Golf Cart Gate Settled In Court--Now It's Riley's Turn

And don’t worry about Moevao and Kristick. They are adults now and they can do whatever they want. This is just a prank/dare/drunk college kid thing to do. I don’t think we need to worry about it.

with Coach Riley, which we will never know, I could see and agree with a longer suspension for Olander, given his other episodes, maybe the first two games.

I wouldn’t drive a wedge between Moevao and Kristick and the program. I suspect they already realize they made the mistake of being careless, and anyone who knows much about Lyle’s mom can probably imagine how that conversation went.

Out of site is out of mind for young men of this age group, so it’s better they don’t disappear, and not have anyone else actually learn from this.

It has been a crazy week, and crazy is an adjective that can be applied (accurately) in a number of ways.

John Canzno of the Oregonian/Bald Faced Truth/Oregon Live … has pounded out a lot of column inches, and a lot of bytes of sound bytes on every aspect of golfcart gate, and will surely have more to say about Peter Lalich, Shastagate, and Mike Riley as we go forward. The publisher of the Oregonian will surely have plenty of material to submit in this year’s sportswriting competition among AP papers, in his quest for a third national award for John.

One has to keep some perspective on all this, I think.

There was a flurry of activity with the UofDuck, some of it very serious, and it warranted coverage by all of of. Maybe not quite as much as it got.

So it became necessary for the balance that some cried for that when there were OSU events, they got covered too. And they should have some coverage. As much as it got? Maybe not, except for what else has happened.

John makes a valid point that the attention things get in Corvallis is not the same as in Eugene. He misses the point that there might be valid differences in circumstances. Or maybe one series of events is just a bigger deal than the other.

And the point that while Riley hasn’t been front and center on Golfcart gate, as Mike Parker noted, he already dealt with it internally.

He also overlooks the impact on any given incident of the local agenda of the local powers that be. The splash someone is looking to make can be bigger than the actual splash. Either way, bystanders get wet.

As far as Lalich and Shastagate, of course Riley hasn’t acted, it just happened. It doesn’t mean he needs to do anything at the moment either, nor that it be all that visible when he does.

At least Philomathgate hasn’t gotten beyond the Gazette-Times, which reported today that Krista Reinking, an assistant coach on the womens’ basketball team, already a troubled, and shrinking, group, was cited for an accident at about 2:20 a.m. on May 6, when Reinking was driving a Jeep in the 200 block of North 13th Street when she crashed into the back of a parked Chevy Tahoe. And was apparently uncooperative later at the hospital with the local police.

Given how much fun it’s been this year around the womens’ program, the biggest surprise might be that no one needed a stiff drink before now.

At least John and 95.5 the Blazer don’t consider womens’ sports worthy of discussion. So don’t expect that accident to garner the same level of attention state wide as even Lalich’s event the next day. And Lalich’s moment was the one that didn’t involve anything getting damaged, or anyone resisting the police.

The moral of the story is the circumstances are always different, and even more important that the incident itself.

Just imagine if we had had to discuss conference expansion and realignment (and the billions of dollars at stake there) all week!

Regarding Lalich who I believe is a scholarship player, if the taxpayers are paying for your education and you can use the money saved to treat yourself to nice vacations the poor shlub “general admission” students can’t even think about, you have very few but important obligations. First and foremost, represent the university, don’t bring dishonor to it or yourself.

If you can’t do that and are already on double secret probation due to past indiscretions, it’s time to cut the cord. Way to take Riley’s flyer on you and just totally abuse him, dude. Nice touch, very mature. You take care, or not, whatever.

I say Canzano et al can go ahead and just jack their jaws about this stuff until the next millenium. With this kind of ammo, what do we expect?

I think tall drunk belligerent jock chicks are hot, though…