This isn't anything like Manziel man.
C'mon. This is a kid, whether you like it or not, still has rape investigations going against him. And I know you don't like it either, but I think the victim's story got buried. And buried hard.
It's a chain reaction of idiocy from this kid that just shows he's incapable of maturing. This isn't about being a kid...
This just encapsulates everything wrong with the sports world in general. He can throw a ball real good, so who cares right?
Great. That's your opinion backed up with no facts. An opinion that will never be substantiated because the cops did that girl a disservice. But lets say that Winston isn't guilty, they did him the same disservice because he'll always have this hanging over his head too.
We don't know if he did it. So I'm not going to assume he did or didn't. I'm going to evaluate and criticize what I can based off of what I know. I'll let the people whose job it is to gather those facts and investigate worry about the other stuff.
I'm not sure on the rules of suspensions, but I can't imagine it being allowed that you can step foot on the playing field during the game or warmups. If so, just further NCAA failures.
I can't imagine that it's against the rules until the game is in progress. I doubt the NCAA cares that he's on the field during warm-ups when the suspension isn't an NCAA suspension. It's the school's own imposed punishment. In fact, Winston could have played today if they had wanted him to because the school gave out the punishment, not the NCAA.
And seriously, why do you keep defending him anyway?
Why do you keep attacking him? I defend him because I think the attacks are over the top. I think the kid is a stellar football player and I also know that I have no possible way to verify or investigate the issues he has off the field. So I'm going to "defend him" when people are trashing the guy on issues that would be completely overlooked if they were any other player based on Winston's history.
"The decision to extend the suspension was made because Winston was not entirely truthful or forthcoming regarding the incident, a source told ESPN."
Ah yes, the good old "anonymous source" on ESPN.
Excuses are like asses, man.
So are opinions...especially ones bred of ignorance.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you about this incident but as far as I'm concerned, the only reason he's not in prison right now is because the cops screwed up the rape complaint. He gets zero benefit of the doubt with me.
And that's based on your knowledge of the facts of the case, extensive experience in law enforcement and your extensive experience in the prosecution of criminals?
It amazes me how many people take the stance you're taking now, Alan, despite being completely ignorant of the facts of the case. The cops did botch the case...but there might not have been a case had they investigated it properly anyways. I don't know. Neither do you. This is America, though, and the presumption of innocence does exist. So I don't know why people are so insistent that Winston is guilty of rape when they don't know anything about what happened that night. I don't know anything about it so I'm going to plead ignorance.