The pros are that they can directly help your football team, because they fill a need you have. However, we’ve signed the maximum number of players we could sign. It’s unlikely we would use a scholarship on a player with just one year of eligibility. But if the player were willing to join the team as a non-scholarship player, we would bring them in on an official visit, get to know the young man and put him in front of our team.

That sounds like it will end about as well as Cam Newton getting a summer job at Best Buy.

What’s really sad is that the author of that post can’t distinguish between “people who steal laptops” and “black people”.

I wouldn’t want Masoli on a team I was cheering for because I’d rather have guys who don’t steal things. It’s not a “race” thing, unless you’re going to equate black people with thieves, which seems to be the opposite of “not racist”.

i wouldn’t want him on my team. Evidently what he did at Oregon was bad enough to be kicked off the team. If Ole Miss is desperate enough to take a guy who could just as easily screw them by doing something just as stupid again, then they can have him.

As a Bama fan, i thank my lucky stars that our program doesn’t feel the need to pick up players with his kind of past. Im not saying he some terrible person, but his past is bad enough for me to want him as far away from our program as possible.

ANd btw, im not that familiar with his dismissal, why doesn’t he have to sit out a year? Or does he?

I kinda feel the need to stick up for what I wrote.

Let me try to keep this brief: the word “thug” can be used in a non-racist sentiment. You can easily call a white guy a thug. However, we all know that when old, white, Southerners say “thug” they’re thinking, 90% of the time, “I wanna say the N-word but cant.” Call me silly or paranoid all you want, but the word is a loaded term filled with hidden connotation.

To put it differently, if Greg McElroy had been convicted of stealing a laptop before getting caught with some weed in his car, would many of the people calling Jeremiah Masoli a “thug” do the same for McElroy? I know it’s all conjecture, but I posit that they wouldn’t.