UCONN MEN: Jamal Coombs-McDaniel arrested on drug charge
http://www.newhavenregister.com/articles/2011/04/23/sports/doc4db1af3d34890291146406.txt
Not to worry--Calhoun will keep him eligible--that is the way the game is played today.
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on April 23, 2011, 08:05:33 AM
UCONN MEN: Jamal Coombs-McDaniel arrested on drug charge
http://www.newhavenregister.com/articles/2011/04/23/sports/doc4db1af3d34890291146406.txt
The article says pot and you say drug....which is it?
Quote from: willie warrior on April 23, 2011, 08:15:16 AM
Not to worry--Calhoun will keep him eligible--that is the way the game is played today.
As if we have room to talk right now.
I just want to know if BJ's were involved.
Dude had 5.6 grams of pot and a "marijuana grinding machine" along with cigars.
3 dudes with less than a quarter of pot (along with other things that aren't at all illegal) and the justice department is taking their time to prosecute the guy? Like, with bail and everything?!
What a joke.
does anyone know what a "narcotics complaint" is?
Is that like someone down the hall complained it smelled like weed?
also, I'm always confused by the fact that the traditional punishment for failed drug tests seems to be suspension from the team which according to the article means suspension from "using the team's locker room, weight room, etc. during the offseason"
How does that help the situation at all? I understand punishment in terms of suspending from games, starts, whatever. But I don't get suspensions from the team. How is it going to help to take a guy with either a) a penchant for drugs or b) a drug problem (all depending on how you see it and what the drug is) and remove him from some of the only structure or support network in his life?
Quote from: MUBurrow on April 23, 2011, 09:51:45 AM
does anyone know what a "narcotics complaint" is?
Is that like someone down the hall complained it smelled like weed?
Cannabis is legally a narcotic even though it isn't one medically. It's classified as Schedule 1, which means it's supposedly as dangerous as Heroin :P
Anyone else find this part interesting ...
Spring Weekend festivities began Thursday night at UConn, and police reported making 11 arrests as of Friday evening.
If I'm reading this correctly, UConn has a "Spring Weekend Festivities" over the long Easter weekend. It started last Thursday night and as of Friday evening the Uconn police tallied 11 arrests, and I'm guessing that Coombs-McDaniel and his two accomplishes are among the 11.
Again, the article reads in a way that 11 arrests in the first 24 hours of Spring Weekend Festivities is a typical ho-hum day at Uconn. Correct me if I'm wrong about this?
If I am correct, it sounds line Uconn is out of control. Have they considered the national guard to patrol their campus?
Not sure about the uconn campus itself but Hartford is the worst city I have ever been to....Toledo included.
Quote from: Skatastrophy on April 23, 2011, 09:32:17 AM
Dude had 5.6 grams of pot and a "marijuana grinding machine" along with cigars.
3 dudes with less than a quarter of pot (along with other things that aren't at all illegal) and the justice department is taking their time to prosecute the guy? Like, with bail and everything?!
What a joke.
To put 5.6 grams in perspective...if you're in possession of 30 grams or less of marijuana in IL it's a misdemeanor. So yes, this is a joke. The grinding machine and cigar papers shouldn't bolster the charges unless smoking blunts as opposed to bowls is a more serious offense.
Quote from: esotericmindguy on April 24, 2011, 08:19:19 AM
Not sure about the uconn campus itself but Hartford is the worst city I have ever been to....Toledo included.
Doesn't seem to affect their landing studs for basketball. That is one of the excuses used for not being able to recruit to Milwaukee.
Well done, willie. Two threads where you managed to rip on Buzz from an angle I didn't see coming.
Quote from: willie warrior on April 24, 2011, 12:17:51 PM
Doesn't seem to affect their landing studs for basketball. That is one of the excuses used for not being able to recruit to Milwaukee.
Except UConn is 25 miles from Hartford.
Nice try, though.
Quote from: tower912 on April 24, 2011, 01:06:31 PM
Well done, willie. Two threads where you managed to rip on Buzz from an angle I didn't see coming.
Don't know how this is a rip on Buzz. People have been using this excuse for 30 years now.
Quote from: Pakuni on April 24, 2011, 01:15:56 PM
Except UConn is 25 miles from Hartford.
Nice try, though.
Really? They do play their games at the XL center in downtown Hartford....
Quote from: esotericmindguy on April 24, 2011, 11:28:57 PM
Really? They do play their games at the XL center in downtown Hartford....
Yeah, UCONN is in Storrs, Con
http://www.uconn.edu/
the XL center is about 25 miles/ 35 min drive from UCONN's campus
Quote from: AnotherMU84 on April 24, 2011, 08:11:42 AM
Anyone else find this part interesting ...
Spring Weekend festivities began Thursday night at UConn, and police reported making 11 arrests as of Friday evening.
If I'm reading this correctly, UConn has a "Spring Weekend Festivities" over the long Easter weekend. It started last Thursday night and as of Friday evening the Uconn police tallied 11 arrests, and I'm guessing that Coombs-McDaniel and his two accomplishes are among the 11.
Again, the article reads in a way that 11 arrests in the first 24 hours of Spring Weekend Festivities is a typical ho-hum day at Uconn. Correct me if I'm wrong about this?
If I am correct, it sounds line Uconn is out of control. Have they considered the national guard to patrol their campus?
Early 90s post-Marquette graduation I spent a few spring weekends visiting friends at UConn. It was pretty wild. Lately, they had a run of bad incidents over spring weekend. People being stabbed. Someone being hit by a car. And there are always a ton of arrests. The problem is most of the incidents are caused by non-UConn students. It was just coincidental it happened this year over Easter weekend. I believe because it was Easter weekend they had no "official" spring weekend events with the hope that many students would go home for the holiday. At the end of each spring weekend day everyone ends up in a giant wild tailgate party in a parking lot called X-Lot. Apparently it is a privately owned & controlled parking lot and the university is limited in what it can dis-allow there.
In CT for Easter at the 'laws'
Major crack down on the UConn campus going on.....
They arrested another 70ish kids this weekend also.....
Pot, under-age drinking, loitering, et al....General rowdiness etc....