Godfrey dismissed from team
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We have no idea how many times Calvin was in trouble. I think there's a shot we didn't hear about the first time he got in trouble with drugs and the suspension was the second time.
I'm also guessing that since Railey just got charged with fighting in April and not some alcohol related offense, he didn't get booted off.
What people forget is that, like posted earlier in this thread, Iowa State tests for recreational drugs. Your first failure gets a warning, your second garners 10% of the season being a suspension (think Godfrey's suspension last season), and your third is automatic dismissal. Fred might not even have had a choice in the whole situation.
Next man in, doesn't have the same ring to it, when you are one of the worst major programs in the country and the results to back it up.
EAXACTLY! IT WAS HIS THIRD OFFENSE!!
And people debating the legality here are missing the point. At the current time, weed is illegal. It is tested for, and it is written in the rules as a banned substance. Those are the rules that a college athlete must follow. They know this when they come in. They know this when they play. Godfrey failed to follow the rules not once, not twice but three times. Because he was an idiot, he was kicked off the team.
It doesn't matter if weed isn't as harmful as alcohol. It doesn't matter if it doesn't cause lung cancer, etc, etc, etc. Right now, it is a rule regulated by the NCAA. Therefore, student athletes must abide or they don't play.
Godfrey obviously loved his weed more than basketball.
Al, you always make too much sense. I agree with you 100%. Speeding is illegal too and I would say everyone on here does it, even those on their high horses.
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- Godfrey smoked something that is banned by the NCAA, Big 12 and ISU.
- It wasn't really Fred's decision as it was Godfrey's thrid strike
- This isn't Fred making a decision. This is Fred following ISU protocol.
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it is very easy...The NCAA/BCS/Big 12/ISU bans and tests for certain drugs...steroids, perforomance enhancers, MARIJUANA, etc. They have a policy where your first time getting caught leads to a warning. Second offense leads to suspension. third offense leads you out the door. Marijuana is one of those drugs, alcohol is not.
And who know, alcohol might be one but Riley has only had two run ins. Godfrey has had three
And when you get caught speeding there is a penalty. Calving got caught speeding 3 times and lost his license.
That was an analogy, for those that are high.
Also, one of Railey's run-ins was a disorderly conduct, not an alcohol charge. I don't believe alcohol is on the 3-strikes list anyway.
You need to work on your reading comprehension. You completely missed the point, and your response has absoluteley nothing to do with my post or your own original post that I responded to.
This board is comedy. A coach gets arrested for a OWI after being twice over the limit and people say oh it's not big deal, Godfrey gets kicked off for weed, and now people say it should be legal anyway. I really think if a Cyclone got arrested for murder there would be a portion of the people on here defending him and telling people criticizing him to get off their high horse.
That's quite a jump, from the smoking of a plant to killing another human being. Comparing the two (or even DUI which is obviously much worse) is beyond silly.
Godfrey was dumb, got busted multiple times, and deserves the punishment he gets. He's an idiot, no doubt about it. But his actions certainly don't make him a bad person, just a dumb one for getting caught multiple times.
I thought the 3rd time was an automatic one-year suspension, rather than automatic dismissal? I might have heard wrong.
Either way, Fred's hand was forced here, this is not a case of him "sending a message" or being overly harsh in his punishment of Godfrey. He wasn't left with much of a choice, if your busted 3 times in your freshman year, its going to be pretty hard to make it through the next 3 without incident. Sucks though to lose a good big man.
It's sad to see all the people who don't think people should be responsible for their actions. Whether you like the rules or laws or not, these players know them and agreed to abide by them as a condition of their scholarship. You think Fred & Co. want to do this? We all have choices and CG unfortunately made the same poor choice a few times.
