Coker to Players: No More Guns… Call 911
Since bad things were done to members of the Miami Hurricanes football team instead of by them, this issue didn’t get a lot of press. But last Friday morning, backup safety Willie Cooper was shot outside his home in an unexplained Menace II Society incident.
Cooper and his roommate, standout safety Brandon Meriweather, noticed a suspicious car parked outside their home near campus shortly after 6:30 a.m. Ignoring the rules of scary situations, they went outside to investigate and were greeted with gunfire, as a person crouched next to the house jumped up and shot Cooper in the arse. Meriweather (legally) returned the bullets with his own weapon but the assailant got away.
In the wake of this craziness, Hurricanes coach Larry Coker is taking a stand with plans to discourage players from owning handguns.
Plans to discourage… meaning, he hasn’t done it before. Can someone tell me how the head coach of the University of Convicts has never thought to discourage the possession of weapons? How a coach who accepted a player with 11 prior arrests in 5 years for burglary, battery, and other offenses just let that mundane issue slip by the wayside? At least for the sake of keeping said player off the police blotter, don’t you have that talk? This isn’t Harvard; your defensive tackle didn’t drive to campus from Phillips in his 350Z.
“I don’t really want our players to have firearms. I’d rather they would dial 911 to come and handle those type of problems,” Coker said at ACC Football Kickoff media days Monday. Coker also said he didn’t know how many players had firearms and said it wasn’t something he planned to find out. “I’m not going to take a head count on firearms, but I’ll address it and discourage it, let’s put it that way.”
Translation: I’m putting my head back in the sand where I’ll hope against hope that my players don’t make me look like a dumbass. Way to put your foot down, Uncle Fester.
Instead of giving the “lecture” on not owning weapons, why doesn’t Coker encourage his team to stay away from activities and individuals that result in suspicious vehicles being parked in front of houses and armed assailants waiting in the bushes?! It’s one thing for players to own licensed handguns… when you play football or basketball for a high-profile program, it’s highly likely that some crazed fan/idiot is going to end up on your doorstep at one point or another. Maybe they’re dangerous and maybe not but I have no quarrel with a person in this situation having a weapon in their home. However, when an athlete has a weapon to protect himself against the possibility of random gangsters showing up at his home to engage in shootouts before its even appropriate to roll out of bed for an Egg McMuffin, there is a serious problem.
Someone in that house is currently or has engaged in criminal activity and maybe the coach should do his due diligence to check that out. There is a severe difference between having a gun to protect oneself from random acts of violence and being strapped if and when the gang rolls up on your porch.
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lol If i’m coach at miami the gun talk is the first thing on the to do list!
Yeah somethin aint on the up and up with this situation. no way that was a random attack.
This makes two incidents in as many weeks where a football player gets shot before most people are up for the morning breakfast. Something tells me we’re never gonna hear anything about further investigations on these issues.
Didn’t you know Anderson? It’s the in thing now to try to do your killin before breakfast!
I loved this portion about Free Shoes later on in the article:
Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said he makes his players who own guns for hunting purposes register them with the coaching staff. “We keep ‘em,” Bowden said Monday. “If they go hunting, they check the guns out. Does that slip by sometime? I don’t know. I don’t keep up with it that much.”
hah They could check out that whole “hunting” arsenal and Bobba wouldn’t catch on
they could rob Bobba and he wouldn’t catch on. “dadgummit.. guess them boys got me!”
C’mon, it’s Miami! Just being within the city limits makes you a potential target. Besides, everyone knows you gotta carry your clip so’s you don’t get zipped, kna’mean!
Obviously these killers arent well rested. Theyve gotta get some breakfast in the system so they can get some proper aim and stop shootin cats in the braids and the ass.
Nothing that ever happens at Miami from now on will make me laugh harder than 7 Floor Crew
Maybe the players aren’t into drugs and gangs and crime and are really just trying to pay tribute to the days of Dennis Erickson!
Are you guys kidding me? If BM wasn’t strapped, theres a damn good possiblity that this post would be about two dead safeties from The U. I’m from Miami, and an alum, and these guys are all huge targets here. Local gangs, young punks, they all try to make a name for themselves. I’m not saying some of these guys may not be involved in some shady crap, but regardless, a lot of the time the trouble comes looking for them. So I say FRUCK it, glocks should be standard issue at The U. Maybe these bastards will start playing with attitude again.
“So I say FRUCK it, glocks should be standard issue at The U. Maybe these bastards will start playing with attitude again. ”
An alum, you say? Never would have guessed