October 10, 2014
The field stood empty, (click here) framed by barren stands and an open parking lot at Sayreville War Memorial High School on Friday, the first night since the season was canceled amid allegations of a hazing ritual that involved digital penetration.
The field stood empty, (click here) framed by barren stands and an open parking lot at Sayreville War Memorial High School on Friday, the first night since the season was canceled amid allegations of a hazing ritual that involved digital penetration.
It was supposed to be the night of the homecoming game, but instead the people of Sayreville settled into the lonely quiet of a fall without football.
“Football is big in this town,” Tommy Nagle, owner of a hot dog stand on Main Street and caretaker of a blue-and-white Sayreville Football billboard on the same lot, said earlier Friday before the arrests of six juveniles accused of taking part in the hazing. “Even now I feel lousy because there’s no game tonight.”...
The majority of the team is not at fault. While the police and detectives have to get to the bottom of this, the team should not suffer the punishment of the rapists. The rapists promised to ruin the season and careers of the team if they were exposed. Well, guess what, they were rights. As soon as they are exposed everyone is made to suffer. This is not the way it should be. The team members, coaches and administrators completely innocent of participation, cover up or negligence should be out on the field while those most guilty are expelled.
There are going to be legal consequences as well, but, the young men that truly had no part or would not have any part in this should be playing and attempting to win their division.
The dream should still be theirs.
October 11, 2014
The Front Seven salutes the blood moon.
1. New: No. 6 Mississippi State (click here) doesn't get long to enjoy yet another historic victory. The program so often overshadowed by its more accomplished SEC opponents has to prove itself yet again as No. 2 Auburn comes to Starkville (3:30 ET Saturday, CBS). The Tigers looked the part of a national championship contender while dismantling LSU last week, but the Bulldogs' more polished offense under the direction of QB Dak Prescott, a breakout Heisman candidate, should prove harder to shut down....
The majority of the team is not at fault. While the police and detectives have to get to the bottom of this, the team should not suffer the punishment of the rapists. The rapists promised to ruin the season and careers of the team if they were exposed. Well, guess what, they were rights. As soon as they are exposed everyone is made to suffer. This is not the way it should be. The team members, coaches and administrators completely innocent of participation, cover up or negligence should be out on the field while those most guilty are expelled.
There are going to be legal consequences as well, but, the young men that truly had no part or would not have any part in this should be playing and attempting to win their division.
The dream should still be theirs.
October 11, 2014
The Front Seven salutes the blood moon.
1. New: No. 6 Mississippi State (click here) doesn't get long to enjoy yet another historic victory. The program so often overshadowed by its more accomplished SEC opponents has to prove itself yet again as No. 2 Auburn comes to Starkville (3:30 ET Saturday, CBS). The Tigers looked the part of a national championship contender while dismantling LSU last week, but the Bulldogs' more polished offense under the direction of QB Dak Prescott, a breakout Heisman candidate, should prove harder to shut down....
