Sounds like Jason Washington got screwed
Jason Washington has been kicked off the University of Montana football team and it's sound like fairness and reason weren't really an issue.
From the Missoulian:
All of this sounds a bit like that fishy Craig Chambers suspension. From what I've seen, a Griz football player is required to abide by whatever a coach says, completely and silently, no matter how ridiculous or unfair the actions may be. If they don't, they're off the team.
I remember waiting for a spring semester Anthropology class in the Gallagher Business Building lobby when Hauck strutted into the building wearing some goofy looking cowboy boots and jeans that were just a bit too tight.
"Jason Washington, just the man I was looking for."
It's odd seeing this pan out in the news a couple months later. It just goes to show how high the barbed fence is around the Griz football program.
From the Missoulian:
“The only reason I was kicked off the team was - and I quote Bobby's word - I was ‘defiant,' ” Washington said. “I was like, ‘Defiant? What's your definition of defiant?'Hauck refuses to comment on any disciplinary actions so that's all we have. The head coach denies going over that eight hour limit.
“He said, ‘Not doing what I say.' ”
Washington said he had concerns about going beyond the NCAA limit of eight hours per week for offseason training, that the treatments were voluntary, that he did not in fact miss a treatment, and that his hamstring injury precluded him from the conditioning drills.
“He kicked me off the team for not showing up for a punishment workout on Saturday and Sunday at 6 a.m.,” Washington said. “I didn't agree with it, I had a pulled hamstring at the time. When am I supposed to do it? I can't practice, and you're going to make me run?”
All of this sounds a bit like that fishy Craig Chambers suspension. From what I've seen, a Griz football player is required to abide by whatever a coach says, completely and silently, no matter how ridiculous or unfair the actions may be. If they don't, they're off the team.
I remember waiting for a spring semester Anthropology class in the Gallagher Business Building lobby when Hauck strutted into the building wearing some goofy looking cowboy boots and jeans that were just a bit too tight.
"Jason Washington, just the man I was looking for."
It's odd seeing this pan out in the news a couple months later. It just goes to show how high the barbed fence is around the Griz football program.
