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Message: [QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 1486434, member: 185"] listen here's the deal from somebody who would know. That's because I played the position all my sporting life, was AA at it with a shot at the pro's and still hold my colleges record for sacks and tackles. I narcissitically list that to emphasize I know of what I speak. We had a similar blow up here when Rutgers had a player (Lafrege?) who took down our qb (Robinson?) with a brutal hit. At the time I was going back and forth with some on here saying that it was a good legal (at least at the time pretargeting) hit as I'd made similar hits many times. In that one it was more bang bang vs. this one with the guys momentum carrying through the qb with no way to stop. There was no penalty on it which I thought was correct. Still feel the same today in looking back on it, except understand now that the way I played and this hit is no longer acceptable. (see Bees you were ahead of your time :) As for this one here there is no way in hell that this was premeditated nor was there any directive by the coaches to "take the qb out". Rather you have an non starter jacked to play trying to make a name for himself in any way possible so he's overzealous in his selfish approach. And we see the result. That said he most definitely could have and should have pulled up to try and avoid him or at least slow down in the hit. Wasn't premeditated yes, but there's no way around it it was dirty. And it will now follow him going forward. When your that big it IS hard to stop your momentum true but where he is guilty as hell is where he not only didn't even try to pull up (zero doubt in my mind having been there multiple times that there was ample time to do it or at least try), so not only was there no attempt to slow down, rather even after seeing the ball released (his eyes in that pic show he was locked on it all), rather he in point of fact did the opposite and instead followed through with even greater force and emphasis the potential of which had the potential to be lethal (not kidding). It's a dirty play by a dirty player. Maybe he was known as a "good kid" before hand but now he's simply a dirty selfish player out for individual glory at nearly the expense of anothers potential health and well being. Sure the kid "made a mistake" as I heard said but IMO that mistake was very nearly criminal in the reality of it's end result and like any mistake or infraction the offending party need be commensurately punished. As I wrote elsewhere that's not happening here and this schmuck, his coach, his school are all getting off easy on this one. If the sport wants to save itself there's no room for this and they need to revisit these rules to make it punitive for the player coach and school. To go beyond current rules and coaching so more of an emphasis is on ALWAYS avoiding the attempted kill shot (which this was both potentially literally and figuratively). This is a horrible missed opportunity so far and hopefully with enough trumpeting this, as is happening here and elsewhere, hopefully some attention is brought to the matter. [/QUOTE]

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