JD Quinn: "All I did is take money"
"All I did was take cash," Quinn said. "I didn't break any laws and I get kicked off the team, but there's people on the team that are breaking laws and failing drug tests and stuff like that, and there's nobody getting kicked off the team for that type of stuff."
Quinn declined to provide details of his allegations about other players, but said it was not necessarily about players on the OU team.
"I was just saying around the country. I wasn't saying it in the context of Oklahoma. There's just people I've heard of doing things."
"I didn't hurt anybody," he said during a 23-minute telephone interview Monday, during which he expressed both remorse and bitterness. "I don't understand why the punishment was so harsh."
In a second interview Tuesday, Quinn said "All I did was take money from somebody that wanted to give it, but I didn't hurt anybody or anything like that. People have gotten second chances for worse things."
With all the stories like this, you really have to wonder if a good portion of it is true. Even so, getting 8k for doing nothing should have some negative impact your eligibility. The punishment may be a little harsh but I, for one, believe that it wasn't excessive. On the other hand, I think him losing a year of eligibility and being allowed to stay on OU would've sufficed as well.
Hauck's inability to handle the media will likely keep him from being the No.1 pick for any respectable IA program. Can you imagine the way a major metro newspaper would respond the first time Bobby announced he'd no longer be discussing injured players for the rest of the season, only to be followed up a few days later by the U's legal counsel issuing an opinion that HIPAA prevented the coach from discussing injuires that other teams commonly report on?
Kris Atterbury, the former Clear Channel radio announcer for MSU sports, told me that when UM sent him the media packet for Griz-Cat football last year, Hauck listed all his starters as injured and all his second stringers as "doubtful."
Maybe in Missoula it doesn't matter how a coach comes off, but in the big time where this coach reportedly aspires to belong, those antics reflect badly on the university and make a coach look like the GW Bush of college athletics.
Maybe "The Decider" of Griz sports can find it inside himself to stop being such an ass.
Great comment.
Hauck's lack of cooperation with the media has gotten a little out of hand. It will be very interesting to see — if he does land a big-time job — how he handles the media. Imagine him trying to deal with reporters in a place like Seattle or Boulder...
"What, what do you mean you're just not going to talk to us?"