While there's no question she shouldn't have put her hands on him, it seems equally true he shouldn't have put his hands on her.
Hold On, there, 22...'I know what you did last summer'...
It's not like there will be any intelligent Horn or Poke fans who will come here to flame about it. First of all, there aren't any, and secondly, given the states of their sports programs they would only prove my first point if they did post here on the topic. Bitchslap City.
It's not like there will be any intelligent Horn or Poke fans who will come here to flame about it. First of all, there aren't any, and secondly, given the states of their sports programs they would only prove my first point if they did post here on the topic. Bitchslap City.
It's not like there will be any intelligent Horn or Poke fans who will come here to flame about it. First of all, there aren't any, and secondly, given the states of their sports programs they would only prove my first point if they did post here on the topic. Bitchslap City.
Mixon has paid and hopefully learned a lesson, but I believe that Stoops, Boren and the OU administration need to learn something as well....and that SHOULD be to put in place freshman curfews and make sure each athlete is made aware of all that he represents when playing at OU.
Age-wise, compared to me...you're new.I may not post often, but I'm about as new around here as you are.
Just never signed up for an account...been reading as a guest for MANY years.
What difference does that make, especially in light of what has happened at OU ? If such a curfew prevented a high school boy from coming to OU would you really want OU to bring him on board ?
I may not post often, but I'm about as new around here as you are.
Just never signed up for an account...been reading as a guest for MANY years.
Also means he's no longer a "no account". Although K2C says he'd argue with me about that.
Also means he's no longer a "no account". Although K2C says he'd argue with me about that.
Also means he's no longer a "no account". Although K2C says he'd argue with me about that.
Dang, you had to be a youngster then! You could read at an early age, but we did have a lot more pictures back then.
I'm very calm. My answering a question with a question was not to be confrontational.
I dunno CT. At first I find myself agreeing with the idea of a curfew. But then I remind myself that these kids are 18 years old and legally adults. If Bob and the coaches feel they have to put curfews and restrictions on kids they recruit, then maybe they should have recruited another kid that they didn't feel was prone to such errors in judgement. Teenagers are going to be teenagers. I definitely get that. But the vast majority of freshman who show up on OUs campus conduct themselves appropriately and stay out of trouble. Why allow a very small number of kids who don't, ruin it for the rest of the kids? I would think it would be pretty demoralizing and disappointing, to show up to OU your freshman year and have to abide by a curfew while the rest of your buddies get to stay out as late as they want and enjoy the college life/experience. At some point, the coaches have to have faith and trust in the athletes they recruit into the program.
If curfews were for all freshman athletes at all colleges, what's the issue ?
I understand there is no way anyone could have seen something like this coming. Nobody can predict how a person is going to react in a situation like that until they are confronted with it. But life is a series of lessons you learn as you get older. Mixon learned his lesson his first year on campus about how NOT to react to a situation like that. Simply putting a curfew on the kid doesn't guarantee he wouldn't be faced with a similar situation in upcoming years while at OU. So if he had no moral compass as a freshman on how to handle a chick getting in his face and getting physical in that manner, then that lack of moral compass is still there as a sophomore, junior, etc. Because everyone who enjoyed drinking and partying at that age knows, going out to bars and clubs there are always going to be situations like what happened with Mixon. It's unavoidable. Besides, curfews don't prevent situations like this anyways. Alcohol related events and/or disagreements like this happen 24/7. But I'm just not a fan of increasing controls on kids because of isolated events of teenagers making wrong decisions. At some point you have to let them live their lives and sometimes learn right from wrong the hard way.
