Fanblogs.com: Big Brother is always watching at OU
Kevin @ Fanblogs
· 7 months ago
No word yet on if you can post partying, drinking, and getting wasted as your major or career aspiration.
NMLSooner
· 7 months ago
OU probably did this in part because of the Josh Jarboe internet rap video thing that sent him packing after just a few weeks on campus.
TigerEducated
· 7 months ago
I heard Compliance-and even Stoops-had no issue with it...But your Prez did...
The word around the campfire is that he called down that excommunication...
Can you shed any light on that for those of us who aren't Sooner fans (nor college graduates, in my case)?
NMLSooner
· 7 months ago
Not really. I'm way out here in the panhandle. about 6hrs from Norman. I did not hear anything like that. I know Stoops still allowed him to come after his gun possession issue his last semester in HS. From what I understand he had never been in trouble before and promised not to cause any issues, and then... the video. Dismissed and from everything we heard hear it was across the board that they did not want to take a chance on what was starting to look like a pattern. I know he brought in the lineman from LSU that's a projected starter. I haven't heard of him getting in any more trouble either. And they report it all here. Recently I saw a headline that said "GRESHAM ARRESTED". True he was. He had been ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt and had not paid the fine! P.S. You know the graduate comment was meant in jest, right?
TigerEducated
· 7 months ago
It's a subject of some annoyance right now, because believe it or not, my ladyfriend has just about nagged me enough to re-enroll and get finish out my degree in Hist/Poli Sci @ LSU...
But, I know it was...
We're as cool as the center seed of a frozen cucumber, m'friend...
NMLSooner
· 7 months ago
7 years...No more TE it's now TB for Tommy Boy. "Lot's of people go to college for seven years." 'Yeah. They're called Doctors.'
OxfordAndrew
· 7 months ago
Might not be a bad idea to finish in any case, but would the History/PoliSci degree be worth it financially?
Zac
· 7 months ago
I guess that depends upon, or within, what you place value.
Zac
· 7 months ago
OK, it's notable that Oklahoma (doubtless a number of other universities as well) is taking a stand and steps to head off what could be a source of potential trouble for its athletes. I'm all for a code of ethics or code of honor or whatever it they're calling it now-a-days. There's just one problem: This still stands at the fringe of the "freedom of speech, expression, etc., etc., etc." thing.
Few (Yes, there are those out there who can.) can foresee the future. However, logic dictates one should have sufficient vision & wisdom to be capable to at least realize that as technology progresses, so shall its applications progress. Someone with some computer sense should have seen this coming.
That said, if there's going to be a code of ethics, it had darn well better have been spelled out in common language for the athlete to easily read before he signs that letter of intent. Because if it ain't, by what point of law can you stop him, as that's the only power you have left. Otherwise, as I stated in an earlier thread, it's onward and upward to the Supreme Court.
Regan
· 7 months ago
Very well said, Zac...
I'm terribly sorry to say it, but people have the right to be jerks online. I realize that many athletes are NFL-bound, but just as many are intending to actually get a degree for the purposes of getting a degree.
If things endanger the notion of kids earning an education because someone somewhere is offended by something put on some site by someone who may or may not be some student/athlete, some school is really going to get some trouble at some point...
Wardboy3
· 7 months ago
You do have the right to say what you want online, but you go in knowing these are the rules you must abide by to receiving scholarship monies to be a student at OK. If you do not agree to these go somewhere else.
Regan
· 7 months ago
The right of Free Speech is indeed paired with responsibility, but as Zac said, the key here is the clear and specific spelling out of what is and what is not acceptable.
Considering that virtually anyone can come forward claiming they were "offended" by literally anything that anyone says, witch hunts will abound if this isn't spelled out in such a way that doesn't allow for free expression on a university campus, which is supposed to be ABOUT free expression...
Just look at Miss California if you want to see how someone could voice a common opinion and legions of drama queens scream about it like they were on fire to see where we are on First Amendment grounds in America nowadays...
Ramblin' Gator
· 7 months ago
This may have a direct and negative impact on this year's Girls of the Big-12 issue.
"BC"
· 7 months ago
haha. im gonna go make a facebook group posing as an Auburn fan.
"if you dont come to auburn, we'll lynch you!!"
maybe that will put the tigers on probation. or, more than likely, i'll get lynched
TigerEducated
· 7 months ago
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fosterkeats
· 7 months ago
It's like the time I saw some Ga Tech fans in action in Athens vs Georgia in thre Dawg student scetion... they threw stuff on the court, the refs warned the UGA student section, then they threw more shit on the floor and UGA got a technical... then they had to run out of the arena...
Skip1
· 7 months ago
It's inevitable that universities start to assert this kind of control as the risks created by cell phone cameras and social networking sites increase. Traditionally, stupid athlete actions would have been kept either completely in-house or maybe made the college newspaper. But Facebook can broadcast a sexist/racist comment or an underage shirtless keg stand to the entire world. Even taking technology out of the equation, you can't turn FBS college football into a de facto semi-pro league and in turn not expect semi-professional conduct from its participants. These players are figures of national prominence whether they like it or not.
TigerEducated
· 7 months ago
I think this is stupid on the part of the NCAA & OU...
How can you track where a page gets started, or, let's say that a 21 year old student athletes says, "Good times at the Crawfish Boil. Had some Brew & Bugs with my boys at the Boil..." or other such innocent stuff...
Is it now up to the discretion of the NCAA to police Facebook? Or better yet, its up to the school, who better police it, lest the NCAA hammer drop?
Gimme a break...
OU_Ron
· 7 months ago
Don't think they had Brew & Bugs in mind when they put the policy in place....more like the Jarboe video in my opinion.....of course I could be wrong, Brew & Bugs might lead to " sticky Icky " as you so eloquently put it...
TigerEducated
· 7 months ago
Eloquent? I can't even spell noise or parties...
I'm just another product of the ridiculously terrible education system here in Lousyana :)
P.S.-->Fanblogs, I'm heading down to Destin for the weekend...I'll send you a postcard...75 & Sunny all weekend...But, what I want to know is...Can you still get the Mike Price Special down there?
OU_Ron
· 7 months ago
I'm pretty sure you can, but you have to use a company credit card ;-)
Zac
· 7 months ago
FYI: Spent last weekend in Tulsa (Conestoga). Thursday June 4th I arrive at the Biltmore, OK City for SoonerCon. Be there. Aloha.
OU_Ron
· 7 months ago
Pretty sure I'll be here on thursday, we leave for Houston on Friday.....we'll talk before then..
All Comments
The word around the campfire is that he called down that excommunication...
Can you shed any light on that for those of us who aren't Sooner fans (nor college graduates, in my case)?
I know he brought in the lineman from LSU that's a projected starter. I haven't heard of him getting in any more trouble either. And they report it all here. Recently I saw a headline that said "GRESHAM ARRESTED". True he was. He had been ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt and had not paid the fine! P.S. You know the graduate comment was meant in jest, right?
But, I know it was...
We're as cool as the center seed of a frozen cucumber, m'friend...
'Yeah. They're called Doctors.'
Few (Yes, there are those out there who can.) can foresee the future. However, logic dictates one should have sufficient vision & wisdom to be capable to at least realize that as technology progresses, so shall its applications progress. Someone with some computer sense should have seen this coming.
That said, if there's going to be a code of ethics, it had darn well better have been spelled out in common language for the athlete to easily read before he signs that letter of intent. Because if it ain't, by what point of law can you stop him, as that's the only power you have left. Otherwise, as I stated in an earlier thread, it's onward and upward to the Supreme Court.
I'm terribly sorry to say it, but people have the right to be jerks online. I realize that many athletes are NFL-bound, but just as many are intending to actually get a degree for the purposes of getting a degree.
If things endanger the notion of kids earning an education because someone somewhere is offended by something put on some site by someone who may or may not be some student/athlete, some school is really going to get some trouble at some point...
Considering that virtually anyone can come forward claiming they were "offended" by literally anything that anyone says, witch hunts will abound if this isn't spelled out in such a way that doesn't allow for free expression on a university campus, which is supposed to be ABOUT free expression...
Just look at Miss California if you want to see how someone could voice a common opinion and legions of drama queens scream about it like they were on fire to see where we are on First Amendment grounds in America nowadays...
im gonna go make a facebook group posing as an Auburn fan.
"if you dont come to auburn, we'll lynch you!!"
maybe that will put the tigers on probation. or, more than likely, i'll get lynched
How can you track where a page gets started, or, let's say that a 21 year old student athletes says, "Good times at the Crawfish Boil. Had some Brew & Bugs with my boys at the Boil..." or other such innocent stuff...
Is it now up to the discretion of the NCAA to police Facebook? Or better yet, its up to the school, who better police it, lest the NCAA hammer drop?
Gimme a break...
I'm just another product of the ridiculously terrible education system here in Lousyana :)
P.S.-->Fanblogs, I'm heading down to Destin for the weekend...I'll send you a postcard...75 & Sunny all weekend...But, what I want to know is...Can you still get the Mike Price Special down there?