Only in Steubenville...smh

• sportchampps

  I guess Vermillion also allowed a rapist to play football for them so it's not just Steubenville
• Automatik

  

  Valley newsman Mike Anthony with a tweet he'll surely regret.
  
  https://twitter.com/MAnthonyWTRF/status/498843376373215233
• Tiernan

  He probably grew up there so he's an idiot...Journalism degree from Wheeling State.
• vball10set

  lol, only in Steuby...an Ohio probation officer wearing a WVU hat...
  
  http://www.wtrf.com/story/26248983/teen-convicted-in-steubenville-rape-back-on-football-roster#.U-k6WfWB8Fc.twitter
• Automatik

  

  The place is beyond fucked.
  
  Perfect example of why I say "Eastern Ohio" when asked where I'm from. No more "near Steubenville." :laugh:
• QuakerOats

  IggyPride00;1643267 wrote:The OHSAA should pass a rule barring convicted rapists from participating in athletics. The people of Steubenville clearly can't police themselves, so someone needs to do it for them.
  
  This is grotesque even for a group of people that we're already considered neanderthals to begin with.

  
  
  It's ok; he's black.
• vball10set

  QuakerOats;1643428 wrote:It's ok; he's black.

  Iggy is?
• QuakerOats

  Maybe OHSAA could at least have the thug report to the opposing sideline to register with them as a sex offender.
• Belly35

  

  Who are you guys blaming for this. The coach, school, player, community ???? ... lets be real
  The kid was convicted, served time (minus 2 months) required to register every 6 months per the count and judge sentence.
  
  Who to blame for this, let start with the guy who sign off on getting this kid out 2 months early, who did that?
  Lets talk about a Liberal court system, lawyer and judge wanting to do what right but missed the target of common sense.
  
  Blame the people and yourself who let Lawyers, Judges and Government System that so diluted our court system with skewed laws, over regulation and conflicting legal verbiage they don’t understand.
  
  This kid is out playing ball because the system tht protects the criminal not the victim or the community that was violated … Perfect example of multiple DUI, Felons, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence offender out on the street, just waiting to do their deed again at tax payer, victim, family and innocent citizen expense.
• Automatik

  

  I actually have more of an issue with Reno still being the coach.
• thavoice

  Belly35;1643457 wrote:Who are you guys blaming for this. The coach, school, player, community ???? ... lets be real
  The kid was convicted, served time (minus 2 months) required to register every 6 months per the count and judge sentence.
  
  Who to blame for this, let start with the guy who sign off on getting this kid out 2 months early, who did that?
  Lets talk about a Liberal court system, lawyer and judge wanting to do what right but missed the target of common sense.
  
  Blame the people and yourself who let Lawyers, Judges and Government System that so diluted our court system with skewed laws, over regulation and conflicting legal verbiage they don’t understand.
  
  This kid is out playing ball because the system tht protects the criminal not the victim or the community that was violated … Perfect example of multiple DUI, Felons, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence offender out on the street, just waiting to do their deed again at tax payer, victim, family and innocent citizen expense.

  In Kenton a few years ago many people blamed the coach, AD, Superintendant and also the judge when a few players were convicted of putting a deer stand in the middle of the road and severly injuring 2 kids in a car wreck. The judge sentenced them to whatever it was and said 'to be served after football season' that really split the community. I know for at least 1 game they had sheriff escort the visiting team into town because of rumors that mad citizens in the town would block the bus from coming to protest the kids being allowed to play.
  
  Alot of people to blame for this
• sherm03

  

  Automatik;1643458 wrote:I actually have more of an issue with Reno still being the coach.

  This!
• Heretic

  

  Automatik;1643458 wrote:I actually have more of an issue with Reno still being the coach.

  Yeah, it's all well and good to be like Belly and try to turn this into a politard "lib-rull court system" bullshit session, but the simple truth is that this is a pure "hi skoo futbawl is the only thing we have and nothin's gonna ruin it" deal. Keep the head coach who has been the man at the top while all of this went down, give a light penalty to at least one of the players involved and do everything possible to cover things up so that it took Anonymous and the attorney general's office just to get ANYTHING to happen.
  
  There's no wide-ranging moral to the story or huge governmental life lesson -- this is a pathetic, corrupt town trying to hang on to the one thing it's good at regardless of what the cost may be. All in the name of HI SKOO FUTBAWL.
• thavoice

  Automatik;1643458 wrote:I actually have more of an issue with Reno still being the coach.

  Agreed. He should have been ousted for covering it up and shit.
• sleeper

  

  A few years from now this guy will steal some candy from a store, get into a scuffle with a police officer and end up shot dead. The community will start a riot claiming that the boy is nothing more than a sweet little angel since he was about to start community college and the cop only shot him because he was black. Rinse and repeat.
• TedSheckler

  

  sleeper;1643466 wrote:A few years from now this guy will steal some candy from a store, get into a scuffle with a police officer and end up shot dead. The community will start a riot claiming that the boy is nothing more than a sweet little angel since he was about to start community college and the cop only shot him because he was black. Rinse and repeat.

  Excited for that day. That's the day we all get free shit!
• Heretic

  

  TedSheckler;1643470 wrote:Excited for that day. That's the day we all get free shit!

  Rioting in Steubenville means the free stuff = all-you-can-steal at a never-ending series of dollar stores that probably already have been picked over by the river trash via shoplifting for stuff to barter for meth on a daily basis.
• vball10set

  sleeper;1643466 wrote:A few years from now this guy will steal some candy from a store, get into a scuffle with a police officer and end up shot dead. The community will start a riot claiming that the boy is nothing more than a sweet little angel since he was about to start community college and the cop only shot him because he was black. Rinse and repeat.

  lol, now this is funny...reps
• queencitybuckeye

  Saw this on another site so take it for what it's worth. The claim is that the scumbag has been named a team captain.
• vball10set

  queencitybuckeye;1643487 wrote:Saw this on another site so take it for what it's worth. The claim is that the scumbag has been named a team captain.

  
  ...and this surprises anyone how?!?
• Al Bundy

  It is sad, but it is not surprising. This is the same region that worships an NFL QB that is a serial rapist.
• Mulva

  

  I agree with belly, except for the last paragraph. Blame should go to the courts.
  
  Kid "paid his debt" as determined by the "justice" system. If you want to argue that he should still be in jail I wouldn't disagree, but once a sentence is over I believe it should be over.
• QuakerOats

  The team can still have its own team rules, which could preclude him and other team rule-breakers from playing.
• queencitybuckeye

  Mulva;1643496 wrote:I agree with belly, except for the last paragraph. Blame should go to the courts.
  
  Kid "paid his debt" as determined by the "justice" system. If you want to argue that he should still be in jail I wouldn't disagree, but once a sentence is over I believe it should be over.

  Then he should not have to check in on a periodic basis as a registered sex offender?
  
  His sentence is not over, he's just no longer in jail.
• Heretic

  

  QuakerOats;1643497 wrote:The team can still have its own team rules, which could preclude him and other team rule-breakers from playing.

  I know when I grew up, I was at least raised in a "sports are a privilege, not a right" household, where my participation was permitted based on me doing things like maintain good grades, do chores and such around the house and not getting into trouble.
  
  Apparently, the Steubtards are just a wee bit different as far as that goes.