Oklahoma Suspends Freshman RB Joe Mixon for 2014 Season

[primal defense]

Good, they need to do the same with DBG.

Oklahoma suspends freshman RB Joe Mixon for 2014 season

Oklahoma has decided to suspend freshman running back Joe Mixon for the entire 2014 season after an offseason incident resulted in assault allegations and one misdemeanor for the former 5-star prospect.

According to a statement released by the school, university president David Boren "accepted the recommendation" of athletic director Joe Castiglione and head coach Bob Stoops to remove Mixon from the roster and exclude him from all team activities for the entire season.

"As the university has demonstrated in the past, we are committed to winning the right way," Castiglione and Stoops said in a joint statement. "As an example to others, OU sets the highest possible standards for its student athletes, coaches and staff."

"With appropriate conditions," Mixon will be allowed to continue as an OU student and be eligible for financial aid.

On Friday, Mixon was charged with one misdemeanor count of an act resulting in gross injury for his role in an altercation with another OU student in July. According to the affidavit of probable cause, the freshman running back and Amelia Rae Molitor, 20, were engaged in a verbal and physical altercation at Pickelman's Gourmet Cafe in Norman.

Mixon pleaded not guilty to the charge on Monday and is expected back in court on Sept. 23.

Mixon did not report to camp with the rest of the Sooners due to an ongoing investigation regarding the incident. Mixon was set to compete for snaps in a talented backfield with Keith Ford and Alex Ross.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24666668/oklahoma-suspends-freshman-rb-joe-mixon-for-2014-season

 

[CCausey11]

Good, they need to do the same with DBG.

Oklahoma suspends freshman RB Joe Mixon for 2014 season

Oklahoma has decided to suspend freshman running back Joe Mixon for the entire 2014 season after an offseason incident resulted in assault allegations and one misdemeanor for the former 5-star prospect.

According to a statement released by the school, university president David Boren "accepted the recommendation" of athletic director Joe Castiglione and head coach Bob Stoops to remove Mixon from the roster and exclude him from all team activities for the entire season.

"As the university has demonstrated in the past, we are committed to winning the right way," Castiglione and Stoops said in a joint statement. "As an example to others, OU sets the highest possible standards for its student athletes, coaches and staff."

"With appropriate conditions," Mixon will be allowed to continue as an OU student and be eligible for financial aid.

On Friday, Mixon was charged with one misdemeanor count of an act resulting in gross injury for his role in an altercation with another OU student in July. According to the affidavit of probable cause, the freshman running back and Amelia Rae Molitor, 20, were engaged in a verbal and physical altercation at Pickelman's Gourmet Cafe in Norman.

Mixon pleaded not guilty to the charge on Monday and is expected back in court on Sept. 23.

Mixon did not report to camp with the rest of the Sooners due to an ongoing investigation regarding the incident. Mixon was set to compete for snaps in a talented backfield with Keith Ford and Alex Ross.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24666668/oklahoma-suspends-freshman-rb-joe-mixon-for-2014-season

You're right about DGB, but it ain't gonna happen.   He hasn't committed a crime in Norman that we know of yet...

 

[utisdabomb12]

Lol, it's like a redshirt. If they were committed to winning the right way they would have booted him from the team. Wouldn't surprise me if Mixon transfers though. 

 

[streettopeschel]

Good, they need to do the same with DBG.

Oklahoma suspends freshman RB Joe Mixon for 2014 season

Oklahoma has decided to suspend freshman running back Joe Mixon for the entire 2014 season after an offseason incident resulted in assault allegations and one misdemeanor for the former 5-star prospect.

According to a statement released by the school, university president David Boren "accepted the recommendation" of athletic director Joe Castiglione and head coach Bob Stoops to remove Mixon from the roster and exclude him from all team activities for the entire season.

"As the university has demonstrated in the past, we are committed to winning the right way," Castiglione and Stoops said in a joint statement. "As an example to others, OU sets the highest possible standards for its student athletes, coaches and staff."

"With appropriate conditions," Mixon will be allowed to continue as an OU student and be eligible for financial aid.

On Friday, Mixon was charged with one misdemeanor count of an act resulting in gross injury for his role in an altercation with another OU student in July. According to the affidavit of probable cause, the freshman running back and Amelia Rae Molitor, 20, were engaged in a verbal and physical altercation at Pickelman's Gourmet Cafe in Norman.

Mixon pleaded not guilty to the charge on Monday and is expected back in court on Sept. 23.

Mixon did not report to camp with the rest of the Sooners due to an ongoing investigation regarding the incident. Mixon was set to compete for snaps in a talented backfield with Keith Ford and Alex Ross.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24666668/oklahoma-suspends-freshman-rb-joe-mixon-for-2014-season

I didn't know Castiglione had such a good sense of humor.

 

[primal defense]

It looks like OU has two different policies. If one of your football players hits an Oklahoma woman, then you sit out a year. However, if you smack a Missouri woman no problem. Come on down and helps us beat Texas.

 

[Juan]

this is Mixon ....

— Twitter API (@twitterapi) November 7, 2011

 

[primal defense]

From Tulsa World, don't read on a full stomach. You might puke.

John E. Hoover: Norman as a safe haven part of Bob Stoops' legacy

Bob Stoops used to say it all the time.

“We can’t make a trade. There’s no free agents in college football. The guys we’ve got are the guys we have to play.â€

Maybe somewhere along the line, Stoops gave himself an idea.

There are, of course, still no trades allowed in college football.

And it’s not exactly free agency like the National Football League. But relaxed transfer restrictions and liberal applications of eligibility waivers apparently have caused players deposed at other programs to take a second look at Oklahoma.

Actually, most of the players in this discussion will be redshirted and can’t even play this season — and this is a really important season for Stoops’ legacy and the OU program, with a run into the new College Football Playoff and a possible shot at, finally, another national championship at stake.

But Stoops seems to have solidified his reputation as a kind of collegiate Al Davis, establishing a second-chance mentality at one of the game’s proudest programs, allowing castoffs and malcontents from other teams to find safe haven in Norman.

OK, a couple of clarifications might be in order.

First, “malcontent†connotes an unnecessarily dark image, but its definition — “not satisfied or content with current conditions; dissatisfied with the existing system†— applies here, even to quarterback Baker Mayfield, who transferred to OU from Texas Tech and is awaiting word on his NCAA appeal to waive the transfer rule that he must sit out this season.

Simply put, Mayfield was unhappy when Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury declined to put him on scholarship even though he had a very good freshman season.

Second, Davis built the Oakland Raiders into one of the NFL’s best franchises in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s by taking on players other teams no longer wanted. Sometimes it was a guy like quarterback Jim Plunkett, who just never produced at New England or San Francisco and simply needed a fresh start.

But more frequently, certainly more famously, it was a guy like defensive end John Matuszak, who caused trouble for teams like Houston and Kansas City before he found a home in Davis’ halfway house.

Developments in Norman this past offseason and even over the weekend illustrate similarities between the Sooners and Raiders, although Davis’ reputation as a maverick preceded him, and his willingness to overlook troublemakers and knuckleheads for the sake of football results — remember “Just Win, Baby� — came to overshadow other qualities that endeared him to his players and coaches and ultimately got him elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Stoops isn’t Al Davis. Stoops won’t succumb to a win-at-all-costs mentality. Integrity and reputation and public image are still high priorities for him. And certainly, Stoops should be applauded for providing safe haven for guys who have done nothing wrong, like Mayfield, and just want a chance to play.

Still, the similarities can’t be ignored.

Davis made his reputation providing safe haven to outlaws. Rivals might suggest some of Stoops’ projects are, in one form or another, outlaws.

Wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham had two marijuana-related incidents at Missouri before he was accused of forcing his way into an apartment and knocking a woman down some stairs. That third strike got him kicked out of Mizzou, and he transferred to OU.

Dalton Rodgriguez, an offensive line recruit who committed to OU at Union High School before flipping and playing defensive line during his freshman season at the University of Tulsa, was dismissed from TU for violation of team rules and has enrolled (and will walk on) at OU.

Debate the merits of calling Green-Beckham and Rodriguez outlaws or castoffs all you want. Both players obviously had extensive recruiting relationships with Stoops and the OU staff before they signed elsewhere, so coaches in Norman feel good enough about their character to reach out.

Critics might say Stoops has gone rogue, but the feeling here is that his unparalleled success in Norman — he is the program’s all-time leader in career victories and hasn’t had anything close to a losing season in 15 years — simply has made him more comfortable with giving kids second chances than he used to be.

Who among us couldn’t have used such leniency in our youth? Rodriguez announced on Twitter he was “blessed with a new opportunity†at OU. That should be cause for celebration, regardless of one’s rooting interests.

Even as recently as late Sunday night, one report had Nebraska defensive tackle Aaron Curry deciding to transfer to OU, although additional reports Monday morning cited Curry’s father, former OU basketball player Aaron Curry Sr., said his son would not be a Sooner because OU had no scholarships available.

There is no indication that Curry was discontent in Lincoln, only that he wanted to be closer to his home near Fort Worth and might have been displaced in the Huskers’ starting lineup.

Although Curry seems to have decided otherwise, if he had chosen OU, that would have given the Sooners four Division I transfers — from rivals Texas Tech, Missouri, Tulsa and Nebraska — in one offseason.

Unprecedented.

Maybe he once believed such a thing was not possible, but, somewhere between fulfilling one guy’s dream and bailing another guy out of trouble, Stoops clearly has cracked the code for college football free agency.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportshomepage1/norman-as-a-safe-haven-part-of-bob-stoops-legacy/article_11cfae36-8296-5f9a-84e6-7447e26d38df.html

 

[Juan]

Okie media got to see the Mixon tape

"OU football: Joe Mixon tape shows freshman running back punch female after she pushed, slapped him"

http://newsok.com/ou-football-joe-mixon-tape-shows-freshman-running-back-punch-female-after-she-pushed-slapped-him/article/5338684

 

[Juan]

Russell also gone

— Twitter API (@twitterapi) November 7, 2011