Memphis' John Calipari=The next Bob Huggins

[tornado]

Two more basketball players arrested at a bar-fight/brawl in the middle of the night,
this time it's two
Memphis players, Shawn Taggert, & Jeff Robinson (who is well underage!)
Robinson was charged with inciting a riot, assault-bodily harm and disorderly conduct. Taggart was charged with inciting a riot and disorderly conduct.

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4242766&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/09/02/two-memphis-hoops-players-arrested-after-fight-calipari-mandate/

and of course this isn't the first time thugs from Memphis have been in the police blotter news, it has actually happened quite a few times.

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=11190&highlight=memphis+dorsey#post11190

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1624

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=673&highlight=memphis+dorsey

Here's a great quote from Calipari,

"Calipari said. "But how many times have I said that nothing good happens in a club after midnight?"

[collegehoopjunkie]

Arrests at Memphis and UAB?
Aren't these two of the better teams in the C-USA?

[tornado]

The two players plead not guilty

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4258441&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3704f003-9da2-4520-90c2-2ef94479fe00

[BUBraves06]

Arrests at Memphis and UAB?
Aren't these two of the better teams in the C-USA?

Basketball-wise Memphis is far and away the best team in C-USA and will start the year somewhere in the top-15, but character-wise they are a different story apparently.

[tornado]

now reports are coming out that even though Shawn Taggart & Jeff Robinson were the only two Memphis players arrested,
that other Memphis players were involved in this very-late night bar brawl, and that Memphis and
John Calipari are doing everything in their power to spin it differently and pretend this is just a simple case of a couple boys being boys.

Here is a report that "several other players inside the club" were also involved.

http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=ee2475e2-d064-49d6-8572-49fba238062a

Numerous news outlets have quoted witnesses as saying Memphis Tigers' center Joey Dorsey started the brawl and threw the first punch,
then ducked behind the bar to hide and leave his teammates to get arrested while he egts away...but it isn't the first time he's done this (see below).

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/sep/06/dorsey-may-have-triggered-bar-fracas/

This is FAR from the first time Joey Dorsey has been a troublemaker.

--just 7 months ago a man filed charges that Joey Dorsey sucker punched him in a bar

http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=7031958

--police records show Dorsey has been named as a suspect in THREE different late night bar brawls on Beale St. in Memphis in the past 7 months.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/sep/05/5dorsey/

--and over the past two seasons, Dorsey has been arrested three OTHER times in regards to different violations, shootings, assaults, etc.

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1624

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=11190&highlight=dorsey#post11190

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=673

(that's a total of at least 7 arrests in the past two seasons, AND

and one news source even suspects there's a cover-up so the guy can keep playing!
"
As much as I like Dorsey, he can't seem to grow up. He has allegedly been involved in two other incidences on Beale Street, though the details of those seem so suspect that a suggestion of a cover-up lingers.
Still,using Coach Calipari's logic, it doesn't matter if he did it or not. He was there. He should be punished...
Dismissing Dorsey from the team wouldn't cause people outside the city to think any more of the University of Memphis. Keeping him around wouldn't cause people to think any less.
But Dorsey would be missed on the court. Which is why Calipari won't -- and, indeed, can't -- let him go.
Too much is riding on it. Too many season-tickets have been sold.
A marginal player like Simplice Njoya can be tossed for being difficult to coach. A significant player like Dorsey will survive anything short of a felony.
Calipari might suspend the guy for a stretch of time. He'll say the usual stuff. That he has to be firm and fair but, gee, young people make mistakes.
See, this is where the rubber meets the road. This is where Calipari puts up or shuts up. He needs to kick him off the team.
He's still a kid with no sense, no real measure of accountability. Let the NBA deal with him."


Geez...how many 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th chances does this guy get....
note that each story about the guy and his arrests details how he's a starter, a key player, and a potential future NBA player!!
I guess now we know the reason that head coach Calipari has
NEVER DISCIPLINED THE GUY YET, with even one game of suspension!!


Oh, and just in case your interested, read Joey's side of all this on his Myspace page, ...

http://www.myspace.com/getmoneyniggajoeydorsey

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:SyvQtgO2OI0J:www.myspace.com/getmoneyniggajoeydorsey+%22joey+dorsey%22+and+%22children%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us