Carlos Hyde suspended first 3 games of season.
I never thought I'd say this, but I applaud Urban Meyer. I am guessing that he has more info than we do, becuase I've still never seen any evidence that he actually did anything except get yelled at by some drunk.
While the core value is documented, punishment for not exhibiting them in your day-to-day actions is not, and I'm sure that's by design on Urban's part. It's one thing to paint maxims on a wall to give the illusion of control and discipline, but excluding any penalty to go along with them just means it's window dressing.
If the karma existsts, Cal will open the half with a 28-0 lead. Hyde will be reinstated at halftime, and OSU will lose 28-27. that is the best case scenario as of now.
If the karma existsts, Cal will open the half with a 28-0 lead. Hyde will be reinstated at halftime, and OSU will lose 56-0*. that is the best case scenario as of now.
*fixed it.
I love how the first 30-some-odd comments here are a deep discussion over whether or not Hyde hit a woman according to grainy, inconclusive security film and equally-contradictory first-hand accounts.
I'm amazed he's even sitting out part of the season. I'm sure he did something in that club that you'd rather him not do, but this not the first nor last time instances like this will occur. Hope would have handled it about the same, if perhaps a bit less swarmy. I've said this all along - nobody "wins" if the reason a player misses a game is because he hit someone at a club. I don't like OSU in the slightest, but people being disappointed that he didn't get more of an official punishment because he apparently didn't hit a woman hard enough (which is basically the argument here) seems silly to me.
I think this is about right. I was expecting a suspension that included at least one conference game, but 3-4 isn't outrageous to me. The fact that charges were ultimately dropped has no bearing on this situation in my mind. If there wasn't a viedo, the story would be different. I am guessing he would have been suspended half a game or maybe a full game at the most if visual evidence hadn't been released to the public. On the other hand, Frank Clark pled guilty to a felony last year and only missed a game. I don't recall the OSU or UM fans reaction to that, but, in hindsight, that seems light to me. The difference there is, we don't know all the facts, at least I don't...
Charge was dropped, but this still looks bad. Meyer suspending him for three games is the right call. Cal will get interesting but Hyde will be back before any damage is done. I think Urban Meyer made the right call here and suspended him for a satisfactory amount of time.