breaking news huge brawl at college football game

[sabbat hunter]

there was a huge brawl involving the University of Miami and Florida players. it started after the extra point, and rapidly degraded into involving the entirety of both teams. stomping, kicking, hitting players with helmets as weapons.

[bluestateguy]

1. That's breaking news?

This is a post 9/11 world here.

[marmar]

2. I thought Florida was playing Auburn today?

:shrug:

[Longhorn]

5. It's Florida International at Miami.

Apparently the first time they've played each other in football and a cross-town rivalry.

[Jim Sagle]

3. Fuck sports.

[valerief]

4. My sentiments exactly. nt

[Captain Hilts]

10. We need sports now, more than ever. There's good news in sports...nt

[northzax]

15. welcome to the Sports forum

enjoy your stay.

this wasn't sport, this was thuggery on both sides. goons. compare that to the Florida/Auburn game, hard fought and brutal, with two teams that acted like players. that was sport.

[Bill McBlueState]

19. Fuck whatever your hobby is. n/t

[LisaM]

22. LOL - let's go on all the other topic forums and diss them

F*** cooking! F*** books! F*** writing!

[Scurrilous]

6. Brawl breaks out in FIU-UM game

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"A sideline-clearing brawl interrupted the third quarter of the Florida International-Miami game Saturday night, prompting the ejection of 13 players in the first meeting between the South Florida rivals.

FIU had eight players ejected, Miami had five. It was the first on-field fight in FIU's five-year football history, school officials said."

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"The fight started shortly after Jon Peattie's extra point with 9:00 left in the third quarter gave Miami a 14-0 lead. Both sidelines quickly emptied, with several fights breaking out during the melee before order was restored.

The brawl lasted about five minutes, and it took officials several more minutes to sort out the penalties. Players from both sides appeared to be swinging helmets, and one injured FIU player came onto the field swinging a crutch at Miami players.

More than two dozen uniformed police officers came onto the field, trying to end the fights."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15762256.htm


...oh yeah, Miami wins 35 - 0.

[JoFerret]

7. Ship them all off somewhere useful.

.

[rocktivity]

8. Only the players? It had spread into the stands, I would consider it news.

But I suppose that's better than the pro football game when a brawl broke out during the coin toss!

:eyes:
rocknation

[UrbScotty]

17. During the coin toss?

When was this?

[Awsi Dooger]

9. That's the end of Larry Coker

The only thing he had going for him was a nice guy image, supposedly someone who cleaned up the program. When you've restored a thug image along with mediocre football, hard to see how he survives this. And Miami will likely suspend many players and possibly decline a bowl invite, should they earn one.

I've got friends and parents at the game and I'll be interested to hear their report. Supposedly FIU started it but that's basically irrelevant. The two prominent clips were Miami safeties Reddick and Meriwaether, swinging a helmet and stomping with cleats.

You should see the Miami message boards right now. Fans from other sites starting threads calling the Canes thugs or worse. I'm a lifelong Canes fan but I certainly can't deflect any of this. I knew it would be a high intensity game, an upstart program from across town, but I expected it to simply be heated words, not anything physical like this. As someone else posted, there was no history of on-field brawls involving FIU.

It actually hurts the Canes, the fact that the other team is totally obscure and the game ended up 35-0. It comes across as picking on a weakling.

[northzax]

14. yes, back to the bad old days in Coral Gables

the Old Miami is back, but instead of being goons in big games, like the old days, they are goons to the patsies. Pathetic.

Yes, FIU started it, no question, but the fact that Miami was so easily goaded by a waste of DNA team like FIU does not bode well for Coker having any control over his team. His one chance at survival is to immediatly boot anyone involved in the fracas before the conference does anything. preemptive strike, anyone fighting gets two games, anyone going beyond fighting (like the corners you mentioned) gonesville. Cut, today. think that will happen? yeah, me neither.

[Cush]

11. video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JWeE9KqZjQ

not sure who it is, but listen to the commentary

[Awsi Dooger]

12. That's Lamar Thomas, who deserves to be fired

Former Canes WR, best known for having the ball stripped from behind in the Sugar Bowl loss to Alabama in '91.

[Scurrilous]

23. Lamar Thomas to be disciplined for on-air brawl comments

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"Comcast Sports Southeast general manager Mark Fuhrman said Monday the network is planning disciplinary action against announcer Lamar Thomas for comments he made about the brawl during Saturday's UM-FIU game.

''At this point we're consulting with the university and discussing whether to fire him'' or dole out other punishment, Fuhrman said.

Thomas' comments, which were aired live on the pay-per-view broadcast, drew about 50 e-mailed complaints to CSS, Fuhrman said.

As the brawl was unfolding during the telecast, Thomas said, among other things: 'You come into our house -- you should get your behind kicked. . . . You cross the city! . . I say, `Why don't they just meet outside in the tunnel after the ball game and get it on some more?' ''

Fuhrman said Thomas' comments would be edited out of CSS' rebroadcast of the game at noon and 7 p.m. Wednesday."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15773417.htm

[davidinalameda]

13. it's Miami

what do you expect

the football program is nothing but thugs

Shalala should lose her job along with Coker over this

[Lefty48197]

16. SHOCKING NEWS FLASH! Miami U was involved.

Shocking isn't it?

[Scurrilous]

18. University of Miami suspends three players

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"The University of Miami suspended three players this morning for their involvement in Saturday night’s brawl with Florida International. And more suspensions are likely to follow.

UM coach Larry Coker said safety Brandon Meriweather, linebacker James Bryant and safety Anthony Reddick will be suspended for at least the team’s game at Duke next week.

And the five UM players who were ejected from the game – cornerbacks Bruce Johnson and Carlos Armour, running back Charlie Jones, and offensive linemen Derrick Morse and Chris Barney – could also face further disciplinary action. “I didn’t see the whole picture,” Coker said. “Some of it I saw on TV when I got home last night. I haven’t seen the full TV copy. I’ll see that later today, and when we get that copy .”

UM officials were still trying to clarify this morning what the NCAA rules are on automatic suspensions for players involved in fights. Athletic director Paul Dee said ACC officials will meet later this afternoon to discuss possible punishments.”

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15767345.htm

[Bill McBlueState]

20. I wonder if this is symptomatic of a wider problem

Every week, mid-major college football players have to come out on the field and be humiliated so their programs can take home a big paycheck. The players don't see a nickel of that, but usually their head coach is the highest-paid employee on campus.

I wonder if the FIU players were sick of being treated as cash cows and, facing defeat on the football field, decided to beat Miami (FL) a different way.

[SDDEM06]

21. It's actually even deeper than that

in this case, the FIU players not only had to suffer through a bad loss (although at the time they were still in the game) but they were losing to a Miami team filled with players who they had either played with or against in high school. Many of the FIU players had wanted to go to Miami but were passed over.

You are correct that these schools trade their players' pride and self-worth for a quick payday, with the players seeing none of the benefit. And in most cases the football or basketball coach is not just the highest-paid employee on campus, but at state schools has the highest paycheck for a public employee in the entire state.

The only point you're off about was the fact that this game was still close when the brawl started. It isn't like Miami was already up 35-0. The other factors contributed to this though.

And if that idiot color commentator hasn't already been fired someone needs to find out why.

[Scurrilous]

24. Miami trustees discuss brawl; Coker safe for now

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"About two dozen members of the University of Miami board of trustees met for two hours on Monday morning, spending the last 30 minutes discussing Saturday's ugly brawl with Florida International and the future of Hurricanes coach Larry Coker.

According to the trustee who attended the meeting, President Donna Shalala said: "Nobody's job is in jeopardy now."

Shalala, the trustee said, is standing by her committment to Coker, at least through this season, adding that the fight was "embarrassing" but "not cause for dismissal."

"Saturday's on-field melee has no place at the University of Miami," Shalala said in a prepared statement issued during the meeting. "Regardless of who started it, this was an embarrassing display of unsportsmanlike behavior."

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2628132