as the bad by doing that. If the police don’t have him jailed, the guy is suiting up.

    Mack has an 11 year track record. Pre-enrollment, a criminal arrest (differentiated from DWI or misdemeanor possession) gets a kid dropped. Post-enrollment, a felony criminal arrest that looks planned (robbery, etc.) gets a kid indefinitely suspended. This means he has nothing more to do with the team, but doesn’t prejusdice his judicial case. Lesser criminal offenses and DWIs get a one game suspension, regardless of the game coming up. Benson and Tarrell Brown were both suspended for key games.

    Stoops has established a record for punishment, too. He seems to subscribe to the Jimmy Johnson policy of having more tolerance for the star players than the scrubs. Hunter Wall and Nicholas Simpson were dismissed after being arrested. Ryan Broyles and DeMarcus Granger weren’t, for similar offenses. Also, Stoops will only suspend a guy if a game is coming up. Off-season crimes get off-season suspensions.

    A review of the miscreants for both programs show that charges get dropped about 2/3 of the time, and most felony arrests end up as misdemeanor trials. I suspect that this is the case for most citizens with the quality of legal representation our athletes get.

44. TaylorTRoom said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Oh, one more thing. I don’t think Mack Brown has ever had a kid make it back from indefinite suspension.

45. Donkey Punch said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 11:50 am

    “From where we sit, Chaisson merely seems like a great but misguided kid. He just needs an opportunity to turn his life around.”

    If only Hitler had used his Nazi G.I. Bill to attend OU after WWI…

46. ponderos said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 11:55 am

    Maybe the snark obfuscated the subtext that says if it was my daughter’s neck at the end of the screwdriver, that kid probably wouldn’t even walk again, much less play football.

    Also, I too always thought Benson’s busting in some girl’s door with two big thugs in tow, “looking for my TV,” was a lesser offense.*

47. TaylorTRoom said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    No contest- misdemeanor…look it up.

48. Frank Shorter said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    “If only Hitler had used his Nazi G.I. Bill to attend OU after WWI…”

    After WWII, he actually finished up at Norman via correspondence from outside São Paulo.

49. Christian Peter said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    Like they say on the plains, the Nebraska-Oklahoma rivalry is the classiest in all of sports!

50. Donkey Punch said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    “After WWII, he actually finished up at Norman via correspondence from outside São Paulo.”

    Of course your referring to Adolfo Dela Furor who ran a string of Brazilian day spas in the 50’s and 60’s. He brought with him from Germany several torture tactics, one of which lead to his being credited as the inventor of the Brazilian wax.

51. Trips Right said:

    May 8th, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    The next nasal inhalation ponderos has will be his first. And I say that in the context of if my daughter is forced at screw driver point to inhalate through her mouth, the offending party will never walk again.

52. NateHeupel said:

    May 9th, 2009 at 8:05 am

    Hunter Wall and Nicholas Simpson were dismissed after being arrested. Ryan Broyles and DeMarcus Granger weren’t, for similar offenses.

    Similar offenses? Taylor, are you fucking serious?

    Hunter Wall – Burglary II, possession of marijuana
    Nick Simpson – Assault and battery
    Ryan Broyles – Misdemeanor theft
    DeMarcus Granger – Misdemeanor theft

53. TaylorTRoom said:

    May 9th, 2009 at 9:25 am

    Nate, the point is that Mack may kick a guy off the team after an arrest, but he calls it a suspension and not a dismissal. The guy may be a POS (we’ve had a few), but Mack did take him on and won’t act in such a way as to prejudice the court case. Everybody is presumed innocent, yada, yada, deserves their day in court, blah, blah, blah. It opens him up for criticism (he caught heat for not summarily booting the 2007 thugs), but I can understand why he does it.

    Don’t compare the charges of Wall and Simpson at arrest to the charges of Granger and Broyles at trial. A I noted, these guys get good legal representation and most felony charges become misdemeanor charges at trial, and most misdemeanor charges get dropped.

    My point is that different coaches have different discipline systems. I actually used google research to make a spreadsheet of player arrests, final charges, and discipline actions for both programs, and it shows definite standards the programs follow. At Texas, Mack will stick up for his players unless it is truly criminal activity, like we saw in 2007. At OU, if you are not a key player, you had better stay out of trouble.

54. TaylorTRoom said:

    May 9th, 2009 at 10:14 am

    Also, each method has pros and cons. As noted above, Jimmy Johnson was a vocal advocate of having two standards of behavior, depending upon the player’s status as a contibutor. That really worked out well for him, and it’s working for Stoops too. Mack’s approach often contributes to his rep as a coddler. It just depend on what a coach feels is the right method.

55. NateHeupel said:

    May 9th, 2009 at 10:58 am

    Granger was only ever charged with misdemeanor theft. He stole a coat from Burlington Coat Factory, Taylor. That’s it. If anything, he should’ve been kicked off the team for bad taste. Seriously, Buster Rhymes would’ve been ashamed.

    Broyles had a hook-up because he was a local hero in high school. (Remember, he went to Norman for high school) He stole gasoline from the local Mr. Shortstop (it’s actual name), and was only ever charged and arrested for misdemeanor theft.

    Hunter Wall broke into someone’s home and had weed on him when he did it. Not hard to figure out what he was charged with.

    Nick Simpson transferred to Tulane after the 1999 season. I have yet to have found any articles showing him as being dismissed. He’d burned his redshirt in 1998 as one of John Blake’s last recruits, and in 1999 he earned himself a spot in the doghouse through the aforementioned assault. To the best of my knowledge, the worst that ever happened was a civil suit. Who was in front of him at MLB? Torrance Marshall until 2000, then Teddy Lehman til 2001. Who was in front of him at WLB? Rocky Calmus until 2001, then Teddy Lehman until 2003. At OU, his best case scenario was getting to play for a year at MLB in 2002. He transferred to Tulane as the projected 2001 MLB starter.

    So, again, help me out Taylor. Your charge at trial vs. charge at arrest theory no longer holds water. At least, not on current examples. I’m not saying your overall theory isn’t correct. Even I’ll admit that sounds logical. But if this is the best proof, I’m not convinced.

56. SoonTang said:

    May 11th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    Nate, your logic is a turn on….

57. all american sooner said:

    May 11th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    “At Texas, Mack will stick up for his players unless it is truly criminal activity, like we saw in 2007. At OU, if you are not a key player, you had better stay out of trouble.”

    That’s a laughable statement. Most likely, most of the incidents are either looked away from or covered up by the cops before they ever hit the public. It’s borderline stupid to think that these players are not given special treatment on the streets. Just look at how they are treated once they get to court to get an idea of it. Probably, only the unlucky player or a player who repeatedly cannot control himself ever becomes involved in one of those so called incidents that ever hits the public.

58. springbranchhorn said:

    May 11th, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    sooners are borderline stupid

59. dick said:

    May 11th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    borderline?

60. all american sooner said:

    May 11th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    Nate, let an All American, illegal immigrant hating, Sooner boy show you how to defend the Sooner nation from these silly, moralistic pretensions of the never ever humble Hornfans.

    Violence always derives from a person mistaking what is less real for what is more real (by the way there really are levels of realities in human life experience). When one is in the mental state of this mistake, one is always in a defensive and conflict orientated mental state. What is less real is always being challenged, destroyed, and exposed by what is more real, and so the person, in his effort to maintain and hold on to the illusion of what is less real, must eventually sacrifice more and more of himself and become reduced to ever more desperation in order to maintain this inversion of the natural order of values – to maintain his illusions in othe words.

    And eventually and inevitably, this at all costs effort to maintain an unnatural hold onto to what is less real must lead to some form of violence. Whether it be physical, mental, verbal, or systemtic, it is no matter. A state where a person takes what is “less real” to be more real than what is “more real” must as a matter of principle lead to violence. Speaking metaphorically, it will always lead to the screw driver to the neck.

    Despite what Hornfans may wish to believe, the screwdriver to neck principle inevitably applies not just to future Sooner recruits, but to all recruits throughout the land, even the ones that will end up in the moral promiseland known as “ghey haven” Austin.

    And should any arrogant Hornfan still believe in their moral superiority to the Sooner Nation, I’d like to remind them that the principle of taking what is less real for what is more real is the basic foundational principle of the free market system. Without the irrational belief in its possibility, the free market system simply could not exist. Thus, if one exists within a free market system, then you cannot, as a matter of principle, be morally superior to any in the Sooner Nation. The Sooner Nation is as ethically high as is permitted and possible in a free market world. And to dare to insult the Sooner Nation with moralistic tongue nagging and waggings amounts to nothing more than just punching yourself in your own face.

    Does this principle of taking the less real for the more real remind anyone of anything else? It should. It reveals that all notions of happiness in a free market system is bi-polar by its very nature. Basically, the above inversion of values is what bi-polarness happens to be and it happens to be the case in spite of what the world reknown mental health experts, with all their life long dedication empirical truth and research, might say. That may just serve as an indication of the true value of a mental health industry in a “for profit” society.

    Note the characteristics of bi-polarness: sharp, emphemeral highs always ending in grinding, depressed, self-loathing and self-debilitating lows. The irrational highs comes from what? – the delusion efforts to place what is less real above that of what is more real….no? And the irrational highs always end with incomprensible lows….is this not always the case? That would be the universal order of things correcting our mistake by placing what is more real on top once again while disintegrated what is less real or our illusions in the process.

    This state of affairs should not surprise anyone. After all, placing what is less real above that of what is more real does have another name. Throughout history it has been also known as idolatry.

    Like I said you arrogant Horns, if you live within a free market system you can never be morally superior to even the lowest of the low of the Sooner Nation and, by the way, as a sidenote, what you call your happiness is always no better or tangible than the highs of a bi-polar person.

    The All American Sooner has spoken….and, by the way, up your Hornfan noses with a rubber hoses.

61. the Bobs said:

    May 11th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    I didn’t read the whole thing, naturally, but I believe it’s just a case of a sooner with a thesaurus trying to say: “The ends justifies the means. And, everybody does it!”

    so basically, same old…

62. Blueshorn said:

    May 11th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    I read that Chaisson was under a restraining order when he committed the offenses for which he pleaded no contest. Fascinating that the legal system which granted the restraining order would reward his reprehensible behavior with such a sweet deal. Things that make one go “Hmmmm.”

    I suppose Nevada sees his football career in Jokelahoma as a good way to get the punk out of their state.

63. TaylorTRoom said:

    May 12th, 2009 at 3:56 am

    Nate, I googled for two things- charge at arrest, and charge at trial. These are two very different things. For example, Dvoracek was charged with a felony assault at arrest. However, the charges were dropped- therefore, no charges at trial, because there was no trial.

    As to my examples, Simpson was charged with the same thing Granger was- shoplifting. Simpson was summarily dismissed, and Granger was sent home.

    If you look at the spectrum of Texas arrests, you see that Mack is lenient with transgressions until they cross a line of premeditation/danger, at which point he drops them (suspends indefinitely). If you look at a similar list of OU arrests, you see that the key differentiation for leniency is importance of player to the program. Taking in Chaisson (feeder HS, key need in light of 2010 recruiting to date) fits that.

64. Spring Branch Horn said:

    May 12th, 2009 at 5:24 am

    Taylor – your last paragraph really nailed it. Really long unreadable posts by dumbass sooners does not make it any less true.

    AAS – the NCAA ain’t a free market. You play by the rules (or you don’t).

    Any discussion where you use the word gay and you spell it “ghey” automatically makes you lose that argument unless of course you are “ghey”.

65. intellectual type said:

    May 12th, 2009 at 5:54 am

    If all american sooner actually attended OU, they should lose their accreditation immediately.

66. all american sooner said:

    May 12th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    “Fascinating that the legal system which granted the restraining order would reward his reprehensible behavior with such a sweet deal. Things that make one go “Hmmmm.””

    What makes me go “Hmmmm” is the baby’s bottom level of naivety your “Hmmmm” seems to be saying about you.

    To be brief: a legal system that is based soley on this notion of “rights”, as ours happens to be, cannot be anything other than corrupt to its very roots. That must be so because it is so on a metaphysical level.

    The concept of rights are always related to the idea of possessions and if one can reflect about it, then one can see that only a selfish man can view the world in terms of possessions and, thus, only a selfish man so singularly focuses on this idea of “rights”. And, of course, does it need to be said that a selfish man is always corrupt to his very roots?

    This can be easily confirmed is one just bothers to look around. Haven’t we all noticed that the more legalistic one is, the more “rights” a person feels he has a right to, the more of an asshole that person tends to be. Assholes, since the beginning of time, have always used the rationale of “rights” to justify they’re being assholes and screwing other people around. Would be why just about every lawyer you see walking around would be found to be an asshole once you got to know him better than just surface level, and, hell, even on the mere surface level, most of them would qualify as assholes on that alone.

    The slight of hand which the quote unquote “good” people (the ones with the rights) always seems to get away with can be summed up as this: since the good based on rights is artificial, what they do to legitimate it is to always blame the weak and the disadvantaged and to use them as their scapegoat. In other words, since their good is not innately good (and they know this on some level) they instinctively seek a victim to pummel with their moralisms and stick the label of “evil” upon them. And so they always end up using the label of “evil” to legitimate the artificiality of their rights.

    It is the straw man tactic. Since a man of rights, in truth, sucks moral ass, he has to create some impossible and unrealistic immoral and evil man to blame and to prop himself up with. The victimized person typically being one who fails to or who is unable, for whatever reasons (typically only due to life circumstances), to fulfill the obligations of a right. And so the good people of rights end up bashing and punishing in an unholy manner another person – another person whose only difference with them and their natures is one which is essentially one of only circumstance.

    That would be why it is written that the sinners of the world will “sooner” see heaven than the so called “good man” who bases his morality on the notion of rights. Is a pretty obvious statement once one understands that the man of rights is what is otherwise known as the asshole.

    So sorry Hornfans, but you see, even the good book seems to be saying that the lowly Sooners will end up in heaven long before you oh so snobbish and morally self-righteous Horns. Heck, maybe burnt orange is fitting and is color of the purgatory you men of rights will be spending alot of your future time in.

67. ponderos said:

    May 12th, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    Clearly I cannot choose the goblet in front of me.

68. MIA said:

    May 12th, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    Wow, that’s a special kind of sooner ignorance. He must have made it to English 2.

69. all american sooner said:

    May 12th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    “I didn’t read the whole thing, naturally, but I believe it’s just a case of a sooner with a thesaurus trying to say: “The ends justifies the means. And, everybody does it!””

    This would not quite be the case. The idea of placing what is less real ahead of what is more real also signifies, aside from all that was stated above, another basic and common term which may help to elaborate my meaning. This inversion of values also serves as the basic foundational principle of what we tend to refer to as “lying”. All lies and lying always involves this placing of what is less real ahead of what is more real.

    The point being that a man who is in the habit of doing the above is by his very nature a two faced liar. It means that such a man not only lies when it is opportunistic for him (this we can pretty much understand and forgive), but that his dishonesty runs much deeper than this. On a deeper level, it means that he is incapable, by his very nature, even of being able to perceive what is true. His eyes are condemn to being only able to perceive what is a lie. It can only recognize lies and never what is true. In short, his lying nature reaches down to the level of his very perceptions in a basic sense, to the point where he himself can only be faintly aware of the deception his lying nature plays against himself.

    And your statement above seems to confirm the truth of this view. It is after all another one of those eternal truths about human nature. That you are utterly incapable of grasping the truth, even while it is being spoon fed to you (by me), only illustrates the degree of ignorance and deception which a mind falls into whenever it places what is less real ahead of what is more real.

    You see, the difference between you and me is that my logic is grounded in the firm, granite foundations of the will, and not in the mere shifting, foundationless sands of the mind and its abstractions. A mind whose logic can reach to the foundations of the will has the capacity to see to the very foundations of the world, from its very beginnings to its end, and it is foolish for a mind which can only think in terms of abstractions to ever dare to challenge such a mind which is higher born.

    Such a contest would never be a fair one. The belief that a mere lowly, abstract mind could best a mind of the will would be analogous to believing that a man on tricycle, still in his diapers, and sucking a lollypop could best in a joust a fully armed knight in shining armour. It just ain’t gonna ever happen. The mind of the will is always destined to break the mere mind of absraction in two and to do so with rather ease. A group sneak attack from behind may work to a limited degree, but never a direct, face to face confrontation. Certainly never when the contest happens to be over the nature of the truth.

70. NateHeupel said:

    May 12th, 2009 at 8:35 pm

    Taylor, you didn’t do enough homework. Simpson was already in Stoops’ doghouse. As I stated before, he was part of a group of players who got into a brawl in downtown OKC. No charges were ever filed because it was mutual assault where no one backed down. Your example, the shoplifting, wasn’t strike one. It was strike two. Next time, search better. So, again, that example fails. I’m still waiting on the Hunter Wall to Ryan Broyles comparison.

    The problem is that you’re using a standard which misses the mark. Stoops goes off of the actual action, not the charges filed. Dvoracek got the boot for a violent assault while drunk. I went to OU during his tenure, and let’s just say if Dvoracek came into a bar, you left. No charges were ever pressed, but OU DESPERATELY needed Dvoracek that year. Watch USC run draw plays up the gut against OU with impunity in the 2005 Orange Bowl and see whether or not I’m right. Not to mention Dvoracek was an All-Big 12 performer.

    Jarboe got the boot after a gun charge because his little rap video proved that he wasn’t learning a damn thing. OU had, and still has, a supremely desperate need for receivers.

    Simpson was a two time loser from John Blake’s recruiting group which gave Stoops a hell of a lot of trouble. Go back and look at OU’s 2000 NC team, and there’s a lot of youth on it.

    Hunter Wall got strike one (breaking into someone’s house) and strike two (weed) at the same time.

    In contrast, DeMarcus Granger’s worst action was stealing a coat. If not for that, we wouldn’t have had anything to show for our trip to the Fiesta Bowl that year.

    Ryan Broyles was using a gas key and code he got because he was a local hero at Norman High. Broyles got a redshirt suspension. (Broyles was already on the depth chart and was projected to play as a true freshman when this happened.)

    So, let’s tally:
    Simpson – Backup – Two minor strikes, two occasions. Booted.
    Wall – Backup – Two minor strikes, one occasion. Booted.
    Dvoracek – Starter, All-Big 12 – One major strike, one occasion. Booted for one year, reinstated 2005. (Note: Graduated with honors and hasn’t been in a modicum of trouble since)
    Broyles – Backup, WR rotation – One minor strike, one occasion. Redshirt “Suspension” and removal from depth chart.

    It’s the action and the history Stoops punishes, not the charge or the arrest. You’ve got a spreadsheet, Taylor. Prove me wrong. This is a highly enjoyable distraction from studying property law.

71. TaylorTRoom said:

    May 13th, 2009 at 3:02 am

    Brandon Everage- two minor strikes, two occasions, no boot.

72. all american sooner said:

    May 14th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    “The ends justifies the means. And, everybody does it!”….so basically, same old…”

    Actually, in a sense now that I think about it, I sort of owe you an apology. You were probably not (and are still not, and will probably still not be even after this post)fully cognizant of the meaning of your response, but in an accidental sort of way, you manage to hit fairly close to the underlying meaning of the post.

    That is one of the better examples of placing what is less real ahead of what is more real: the idea that the end results is more important than the originating motivations or the means. This mistake is one of the fundamental errors of modern thought and is so pervasive that the error has even come to infect and erroneously color just about all our perceptions. In fact, the placing of end results ahead of originating motivations and means is the mistake inherent, it seems, in all scientific and empirical (as it means today) thought. And since this error roots itself beyond the volitional level and actually roots itself on the level of basic, sense perceptions, this is an error, it seems, which few people are still aware of. The metaphysical principle of results being greater than motivations and means is always, it seems, right below all modern scientific and empirical perceptions and serves as one of its necessary foundational principles.

    One day the world will come to realize that there are two forms of nothingness. One which comes from worldly failure and the other which comes from moral failure, with one of them leading to salvation, while the other only leads to another further turn on the eternal wheel of torture. And this realization could possibly be the underlying meaning behind the doctrine of Felix Culpa or the fortunate fall, the doctrine of the fortunate sin. It seems that but for the utter reality of sin, man would be lost forever and remain forever unredeemable. That modern man has little to no concept of original sin is very telling about us and the modern world we inhabit – and most of us still like to believe it is progress? I say, there are some places it best not to progress to. Does it need to be said that not all forms of “progress” are worth it or beneficial in the long run?

73. Vasherized said:

    May 14th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    Ha. You’re totally baked.

74. Blueshorn said:

    June 12th, 2009 at 6:53 am

    Well, it’s official, boys. Chaisson is a Gooner:

    Justin Chaisson joins Sooners

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