#6 Qyendarius Griffin

[CajunRebel]

Some of you are missing the point about all of this. In this particular instance, it doesn't matter whether pot should be legal or illegal or whether this is a cultural thing for many African-Americans that somehow explains/excuses Griffin's alleged use of pot.

To me, it is as simple as this. UL made a deal with Griffin in which the university said that they would pay for his tuition and provide him with food and shelter at no expense to him. In return, the university asked that he commit himself to football and to his studies and agree to abide by all rules and regulations of society, the NCAA and the university. By signing on the dotted line, Griffin agreed to all of this.

Griffin has purportedly not lived up to his end of the agreement by allegedly failing 3 drug tests. All the reasons or excuses why he chose to smoke pot are irrelevant. This was a choice he made, nobody forced him smoke it. If good old Uncle Willie was hounding him at the family bar-b-que to smoke some weed, I would have hoped that Griffin would have been strong enough to say "no thanks, I've made a deal with UL and I don't want to screw it up". But he apparently didn't.

The fact is, and I can't see why so many people are having trouble with this, is that his dismissal is simply a result of him breaking the rules that he agreed to abide by. Like I said before, he had to have known what happened to the Honey Badger yet he still made the choice to smoke pot. It doesn't matter if you think that pot should be legal. The NCAA and UL both say that it is a violation of the rules to smoke it and if you do, then there will be consequences. I applaud Coach Hud for saying that rules come before the team and for not trying to figure out some loophole to keep Griffin on the team just to win more games. To me, that shows much integrity on his part and I give him all the props in the world for that.

I don't think anyone is mad at the dismissal or the rules made by Hud, UL, or the NCAA. The only complaints I've seen have to do with the government's laws against drug use.

[Camz]

yea no one said it's wrong for him to be dismissed from the team. I think everyone can agree that if you break agreed upon rules then you face the consequences. I was just asking that guy about him drinking beer but thinking pot should never be legal(lol). But as Z said let's keep this on topic.

Thoughts on if he'll catch on with another school?

[CajunRebel]

There are a lot of people on here saying Griffin suffers from a lack of character. I don't think anyone on here knows Griffin well enough to speak about his character. Period.

[Camz]

he has a pretty entertaining facebook wall so he gets an A+ from me

[jumboragncajun]

Right or wrong, harmful or not, legal or illegal, implying that his inner city cultural background is an excuse does not fly with me. There are 60 or 70 other kids on that team with a similar cultural background that chose to abide by the rules.....or either heed the warnings after a single failed test. Team rules broken. Repeatedly. End of Story.

Every single practice HUD goes over 7 or 8 points that are their lifestyle covenant, rules, code of conduct, or whatever he calls them. One of them is "Don't do drugs."

[cajunhawk]

Right or wrong, harmful or not, legal or illegal, implying that his inner city cultural background is an excuse does not fly with me. There are 60 or 70 other kids on that team with a similar cultural background that chose to abide by the rules.....or either heed the warnings after a single failed test. Team rules broken. Repeatedly. End of Story.

Every single practice HUD goes over 7 or 8 points that are their lifestyle covenant, rules, code of conduct, or whatever he calls them. One of them is "Don't do drugs."

You mean like Lance Kelley?

[STPacronym]

he has a pretty entertaining facebook wall so he gets an A+ from me

Just checked it out...agree with you 1000 percent

[HoustonCajun]

yea no one said it's wrong for him to be dismissed from the team. I think everyone can agree that if you break agreed upon rules then you face the consequences. I was just asking that guy about him drinking beer but thinking pot should never be legal(lol). But as Z said let's keep this on topic.

Thoughts on if he'll catch on with another school?

Perhaps he should transfer to a school in Colorado.

[Camz]

that brings up an interesting point. How will sports programs within those two states respond to this legislation?

[Camz]

Just checked it out...agree with you 1000 percent

before he played a game for us i checked it out and there was a picture of him cutting grass with no shirt on that for some reason cracked me up