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Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli talks during a news conference in this Dec. 29, 2009 file photo taken in Los Angeles, Calif.
The former Oregon quarterback visited the Ole Miss campus in Oxford this weekend and coach Houston Nutt offered him a place on the team as a walk-on. The California native accepted Sunday afternoon.
He can play immediately under NCAA rules because he has earned his undergraduate degree and is enrolling in graduate school at Ole Miss where he says on his website he will enter the Parks and Recreation Management program.
Masoli was considered a possible Heisman Trophy candidate after a breakout season at Oregon in 2009, but coach Chip Kelly kicked him off the team after twice getting into trouble with the law in six months.
And what does this have to do with Masoli? Does he have a black parent? What little I have heard about his heritage is that he is South East Asian.
Its also not just a "black athelete" thing either. Being just an Athelete period gets you by on a lot of things these days.
I am referring to Ole Miss not this board.
Here is my problem with this situation.
He plead guilty to a crime. Now whether he did it or not or if the confession was forced , I do not know, but here is the catch. He was on probation and knew that if he did even the slightest thing out of line he was gone. What does he do? He goes out and is caught with marijuanna and driving on a suspended license!
He obviously did not get the message!
All of this and I am not even factoring that he was involved in some criminal activity as a high schooler that we will not know about because the records were sealed because he was a juvenile.
Now, I believe in second chances and have been given one for certain mistakes I have made, but I knew that I would have to "walk the line" or I would be finished. Second chances are about staying out of situations or away from people that will get you in trouble. Taking it even a step farther, you must avoid those situations/people that might even give a hint that you had done something wrong.
At some point, he must be held seriously accountable for his actions. Yet, we as a society keep giving him a pass.
I was upset at first, but I'm just going to be the faithful fan I have always been and go on record to say....GO REBELS! lets get that third 9th win season in a row!
Is that your best rebuttal to my comments?
They didn't need another QB with serious baggage for only 4 months.
It is so lame to hurl out the state ole miss argument. I don't give a crap about either but I do care about what is moral and about the example set for our youth.
He placed himself in a situation where he was charged and pleaded guilty to a charge of second degree burglary, he's a criminal. It's just that simple.
I guess he didn't have the pot in his car when he was stopped either, huh? I guess the police must have planted that in his car.
The bottom line is that a quarterback is supposed to be a leader. His are not the actions of a leader.
His are the actions of someone who makes bad decisions; a criminal.
The Oregon coach was smart enough and concerned enough about the integrity of his program not to allow someone like Masoli to remain within it.
The Ole Miss coach and university leadership seem not to possess that same integrity.
One would think that the integrity of the institutions is more important than wins on a sports field/court.
But, I guess that's not the case, huh?
It's really quite sad.
Now on to the M$U fans.
Why are you so jealous?!?! It\'s almost funny reading some of the lame brain stuff on here and else where. Can you say hypocrites?!?! M$u would have give their left arm for Cam Newton **who btw was caught stealing laptops**, but I guess that's OK, right?
BTW, M$U would have also given their left leg for Masoli, but he didn't want to play in a dump and for a team that hasn't even been to a bowl game since 2001.
$tate fans......hypocrites.
This is a guy that plead guilty to a burglary charge for stealing a laptop computer from a fraternity house, right?
So, did he steal because he needed the money or couldn't afford to buy a laptop?
If so, how can he afford to go to graduate school at Ole Miss unless someone else is paying?
He's gaming the system by choosing to come to Ole Miss and enrolling in a program that Oregon doesn't have so that he can play immediately.
If the NCAA isn't watching this situation very closely, they should be.
There's definitely something fishy about all of this and it seems that Ole Miss would have been much better off to stay out of it.
But, I guess that Nutt is so desperate that he's willing to risk the reputation of the school and put up with the additional NCAA scrutiny, huh?
That is just a typical comeback when faced with the truth. You know MS sucks in many areas compared to other states so your defense is, "why stay".
But I will answer anyway.
Leave Mississippi because of ole miss's follies or because MS is at the bottom of so many lists? That's easy. I am not at the bottom of those list, the state is. I have retirement security, health care, education etc. so it doesn't affect me personally that MS sucks in so many areas. But it does hurt my pride. Also, I have property and relatives here and I love Mississippi's gun laws, or lack thereof.
Why stick around then? I love Mississippi, warts and all.