Drinking costs Hofstra coach, BU players (and others)
Posted by billhoward
Drinking costs Hofstra coach, BU players (and others)
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: May 05, 2010 11:23AM
Hofstra's new basketball coach, Tim Welsh, is now the new former coach after a DUI charge. [www.nytimes.com]
He blew a 0.18% BAC according to [www.duiattorney.com]. Cornell had a basketball coach in the 1970s with a serious drinking problem when he was hired and it was a barely kept secret at his old school, meaning the AD at the time perhaps didn't do due diligence on behalf of Cornell as Hofstra may not have done here.
Like this is shocking: [www.boston.com] (passed along by Nancy Fisher)
In Boston. College students. Drinking. St. Patrick's Day. Who'd have thought? Only it was 3 BU hockey players: 2 were tossed off the team, 1 will be suspended for part of 2010-2011. Jack Parker's rule is you only drink on Saturday night and St. Patrick's day fell on Wednesday. Damn. (Also 2 days before BU got bounced from the Hockey East tournament.) But the undercurrent of the story suggests it was not a minor transgression and they'd had other issues.
I don't want to turn Ugarte's post on the Virgnia lacrosse killing into a long-running thread; it's the right length now. I added it to the post here because of the drinking connection. George Huguely, the men's lax player accused of the killing had a history of drinking and violence, by some accounts.
Last year, a Hobart lacrosse player died from a combination of drinking (0.29 BAC) and painkillers, according to [www.nj.com]
Is it the drinking age (ignoring it) that's the problem or the inability of colleges and students to be more concerned and nvolved in the well-being of their fellow students? David Skorton supports the 21-year drinking age because he says there's medical evidence that it saves lives. (At least Skorton doesn't waffle on big issues.) I worry about the overall impact on respect for the law in general when so many people flout laws that don't make sense to them.
He blew a 0.18% BAC according to [www.duiattorney.com]. Cornell had a basketball coach in the 1970s with a serious drinking problem when he was hired and it was a barely kept secret at his old school, meaning the AD at the time perhaps didn't do due diligence on behalf of Cornell as Hofstra may not have done here.
Like this is shocking: [www.boston.com] (passed along by Nancy Fisher)
In Boston. College students. Drinking. St. Patrick's Day. Who'd have thought? Only it was 3 BU hockey players: 2 were tossed off the team, 1 will be suspended for part of 2010-2011. Jack Parker's rule is you only drink on Saturday night and St. Patrick's day fell on Wednesday. Damn. (Also 2 days before BU got bounced from the Hockey East tournament.) But the undercurrent of the story suggests it was not a minor transgression and they'd had other issues.
I don't want to turn Ugarte's post on the Virgnia lacrosse killing into a long-running thread; it's the right length now. I added it to the post here because of the drinking connection. George Huguely, the men's lax player accused of the killing had a history of drinking and violence, by some accounts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/sports/05lacrosse.html?ref=sports
In November 2008, he was arrested near a fraternity house not far from the campus of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va., for public swearing, intoxication and resisting arrest. The arresting officer, R..L. Moff, said she needed to use a Taser to subdue him. She said Huguely threatened to “kill everyone” at the police department. “He was by far the most rude, most hateful and most combative college kid I ever dealt with,” Officer Moff said in a telephone interview.
Last year, a Hobart lacrosse player died from a combination of drinking (0.29 BAC) and painkillers, according to [www.nj.com]
Is it the drinking age (ignoring it) that's the problem or the inability of colleges and students to be more concerned and nvolved in the well-being of their fellow students? David Skorton supports the 21-year drinking age because he says there's medical evidence that it saves lives. (At least Skorton doesn't waffle on big issues.) I worry about the overall impact on respect for the law in general when so many people flout laws that don't make sense to them.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/05/2010 11:54AM by billhoward.
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