Quote from: SaintsFAN on October 17, 2008, 01:11:17 PM

Quote from: salisburye on October 15, 2008, 07:37:09 PM

As a former player from Salisbury's team who still attends the university, please don't comment on a situation you know nothing about. It's not always your actions that get you in trouble, sometimes it's just the color of your skin. Let's just say most of those guys were innocent and had nothing to do with the situation and WILL be back on the field and roster.

Sorry for those of you that take offense to another posting about this -- I'm sorry, I just can't let this comment go.  I read the article and saw some of the pictures of the mugshots of the people involved.  Lets just say this doesn't appear to be a "color of your skin" issue... and any non-biased observer can see that by viewing the photos of each person that was arrested. 

Another thing... most teams would suspend or kick off the team, players who are even involved in situations where a police department calls for assistance from 6 other agencies. 

I commend Sherman Wood for taking action right away.   Hopefully the players involved are accepting the appropriate level of responsibility unlike the poster I've responded to.  FYI, its nearly impossible to get out of disorderly conduct charges that result from a fight in a parking of a bar. 

Good luck to the rest of the year, Salisbury fans.  Nice win last weekend. 

Again...like I said before...please don't comment on something you know absolutely nothing about...and don't believe the media. I mean the first reports on the local Salisbury news was that a brawl broke out between Salisbury and Newport News players in the bar  , so you know to take everything they say with a grain of salt. Anyways The players that didn't do anything have been back at school and will be back on the field shortly.

Quote from: Gull_backer_5 on October 14, 2008, 01:10:44 PM
On the old News

It is a disgrace how a knuckle head like this can shame the current S.U. team, coaching staff, and entire University.  This is an insult to all previous Salisbury football alumni and the mind-set they believed was instilled in the football program.  It is unfortunate that half the defense was lost in this incident.  The current players have the selfish and stupid decisions of those young men to thank for this loss.  It doesn't look like Gooch learned anything from this fight in the mug shot. 
One of the things that you have to learn as a D-3 football player is that you're not entitled to anything, especially at Salisbury.  A team has to earn respect and maintain it.  There are no scholarships.  They only thing that makes you special are your teammates.  That is what is great about D-3.  This is a bunch of guys who love football so much that they devote the time of a scholarship player just to be able to play and when you have that balance thrown off by things like this; it hurts. 
It takes a lot more positive to erase the negatives.

Go Gulls   

As a former player from Salisbury's team who still attends the university, please don't comment on a situation you know nothing about. It's not always your actions that get you in trouble, sometimes it's just the color of your skin. Let's just say most of those guys were innocent and had nothing to do with the situation and WILL be back on the field and roster.

Quote from: boobyhasgameyo on October 11, 2008, 04:23:22 PM

Quote from: dlippiel on October 11, 2008, 04:18:16 PM
good point dewcrew but...This is an SJF team that came into the year ranked 10th right? or at least somewhere in that area. They have had two solid (in my view) showings against MUC in the past two games out of three (in comparison to other MUC opponents) which gave the east some overall confidence. This year they were again tabbed "the team" by most and have struggled. Their only convincing W came against IC (which did impress me) but then they proceeded to lose to freakin Hartwick and again today to the 17th ranked team in the nation having 5 key players suspended and I believe missing two others to injury. I know that their two LBS were benched but I think with all the expectations and hopes for the Cardinals this year many, including myself are very disappointed in their play. I really wanted them to win today. They in my mind should not go the the NCAAs this year.

They didn't lose 5 key players, they lost 5 players.  One  never played, one was a backup, and 3 started.  Hartwick isn't the worst team in the world.  Fisher has been failing their expectations.  

What are you talking about? Salisbury lost 7 starters on defense for that game; the 5 that were suspended, one from an injury last week and one went down in the 1Q. They were very depleted on defense but the younger guys stepped up.