Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Re: More ASU troubles
From: billy@anasaz (Bill Moore)
Date: 4 Sep 92 07:58:10 GMT
Organization: Anasazi, Inc.  Phoenix, Az

In article <1992Sep2.183128.3701@asuvax.eas.asu.edu> kennedy@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Ralph Kennedy) writes:
->crs@milton.u.washington.edu (Cliff Slaughterbeck) writes:
->> Heard on the late news last night that the Arizona State University 
->> administration had suspended 10 players including the starting QB and one
->> of the starting LB's for this Saturday's game against Washington.
->
->     No, they only suspended those two, not ten.
->
->> The word was that they suspended them as an example due to problems with the
->> law that the football players had had during the past year.  If this 
->> report is true and Jr. quarterback Bret Powers has left school, it would
->> mean that a pure freshman would take over the reins of the Sun Devil
->> offense this Saturday.
->> 
->> Ralph--got any more details?
->
->     Well it appears that somebody who's been practicing
->at linebacker as of Monday will be starting against the
->Huskies Saturday night.  If that indeed happens, more
->than likely the bookies will take the game off the boards.
->The backup (after the Huskies bash the first guy's head
->in) hasn't played quarterback since high school.  Snyder
->has managed to lose his top three quarterbacks from
->last Spring.
->
->     I say "if that happens" because it's still not clear
->what's going on.  Apparently quarterback McGee and the
->other fellow are accused of a few incidents *last* fall
->involving stealing merchandise from stores.  They were
->interviewed by police and McGee says he was told that
->if nothing was heard in a few months to forget about it.

Not exactly.  McGee was also a witness to a shooting in another case (geesh)
and his "deal" was the cops wouldn't charge him in the burglaries if he
testified aganist the shooter.  He didn't so they did.

The problem is that nobody, including McGee, told the coaching staff that
this was going on.  If he had, Ohio State would be short one quarterback
right now.  
"
->Meanwhile, the other fellow made some sort of plea bargain
->last spring in which he apparently implicated McGee, so
->now suddenly McGee has been served with a summons to appear
->for third degree burglary, a felony.
->
Not exactly.  Burglary carries a jail sentence.  McGee was charged with
"Class 6 Felony, Unspecified".  Neat, huh.

... stuff deleted ...

>     Athletic director Charles Harris just gave a riot
>act speech on Monday to the media, and now this bombshell.

Bombshell?  Yeah, right. Half the basketball team's in jail with the 2nd
string quaterback and he didn't notice anything wrong.

->Things have taken on an almost surrealistic hue around here
->at this point.  Everyone is just in shock.
->
->     Tune in for the game Saturday night if you want
->a few laughs.  Or if you like dead donkeys.
->
Wrong.  The Huskies will run out of Sun Devil stadium screaming for mercy!
Well, not exactly.  But I think we'll beat the spread.  McGee was 1st string
but he was an inexperienced freshman AND Snyder didn't have a 2nd or 3rd
stringer behind him.  Rauer was moved out of his linebacking position last
week when Snyder started working on his "holy shit" plan.  

Watch.  You'll see a few long, safe passes to Gully to keep them loose 
enough for Bates to find the holes, ASU ball control and a stunning 
defense.  We may even win it.

(Damn its hard being a fan sometimes.  Thank God we beat Nebraska in 1975
or I'd be losing the faith about now.)
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