JD Quinn gets a DUI

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Colin O'Keefe
I'm speechless. I'm without speech. I have no comment other than it had been just a little too quiet for the past couple weeks.

From the Cat-Griz Insider:
More trouble in Grizzlyville. J.D. Quinn, the troubled Oklahoma transfer, was apparently arrested for DUI early Sunday morning in Missoula. Details have been few and far between, but here was coach Bobby Hauck’s reaction:

“As always, there will be firm disciplinary measures taken, and those measures will be handled within our football team. One of the disciplinary actions will include mandatory alcohol counseling.”

Interestingly enough, Jason Washington, who was recently removed from the team by Hauck, bailed Quinn out.
Could someone please Youtube this like the last time we talked about JD?

At this point, I'm getting a little numb to all of this. DUI? At least he didn't kill someone or sell cocaine, right? I know it's not right, he could've killed someone too. But still.

I feel like this kid needs constant supervision. Or an electric collar. Maybe a tape-delay on everything he says. Probably all three.
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Sounds like Jason Washington got screwed

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Colin O'Keefe
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:
“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?'

“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?”
Hauck refuses to comment on any disciplinary actions so that's all we have. The head coach denies going over that eight hour limit.

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.
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