For violations of team rules? What the…I give up.
University of North Carolina head coach Butch Davis has suspended senior defensive tackle Marvin Austin indefinitely.
“This decision is not a result of the ongoing NCAA review,” says Davis. “Marvin has violated team rules and has neglected his responsibilities to the team.”
Austin will not play Saturday vs. LSU.
You want my honest take? I have no freaking idea what this means. Seriously. We hear the “violated team rules” reason all the time but I have no clue what constitutes “neglecting his responsibilities to the team.” If anyone has a guess, feel free to toss it out there because I am having trouble coming up with even something wildly speculative.
UPDATE: Mark Armstrong at WTVD has tweeted the following about the Austin suspension:
Source tells me suspension is partially related to facebook post, but Austin has also been skipping classes, dogging it in practice cont’d
If that is true and it is likely the NCAA is going to suspend him anyway, I am not sure why he is still on the team other than it makes UNC appear to be passing judgment prematurely.
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It should be noted this is the second sudden move UNC has made today. This morning UNC went all Soup Nazi on the media by shutting down access to players and coaches which included canceling already scheduled interviews. I am going to go out on a limb here and say the isolation from the media is related to the Austin suspension announcement. I know, really daring risk I am taking there. For players and coaches to talk to the media then have this news breaks means said interviews are worthless and it looks like UNC was holding out. The media access decision is also likely related to Robert Quinn and Kendric Burney tap dancing their way through a couple of interviews yesterday. The Quinn interview was described as painful/awkward. Burney fared much better according the message boards. Still, it is probably not a good idea to keep trotting these guys out there if they do not even know whether they will play vs LSU much less answer any investigation questions.
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I was pretty shocked by the Facebook post yesterday. I imagine Butch would’ve told them not to comment on the investigation & the fact that Marvin gives the bird to his haters on a social network when that’s where the snowball started rolling in the 1st place really ticked Coach off. His “responsibility to the team” that he “neglected” to do was just be quiet. I guess if he was really dogging it in practice that just added to Butch’s frustration. Either that, or Marvin just felt sorry for that young scout team O lineman 3-pointed across from him. Regardless, I’d like to jerk Marvin up by his dreads & give him a good talkin to…if I was a 7-ft cyborg, that is. Anyway, I’m ready to cheer on a bunch of highly motivated, non-cheatin Heels that come outta that tunnel Saturday!
I think some good music is in order until this ends:
Duane Allman: Anthology
Goin Down Slow feature track
This entire album is a peach with Aretha Franklin/The Weight and Clarence Carter/The Road of Love as little extra bits of joy.
When I feed a jukebox I like to get some value as well, I’m that guy, maybe Live at Filmore East, Mountain Jam (33 minutes). Meddle, Echoes (23 minutes). Live the long play dream.
Thanks for coming out, hope you enjoyed the show.
Butch Davis Live is on the air right now!
BD said the same thing that the Old Ball Sack said about Weslye Saunders. In this situation, I really don’t think either coach could say anything else.
They can’t say, “well, player x is suspended because he violated NCAA rules”. Number one, it would certainly be an admission of guilt and number two, it would be talking about the investigation.
However, I would think that violating NCAA rules would be a violation of team rules, so that’s what it said prior to the NCAA final statement.
^^very much thank you!
recording quality sucked but High Falls too….maybe a little Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.
I have seen UNC operate in this area before. No prisoners will be taken. Let’s see what happens….
At least this distraction is gone.
BBDL, first time I’ve heard “Going Down Slow” and I’m an instant fan. Excellent choice — I needed it for the past hoops season.
Larry and 52bgJ – Love some Traffic and high heeled boys has a nice crisp studio sound that is generally lost in their albums. Duane Allman was amazing and he made the whole thing work, after he died they just lived the next 30 years on his material.
Glad you enjoyed Goin’ Down Slow, it’s a really good song for this situation. Duane did lots of studio work hence the other artists on his albums. A friend of mine made it his divorce anthem.