More legal trouble at Iowa

[Da Coach]

Poor Steve Alford. Looks like he has a couple more budding criminals to deal with.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060927/SPORTS02050101/60927024/1003/RSS02

Henderson and Smith need to hire the lawyers who represented Luther Head, Aaron Spears, and Rich McBride.
That "joint stament" that was released by the Iowa athletic department is a hoot. I suspect not a single word of it was actually written by either kid. It sounds like the PR department at Iowa was working overtime to come up with that statement of contrition!

[squeaky]

Here is a little more info from the AP. Apparently it involves theft from a Dillards department store in a mall in Coralville.

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=132406

Maybe with this news, the Iowa AD will extend Steve Alford's contract for another 10 years!

[MacabreMob]

Maybe with this news, the Iowa AD will extend Steve Alford's contract for another 10 years!

And Illini fans can do Indian dances around a fire singing praises.

[tornado]

LOCK YOUR DOORS!!
Alford's players are at it again!!

Remember, when Pierre Pierce was raping and robbing, he was allowed back on the team because he had talent!!

Only when he was arrested the second time and went to the pokey for a while for robbing and threatening his babe was he dismissed.

Let's see the circus that this cr*p will cause, because, guess what....Tyler Smith is a superstud and Alford will want him on the team more than he wants his own family.

I am predicting these crooks will get maybe a suspension of a preseason exhibition game only sorta like what Jamal Tatum will get.

[collegehoopjunkie]

I guess I am a bit tired of hearing these kids who rape, rob, and attack brush off their crimes with phrases like

"made a very poor decision"

"this is out of character for both of us"

"we made such a stupid mistake"

[tornado]

More details

http://www.hawkcentral.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060928/HAWKS0102/609280324/1056

These guys are getting tens of thousands of dollars of education and room and board for free (at taxpayers' expense) and yet they feel compelled to rip off a local department store to get some threads.


Here's a real joke

"This is the first time one of Iowa's basketball players has run afoul of the law since the dismissal of Pierre Pierce from the team Feb. 2, 2005"

Wow, they have no arrests (that we know of) in their program in a year and a half!!!!!!!!!
They are practically saints!!

[tornado]

Here is yet another odd report.

One reporter contacted the family of Mike Henderson, one of the players arrested.
He asked about the arrest and the charges on Wednesday (three days after Henderson's arrest for theft)
and Henderson's brother says

"I don't know what you're talking about"
He spoke with his brother Wednesday, but the topic of the arrest did not come up"

http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2006/09/28/Sports/2.Hawkeye.Hoopsters.Charged-2313459.shtml?sourcedomain=www.dailyiowan.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com

[pantherpride]

This is a revolving door circus.
Between Iowa and Iowa State, the whole state is being given a
black eye. ISU had the Eustachy drinking issues, Holman
getting drunk all the time, and players like Varley, Alexander,
and Bynum getting thrown off the team for various assaults
and alcohol problems.
Add to that, Haluska and Henderson had originally verballed to
Iowa State and both backed out claiming moral superiority and went to Iowa.
In the past couple years at Iowa, now they have the legal
issues with players like Pierce, Smith, and Henderson,
Brody Boyd, Sean Sonderleiter, and others.
It's a circus.

[collegehoopjunkie]

Wow, was that fast.
Midnight Madness must be close.
The two shoplifters at Iowa have already had their court date and plead guilty.
So now the door is open for Alford to excuse them and let both of them right back on the team.
Anyone wanna bet on this one?

http://www.hawkcentral.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060928/HAWKS0102/60928007/1053/HAWKS

[BTID]

What kills me about stories like this is that oftentimes they seem to involve big, publically funded state schools. If the legislators in these states would finally "grow a pair" and threaten to cut their funding over shenanigans like this, maybe the landscape would change. However, many of those serving at the various statehouses are alumni from the shady schools in question. I guess that's why we have the NCAA to oversee crap like this. Unfortunately, the NCAA would be more willing to give someone like Wichita State the "death penalty" over minor infractions, while more serious stuff at a place like Kansas gets a "pass"

[tornado]

Re: More legal trouble at Iowa

Poor Steve Alford. Looks like he has a couple more budding criminals to deal with.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060927/SPORTS02050101/60927024/1003/RSS02

Henderson and Smith need to hire the lawyers who represented Luther Head, Aaron Spears, and Rich McBride.
That "joint stament" that was released by the Iowa athletic department is a hoot. I suspect not a single word of it was actually written by either kid. It sounds like the PR department at Iowa was working overtime to come up with that statement of contrition!

More totally deficient discipline...but I guess that's the trend nowadays!

The two Iowa players who were caught shoplifting from a Dillards department store, Tyler Smith and Mike Henderson,
were both projected to be possible starters. All along, since the news broke back in September,
Coach Steve Alford has stated he would decide on strong and effective discipline.

But in Iowa's only exhibition to date, their Black/Gold Gmae, both players not only DID play, they both
started and played major (30) minutes...

Well, finally, after after nearly a month and a half, a statement has been issued.

Tyler Smith will miss ONE EXHIBITION GAME this Friday against Buena Vista, but he WAS NOT suspended
for their Black/Gold game two weeks ago and has not missed any games or practices otherwise.

Mike Henderson broke the little finger on his right hand and probably won't play in the exhibition anyway,
so Alford has deemed Henderson penalty to be NO ADDITIONAL GAMES.
In other words, no penalty at all!

"Alford said he will not add to the games Henderson is missing because of the injury.
So when Henderson is healthy and can resume play...
Alford said it wouldn't be fair to add two games to the injury- related loss of games."

http://www.hawkcentral.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061108/HAWKS0102/61108009/1053/HAWKS

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=132406

[brainiac]

RRRing....
Hello, Mr. Alford?
My name is CJ, can I come and play on your team?