Pac-10 Discipline (or lack thereof) for groin shot

by islandbruin on Jan 27, 2009 6:01 AM PST

Remember Leonard Washington's groin shot in the Oklahoma game? For curiosity, I went back and looked at $C's box score for the following game. Washington started and played 27 minutes.

So what?

Yesterday, Conference USA gave a 1 game suspension to the Houston player who stepped on Budinger, for violating the league's sportsmanship policy.

This is just another example (alongside the quality of our SPTR's, our bowl matchups, our TV packages) of how not to run a league. Hopefully new blood will look to hold the $C thugs (and from any other team) accountable for their actions.

Heaven knows we can't count on Timmeh or Petey to do the right thing. When the league won't step up either, we wind up with the ethical cesspool across town.

Hats off to C-USA for showing how a real league works in situations like this.

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Don't forget throwing a ball at Aboya's face

last year didn’t even result in a foul, never mind a suspension.

Hansen can’t leave soon enough…

"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"

by silverlakebruin on Jan 27, 2009 8:29 AM PST reply actions

Houston

The article in the Houston Chronicle made it seem that the 1 game suspension was mandatory and imposed whenever a “flagrant” foul was called.

See my post, elsewhere: I do not thing a one game suspension was sufficient and I also believe that sanctions should have been imposed on the players that “celebrated” the foul.

Washington’s shot to the groin was just as bad if not worse because he did it in a way where he was trying to hide it.

Does either the Pac 10 or the NCAA have a rule that a flagrant foul carries a mandatory 1 game penalty? Or, is it just Conf USA?

sjh

by Class of 66 on Jan 27, 2009 9:15 AM PST reply actions

Don't know

But I would point out again that I followed Floyd’s comments closely after that incident and he never said one negative thing about Washington’s openly dirty play. He called LW a “freshman” but said that he was a good kid, etc. I believe LW also started the next game or played his usual minutes.

Somehow, if this had happened under CBH, I don’t think it would have been swept under the rug by CBH.

by Barnes2JJ on Jan 27, 2009 1:01 PM PST up reply actions