31 players suspended after Miami-Fla.International game--Coker gone?

[underpants]

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/6064744

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) - Once the fighting ended, the fingerpointing began, with the majority of Miami and Florida International players claiming the other side started an ugly, sideline-clearing brawl.

On Sunday, those schools and their leagues found plenty of blame to go around.
After reviewing video of the melee that marred Saturday night's matchup, 31 players - 13 from the Hurricanes, and 18 from FIU - were suspended for his team's next game. Miami plays at Duke this coming Saturday, FIU visits Alabama Oct. 28.



Miami's Coker should lose job after brawl
http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/6066906

[BOSSHOG]

1. From what I saw they should be kicked off the teams

maybe kicked out of school. A one game suspension is a joke and does not send any kind of message at all except their actions were acceptable. If I were coker, I'd want to go.

I'm a Razorback fan and it pisses me off to no end any time I see a chucklehead on my team do something stupid and they have done a lot of it this year.

Slaps on the wrist are for infants.

[fishwax]

2. especially the guy who came in swinging his helmet

If someone on my team did that, i wouldn't want him on the team anymore. One game is a joke.

[Captain Hilts]

3. One game against Duke is really a joke. nt

[Awsi Dooger]

4. I think he has been suspended indefinitely

Anthony Reddick, a backup safety but very talented, a former star as a freshman. I heard tonight he's been suspended indefinitely and IMO he shouldn't play the remainder of the year.

[Jawja]

7. Hi, BOSSHOG!!

Loved that Razorback WIN over Auburn!! :bounce:

[BOSSHOG]

8. WOO PIG SOOIEEE!!!

I live in Mississippi and everyone in this state were Hog Fans after the game. Its so great to be loved ... Obviously not too much love going to Auburn.

[nolabels]

5. It's all about the money

Some of these college teams are like cash cows. The broadcasters and many others would have a field day in court with breach of contract or some other damn thing. The reason everybody got to see it was because it was broadcast (probably by contract, of course). If it were just about playing football at at some Junior or community college a lot of the players would be bounced off the team with out a doubt.

[genie_weenie]

6. Every single player involved in that fight should be

thrown off the football team and have their scholarships revoked. Miami should then do open tryouts from the rest of the students.

Oh, but wait we are talking The U football her. Money and PRestige is much mroe important than right and wrong...

[Scurrilous]

9. Shalala satisfied with UM punishments

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"University of Miami president Donna Shalala appeared at today's weekly football news conference, apologizing again for UM's involvement in the nationally publicized brawl last Saturday with Florida International and saying she was satisfied with the school's punishment for those involved -- the indefinite suspension of safety Anthony Reddick for using his helmet as a weapon and hitting an FIU player with it and the one-game suspension of 12 other players.

''We have disciplined our student-athletes and given them serious warnings,'' she said. ``We have set a new standard being that we will eliminate from our teams students that get into fights. That is a new standard from the university and it means we have zero tolerance for this kind of behavior.

``The sad part is for the men and women who have spent most of the last decade recruiting young men and women of character to the university to play on our sports teams and restoring our image in this community. I believe that the young men we have recruited for our football team are young men of great character but they did a very bad thing . . .

``And it's time for me to say publicly that I believe in them, that I believe they did something awful, but that I want them to continue at the University of Miami and it's time for me to say to the community and to those that have been sending me e-mails that this university will be firm and punish people that do bad things.

``But we will not throw any student under the bus for instant restoration of our image or our reputation. I will not hang them in a public square. I will not eliminate their participation at the university. I will not take away their scholarships. We will discipline them appropriately. We will set a high standard for them. And we will make it very clear what our expectations are for them. And we will do the same thing for our coaches and for our athletic director and for any student on this campus whether or not they participate on our sports teams."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15782495.htm