Missouri Gives Starting Running Back The Boot

by ccmachine on Sep 1, 2010 2:45 PM CDT in Football

One guy we won't have to worry about anymore when the Sooners visit Columbia next month is Derrick Washington. I had stated in several of our pre-season write ups that the Tigers needed to give Washington more carries than they did last season because I though that greater use of his 4.6 yard per carry average would be beneficial. Now that isn't even an option.

Washington was permanently suspended from the team on Wednesday as a result of sexual assault charges that have been filed against him. He had already been elected as a team captain for the 2010 season after leading the Tigers in rushing yards the last two seasons. Missouri will now turn to sophomore Kendial Lawrence and junior De'Vion Moore to produce rushing yards.

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Wow! What a blow to MU

Amazing how a young man has everything going for him and somehow loses his mind and screws it up. This will be a tough loss for the tigers and put more pressuree on their passing game.

by soonerspeak on Sep 1, 2010 6:26 PM CDT reply actions

wow...that's pretty serious

But he was suspended..just for charges being FILED. I mean I’m all for discipline, but there is a line some where. He’s not GUILTY of anything yet!

Guess we are now guilty before trial now huh? especially if you are an athlete.

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by Redhawk on Sep 1, 2010 6:33 PM CDT reply actions

so you think people who aren’t found guilty of a crime, but have committed a crime, do not deserve punishment?

the coaches are more informed about the story and those parties involved than you or the media. if they kicked the #1 running back off their team a week before the season starts.. you know it’s not because “someone cried rape”… it’s because the coaches know things you don’t.

by Displaced Longhorn on Sep 1, 2010 9:22 PM CDT up reply actions

they do?

seriously..he maybe guilty as hell. But he’s INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. Anyone can accuse someone of anything and press charges…that doesn’t mean he’s guilty or mean he should be kicked off a team.

There are a lot of reasons to kick a guy off a team…but not JUST because he was accused of something

by Redhawk on Sep 1, 2010 9:30 PM CDT up reply actions

good thing he hasn’t been sentenced and players don’t have a right to their scholarship and this isn’t a court of law but an athletic department.

why don’t you call up the supreme court and let them know this young man’s sixth amendment rights are being trampled upon.

you do not know the full story, what the school’s investigation has discovered, what the football player has said, what he has admitted, what proof, evidence, or witnesses have said. go ahead and keep thinking that a football scholarship can only be revoked when a player is found guilty in a court of law, and not at a coach’s discretion.

by Displaced Longhorn on Sep 2, 2010 11:09 AM CDT up reply actions

I’m glad you know everything about this. Since you are on the coaching staff, what exactly did you all find out?

It must be a nice world where you live, where no innocent person is ever falsely accused. Where authority never makes a mistake

by Redhawk on Sep 2, 2010 3:07 PM CDT up reply actions

I could be wrong, but I think that I remember reading that he kept trying to make contact with her repeatedly after a restraining order as well… Maybe RockM can help us out here

by OU JJ on Sep 1, 2010 7:45 PM CDT via mobile reply actions