Spark004 said:
i totally agree with everyone. But if ya'll do remember Ray Hudson was caught with pot and arrested in 2004 and mike shula didnt even suspend him for the auburn game the following saturday. I agree but we are not totally clear either of this type of behavior.
What is interesting here is I
do remember the Hudson incident and everything surrounding it. And, to say "he wasn't suspended by Shula" is a true, but a total mis-representation of the situation.
1) This situation didn't happen in Hudson's place of residence.
2) The individual who leased the place was the person who had the pot anyway. That happened to be a lady friend of a girl Ray was hanging out with occasionally and when she was questioned by the police she told them it was Ray's stash.
3) Ray submitted to, and passed a drug test within a few days after this happened.
4) Shula looked at the facts of the matter, found sufficient and solid evidence that backed up Ray's story, and that was the end of this story.
People wonder how stories like the famous "brick incident" slowly find their way into local lore and are then believed as fact? Your post is a prime example of this happening.
NOW...as to this thread.
These players may not be suspended for the first game, but that doesn't mean they aren't being punished. It's simply not reported what disciplinary action is taking place.
FACT: We have players on our team that have had off the field "incidents" this summer...they have been going through disciplinary actions this summer and some of those punishments go through fall practice and past the first game.
We've known about this situation for weeks, but have chosen not to post it publically, it hasn't made the "news wires," leaving those "poking fun" at Croom and MSU close to the ole' adage of the "pot calling the kettle black."
The question that needs to be asked, and answered personally, is would you rather have disciplinary actions handled in house, or in the public eye?
Alabama is handling theirs in house. A great example of that is the story the media was all to happy in reporting that Slim, Hall and Keys were suspended due to academics for the Cotton Bowl.
FACT: Slim was suspended for his grades. The other two, for other matters that, again, weren't reported by the media because they didn't know. Again, it could have been posted around the 'net but it was one of those situations the staff decided to handle in house and those that knew about their decision and those incidents didn't go "blabbing" it around the 'net.
Personally, I have plenty of reasons not to respect Croom. But, just because I don't know what he's doing with these players in house isn't one of them.
And, for the "FWIW" department....he's been treating players he recruited differently than those Sherrill brought in since day 1.
