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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 1118760, member: 2531"] For starters, you want to tort of battery (as opposed to the crime) as it has a lower standard and would thus be more beneficial to your argument. I guess you know that because I should "trust [you]" because you "know [the law]" (rolls eyes). The tort of battery consists of: "the intentional causation of harmful or offensive contact with another's person without that person's consent." Your half-baked argument breaks down because by virtue of playing football the other player consents to reasonably foreseeable physical contact (aka contact that both a reasonable person and the other player wouldn't deem offensive). Straight sucker-punching a guy in the face isn't part of football. Nobody agrees to that risk by playing football, and such contact is reasonably offensive. It does not matter if it is on a football field, a parking lot, or anywhere else (other than a boxing ring). Location does not matter. That said, contact that is part of the game (i.e. blocks, tackles, etc.) are reasonable foreseeable and non-offensive in the context of football. Much like you clearly don't understand the judicial system or the country (well state in this case) in which you live, you also CLEARLY don't understand how the NCAA works. The NCAA establishes MINIMUM punishments with the understanding that conferences and schools can go above the MINIMUM. Hunt served the MINIMUM punishment. Punishing a player beyond the MINIMUM (I keep saying that because I'm not sure you understand the concept) is not only well within the rules, it is actively encouraged. In summary, almost everything you wrote is wrong, and I only sound like a saint because you sound like a jerk with serious anger management problems ("I clocked a few guys for holding and a bunch of other dirty S&*t just like the kid that hit Hunt from behind to the helmet.") who has a kid who is an absolute screw up ("I wish my son made as few mistakes as Hunt as I have a kid the same age" - Your description, not mine - I've never het him and thus pass no personal judgment.). That is a remarkably low bar. [/QUOTE]

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