📡 Jacksonville State students, area residents protest the acceptance of football recruit accused of sexual assault; TE Landon Rice left Auburn in 2016,

[TerryP]

The Title IX case at AU found him "guilty" to the point he was banned from campus until 2024. A grand jury in Lee County didn't indict him when they met back in April.

 

[alabama mike]

The best thing this young man could do would be to get out of state if he wants to try to play football again.

 

[bamaledge]

The best thing this young man could do would be to get out of state if he wants to try to play football again.

May go to Canada!
Well done JSU!

 

[kbama15]

While his actions is inexcusable! I personally would decod him if it was my daughter! The Barn runs him off. But have a basketball coach that acts in the same way! and is under the microscope. but he is winning so...... No problem for the Barn!!!

 

[TerryP]

While his actions is inexcusable! I personally would decod him if it was my daughter! The Barn runs him off. But have a basketball coach that acts in the same way! and is under the microscope. but he is winning so...... No problem for the Barn!!!

A basketball coach who acts the same way? You've lost me.

I could see a comparison drawn to their softball coaches (former,) considering that whole ordeal.

Well done JSU!

I don't have a "dog in this hunt" (which seems like an apropos word considering a grand jury didn't find enough to warrant taking this to a criminal trial.)

Is it a case of "well done" when a court higher than that of AU's student council(s) has stated there wasn't enough grounds to pursue this any farther? I'm looking at the whole story and I'm led to believe this was more about how the public viewed AU versus finding out the truth of the matter.

 

[TUSKtimes]

The title IX stuff has only muddied the waters as far as accomplishing much of anything when it comes to the truth. If the police, after a criminal investigation, doesn't get to the bottom of something, I don't see how anyone else is in a better position to do it?

 

[Max]

Rice's journey back to the football field has been overshadowed by off-the-field investigations into his conduct while at Auburn. He was banned from campus in 2016, resulting from an alleged sexual assault incident, but those sanctions expired in September 2017 instead of the then-planned year of 2024, according to Jacksonville State. Rice left Auburn in September 2016 for “personal reasons,” Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said. The head coach refused to go into details.

Title IX paperwork uncovered by AL.com earlier this year revealed much more on the alleged incident, which involved a student at the university. A grand jury in Lee County did not indict Rice on charges in April 2017. He was also never arrested. The university, however, took a stronger stance against Rice and found him responsible for the sexual assault, according to AL.com.

Rice, who was rated a 4-star tight end prospect by 247Sports out of high school, did not accept responsibility for the assault, according to the letter obtained by AL.com.

Jacksonville State reached out to Auburn to clear up his status in recent weeks.

"Jacksonville State University conducted a very thorough investigation surrounding all of the facts on Landon Rice, just like we do on any of our recruits," according to a statement from JSU. "After speaking with several officials from Auburn University and getting all of the facts surrounding the investigation, and after meeting with Landon, we decided to allow Landon to enroll at JSU and join our football program.

"On September 26, 2017, all sanctions imposed upon Landon as a result of a Title IX investigation expired and Landon was returned to the status of 'good standing' at Auburn University. The matter and all proceedings therein have been concluded, according to a memo dated November 7, 2017, from Kelley Taylor, Director AA/EEO and Title IX Coordinator at Auburn University.

"We have high standards for all of our student-athletes and we do our due diligence on all recruits before they join any of our athletics teams at Jacksonville State and Landon was treated the same. Privacy laws prevents us from releasing more details on the investigation."

2 former Auburn players transfer to Jacksonville State

 

[kbama15]

A basketball coach who acts the same way? You've lost me.

I could see a comparison drawn to their softball coaches (former,) considering that whole ordeal.


I don't have a "dog in this hunt" (which seems like an apropos word considering a grand jury didn't find enough to warrant taking this to a criminal trial.)

Is it a case of "well done" when a court higher than that of AU's student council(s) has stated there wasn't enough grounds to pursue this any farther? I'm looking at the whole story and I'm led to believe this was more about how the public viewed AU versus finding out the truth of the matter.

Just saying Pearl has been known to be a sleazy playboy. and the way he keeps refusing to talk with the NCAA and Auburn. Kid had no Right doing what he did. But some coaches get away with it, as long as they are winning.

 

[TerryP]

Just saying Pearl has been known to be a sleazy playboy. and the way he keeps refusing to talk with the NCAA and Auburn. Kid had no Right doing what he did. But some coaches get away with it, as long as they are winning.

I've never associated Pearl with playboy. I have associated Pearl with a wife that's BSC (see Kristi Malzahn) so that fits for the Auburn contingent.

I laughed when his ex opened a salon in Knoxville called "Alimonies." I shook my head in disbelief when his second wife compared Pearl to Jesus Christ when the NCAA placed a show cause on him. The quote was something like "now I know two Jewish men who have been crucified." {sic}

 

[kbama15]

I've never associated Pearl with playboy. I have associated Pearl with a wife that's BSC (see Kristi Malzahn) so that fits for the Auburn contingent.

I laughed when his ex opened a salon in Knoxville called "Alimonies." I shook my head in disbelief when his second wife compared Pearl to Jesus Christ when the NCAA placed a show cause on him. The quote was something like "now I know two Jewish men who have been crucified." {sic}

I just remember seeing pictures of him on a boat with his arm around a girl way younger than him. May or may not have been his wife. He's slim and fits in well down there.

 

[TerryP]

I just remember seeing pictures of him on a boat with his arm around a girl way younger than him. May or may not have been his wife. He's slim and fits in well down there.

Wife #2 perhaps. She's a 12 pack as I recall.

 

[rick4bama]

Can you blame these students? It not like when barner took in the computer crook?

 

[TerryP]

Can you blame these students? It not like when barner took in the computer crook?

When I consider the number of players who have been kicked off other teams and end up playing for Jacksonville State I say, yes, we can blame the students. Now it's an issue? Now, we've got a kid who wasn't charged criminally, a "justice system" within the school and its punishments have been served (whether it was right or wrong,) and now he's been punished again?

It's my opinion the school made the right choice to accept him. It's also my opinion they made the wrong choice by letting students dictate their decisions.