Link: Oregon's LeGarrett Blount Has Been Reinstated

[fireater]

There is no place in college football (money be damned) for his actions that night. So many focus on the punch, but his actions after that with coaches, teammates, fans, and security were the ones that convinced me he should never get the chance to play college football again.

And yea, Spikes punishment was not enough, neither Rolando's bumping the ref in the VaTech.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I can understand why he was reinstated. It is not like we went and had dinner with Deon Sanders or something. :wink:

 

[twofbyc]

I only saw the punch on Youtube the day after, but are you sure that the BSU player was taunting him? For all I could tell he could have just patted the guy on the shoulder and said "good game". I didn't see any other footage that proved he taunted. I just think it's hard to say what really caused Blount to go off the deep end that night. Maybe I'm wrong though.

What makes one think something was said was the fact the BSU coach started after his own player before the punch was thrown; what reason would he have to do that unless something was said? Coach was trying to pull him away almost at the exact moment he got hit. I can't believe that's a coincidence.

 

[Mamacalled]

The BSU player pretty clearly taunted him, he made sure he found blount, tapped him on the shoulder, said something to him and then smiled as he turned away before getting the smile knocked off his face.

Blount came out and said before the BSU game that Oregon was out for revenge after last years loss so im sure he was being sought after...

Blount said alot more than before the game and during the game. Words that aren't allowed on this ste. If he is going to run his mouth off like that he better not get upset when someone says something back.

 

[RollTideMang]

The BSU player pretty clearly taunted him, he made sure he found blount, tapped him on the shoulder, said something to him and then smiled as he turned away before getting the smile knocked off his face.

Blount came out and said before the BSU game that Oregon was out for revenge after last years loss so im sure he was being sought after...

That's the thing though. Who knows what was really said tbh? He could have just tapped him on the shoulder and said "good game" for all we know. Do I think that's what he said? well.... :biggrin2:

 

[mark4tide]

He was punished for what he did and now he gets a chance to make up for that mistake. I'm glad I have been given second chances for stupid things that I have done in the past. Why should he be any different?

 

[bamaslaw]

My biggest problem with this is the way Kelly handled it. I like the fact that he's earned his way back and done the right things to be on the team. That said, Chip Kelly should have established a road map once this thing happened. He should have said he was suspended indefinitely until xyz are done and Blount has turned a corner and we'll make a decision after that.

 

[CapstoneTider]

I agree, may aswell reinstate him.

I had a friend in College that was caught selling something he shouldn't have been, and because of a mandatory minimum in place at the time, and the amount of time it took the chemical to come back from the state lab, he spent the better part of three years believing he was going to jail, first time offender of anything, for five years. Least to say, as a good kid who made a mistake, he was scared straight thinking about his ruined life for an extended amount of time.

Luck has it, in those three years they changed the mandatory minimum and he did not go to jail when court finally came around and he pled guilty. He went from a flunky student to the dean's list, gave up drinking and smoking and is now a pharmacist of all things in Memphis, and has been for 17 years now. I talked to him about 2 years ago, and he told me that he thought about jail and wrecking his life everyday from the first second he awoke in the morning until he went to bed. He was that scared.

To Blount, maybe just believing that he blew his life for the months he thought he would never play college ball again was enough of a wake-up call without actually having to follow through with the punishment.

With all that said, I believe they did the right thing in the reinstatement, but I would put him on a very short leash in the NFL and this should be conveyed from the git go.