Athlete (2001-2003) Michael Southall

[waterboy]

All I can say is that he has more problems than just school (1st hand knowledge,) and that it would be better if he would just go away. This team is better off without him.

[CajunFanatic91]

Amen.
I have no Idea why we recruited this guy after GT dropped him.

[RaginFan]

He needs to set the syzurp down and dedicate himself to his commitments. I hear that he is a bright kid but he doesnt apply his self.

[1stTake]

I don't know what the Cajuns would have done all year, but I PROMISE YOU. If he were on the team the Cajuns would have won today. Jessie it is your fault Southall got lazy. Do you hear me the Cajuns would have won today with SOUTHALL

[AirBill]

33 percent from the field? Ouch.... Boyd was stone cold.

Can't even use the excuse that they shot more free throws than we did, and it was even in rebounds. If we shoot even halfway decently, we win the game. Period.

[1stTake]

Originally posted by AirBill
33 percent from the field? Ouch.... Boyd was stone cold.

Can't even use the excuse that they shot more free throws than we did, and it was even in rebounds. If we shoot even halfway decently, we win the game. Period.

Thanks for posting this I did not notice that it was even in rebounds.

[NewsCopy]

Basketball phenom violates probation for drug offense

A once-promising basketball career could be over for a former All-State player from West Salem who was ordered Friday to spend a year in La Crosse County jail for violating probation on a 2000 drug conviction.

"What a waste. What an absolute waste," La Crosse County Circuit Judge Ramona Gonzalez said Friday before sentencing 22-year-old Michael Southall.

Southall, who was a first-team All-State selection in 2000 and was working to get back on the court after a promising first year at Division I University of Louisiana, pleaded with the judge to give him one more chance.

He and his parents, Benjamin and Lorna Southall, told the judge Southall's attitude had changed with the birth of his son earlier this month.

"He's my heir. He's everything to me. I know I have a big responsibility now and I have to bring him up right," Southall said.

He said he wanted to put his legal problems behind him, go back to school, help raise his son and, if it works out, play basketball again.

But an emotional Gonzalez scolded Southall for blowing every opportunity he was given since his legal problems began, and for hurting everyone who cared for him or tried to help.

Although her first instinct was to give Southall prison time, Gonzalez said she cooled down and realized the punishment would not fit the crime.

"Lucky for you, I have yet to send someone to prison for a first offense," Gonzalez told Southall.

Instead, Gonzalez ordered Southall to begin serving his jail sentence immediately and said he will spend the first six months without Huber privileges. Southall hugged both his parents and was led away to jail.

The sentence could bring Southall's college basketball career to an end.

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La Crosse Tribune
DAN SPRINGER
(608) 791-8269
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[NewsCopy]

Former University of Kentucky basketball recruit Michael Southall was ordered Friday to spend a year in jail for violating probation on a 2000 drug conviction, the La Crosse (Wis.) Tribune reported.

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[NewsCopy]

It's another sad chapter in the life of former West Salem basketball star Michael Southall. He is in jail tonight for violating the conditions of his plea agreement. In 2000 Southall pleaded guilty to Marijuana delivery charges. Since then he has repeatedly broken the rules, abusing both drugs and alcohol. Southall told the judge he realizes the consiquences of what he has done and the impact that it had on his family.

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[Zeebart21]

What a stupid S O B.....

what a waste.....

Z.