Sitkowski and Blackshear: throw those quitters off the team.

[DJ Spanky]

Bailed on their teammates, Art Sitkowski and Raheem Blackshear, what a pair of gutless,craven, selfcentered losers, they should have their scholarships stripped from them and never be allowed back into any of the facilities. Your teammates are out there doing their best, and all you're doing is thinking about yourself. Feckless, selfish, thoughtless, weak, disloyal, two-faced, treacherous, unreliable, faithless, perfidious, deceitful: there aren't enough words in the English language to describe your pathetic abandonment of your team and your brothers in arms. You should be ashamed to ever put on Rutgers gear again.

 

[bac2therac]

well said

 

[RUtix4me]

Merge thread candidate?

 

[DJ Spanky]

Think about this also: who had Blachshear been taking snaps with all week before deciding to sit at the last minute? He really screwed Langan.

 

[RU Cheese]

There's multiple threads about this, moderator

 

[RUtix4me]

There's multiple threads about this, moderator

Let’s add third and fourth and see how long they last

 

[RUtix4me]

Or we can just hijack it.

 

[Knightmoves]

I have new found respect for DJ Spanky. Let them have it!

Did Hobbs know about this situation with Art and Raheem when he fired Ash?

When did Hobbs know?

 

[Extra Point]

No coaches left to curse so now you go after the players. Spanky, it is only a game. We aren't in the military trying to defeat isis and seeing soldiers leaving a gun fight from fear. The players reacted to a bad situation Hobbs put them in.

 

[Scarlet_Monster]

For one thing you definitely strip the C off of Blackshear and slap it on Pacheco.

 

[32prosper]

Agree. Should take their scholarships away.

 

[RUScrew85]

Bailed on their teammates, Art Sitkowski and Raheem Blackshear, what a pair of gutless,craven, selfcentered losers, they should have their scholarships stripped from them and never be allowed back into any of the facilities. Your teammates are out there doing their best, and all you're doing is thinking about yourself. Feckless, selfish, thoughtless, weak, disloyal, two-faced, treacherous, unreliable, faithless, perfidious, deceitful: there aren't enough words in the English language to describe your pathetic abandonment of your team and your brothers in arms. You should be ashamed to ever put on Rutgers gear again.

I wish I could like this twice. Even if they stay they are dead to me.

 

[jsol_05]

Bailed on their teammates, Art Sitkowski and Raheem Blackshear, what a pair of gutless,craven, selfcentered losers, they should have their scholarships stripped from them and never be allowed back into any of the facilities. Your teammates are out there doing their best, and all you're doing is thinking about yourself. Feckless, selfish, thoughtless, weak, disloyal, two-faced, treacherous, unreliable, faithless, perfidious, deceitful: there aren't enough words in the English language to describe your pathetic abandonment of your team and your brothers in arms. You should be ashamed to ever put on Rutgers gear again.

Business decision, I don’t have a problem with it

 

[colbert17]

Business decision, I don’t have a problem with it

Business? Art thinking about his NFL career?
If you don't want to play leave the team. You can't get all the perks of being a scholarship athlete and if healthy not play the game.

 

[graystork]

Torn on this one. The team used to come first. But today apparently not. If I'm looking out for myself and my career I redshirt. This just isn't the way players used to operate. But now we've got players sitting out bowl games.

 

[DennisHajekRC84]

Torn on this one. The team used to come first. But today apparently not. If I'm looking out for myself and my career I redshirt. This just isn't the way players used to operate. But now we've got players sitting out bowl games.

IF you want to accept that way of thinking and character. Taking 1 step back at a time is usually how one finds themselves in reverse.

 

[RU_Planning]

Not for nothing but the whole college football reality is perverse. A coach that sucks (Ash) gets paid millions even after getting fired. I’m not going to sweat kids making decisions that they feel are in their best interest.

 

[retired711]

They can be thrown off the team but, as I posted on another thread, B1G rules say they keep their scholarships anyway so long as they are in good academic standing.

 

[Abro1975]

They can be thrown off the team but, as I posted on another thread, B1G rules say they keep their scholarships anyway so long as they are in good academic standing.

Doesn't seem like they will be attending RU more than this semester.

 

[retired711]

Doesn't seem like they will be attending RU more than this semester.

Yes, but they have their scholarships until they leave (and they could conceivably stay for the spring and keep their scholarships for that term too), and they can get scholarships at other B1G schools.

 

[R1776U]

yank em!!!! screw those traitors

 

[Rutgers36]

Leave now

 

[Caliknight]

Agree. Should take their scholarships away.

They are saying they don’t want the scholarship. They quit.

 

[R1776U]

They are saying they don’t want the scholarship. They quit.

that's why we take em away and boot their asses to the curb

 

[BABYBULL24]

Uh...don't think you can redshirt after 4 games...so would guess they quit the team?

 

[DennisHajekRC84]

Redshirting I think requires mutual coach and player consent. I don't think,you get an automatic 5th year scholarship.
I also believe B1G doesn't allow internal transfer without 2 year wait. No?

 

[SheaWasBetter]

No coaches left to curse so now you go after the players. Spanky, it is only a game. We aren't in the military trying to defeat isis and seeing soldiers leaving a gun fight from fear. The players reacted to a bad situation Hobbs put them in.

Agree. It’s troubling and sad to see a moderator of all people using this board to attack college kids.

Edit: I just found this in the rules section of the site:

No attacks on players or coaches. Criticism is allowed, and encouraged if the shoe fits. But that does NOT mean you have free range to bash or alienate a player or coach with your comments. If you disagree with how they played or the effort they put forward, please voice your opinion and state why you hold that opinion. If it's something you would not say to their faces, then don't post it.

 

[colbert17]

Why did Blackshear even suit up? Sitkowski still has a game left and said he would play in an emergency but Blackshear wasn't going to play.
I hope neither one goes on the road.

 

[Scarlet83]

Business decision, I don’t have a problem with it

Because the NFL rewards quitters.

Business decision my ass. You never quit on your teammates. NEVER.

 

[Knightmoves]

Why did Blackshear even suit up? Sitkowski still has a game left and said he would play in an emergency but Blackshear wasn't going to play.
I hope neither one goes on the road.

Good point. Does Art travel with the team to Bloomington this week?

Assume that Blackshear is buh-bye unless he changes his mind.

What a mess.

 

[RutHut]

Every year, I like college sports a little less.

 

[newell138]

Thinking back to the UMass game and how so many of the fanboys were calling carter the next Dan Marino. I get we are so desperate for success but they forgot it was UMass

 

[brookdale-soda]

After thinking more about this, it seems a transfer is eminent with these two. Consider we lost Jackson, Vokolek and Griffin Stewert to transfers. When they jumped ship, who knows who else was on the fence. When this news came in on Ashs firing it becomes a logical choice for a guy that's wavering already. Just a theory but it's making more sense to me now. I wouldn't be surprised if there would have been more if Blacksheer did it earlier in the week. Haes gone unless the new coach can recruit him back.

 

[retired711]

This B1G conference rule strips a transfer of one year of eligibility. That's why Sitkowski and Blackshear are red-shirting this year --to save a year of eligibility. ttps://scarletknights.com/sports/2017/6/11/compliance-transfer-student-athletes-html.aspx

 

[RUskoolie]

Lol at business decision.

Is it always going to be a business decision when people quit? When life throws you a curve, just quit?

New born: too hard, I'll bail on my wife.
Get laid off: think I'll leave my family, can't handle this.
Family member with a disease: don't fight it, just accept your fate and die.

This sucks but it's also teaching these kids valuable life lessons. You cannot just quit every time things don't go your way.

I doubt you see either kid in an RU uniform again and frankly they should be banned from the Hale Center. You're not going to eat our food and workout in our building to go get ready to play for another team, sorry.

 

[jsol_05]

Business? Art thinking about his NFL career?
If you don't want to play leave the team. You can't get all the perks of being a scholarship athlete and if healthy not play the game.

I understand but if you throw him off the team the NCAA would give him a waiver to play without sitting out a year. Six eggs in one hand, a half a dozen in the other. A trust me schools would be calling.

 

[colbert17]

I understand but if you throw him off the team the NCAA would give him a waiver to play without sitting out a year. Six eggs in one hand, a half a dozen in the other. A trust me schools would be calling.

Ok. Let him play somewhere else next week for all it matters. If I'm one of the other guys busting his tail for myself and my team mates I'm not very concerned how many years of eligibility he has left playing at a different school.

 

[bossnj1]

Not for nothing but the whole college football reality is perverse. A coach that sucks (Ash) gets paid millions even after getting fired. I’m not going to sweat kids making decisions that they feel are in their best interest.

Coaches are given the freedom to act in their own best interests, now players are doing the same thing. Nobody is happy with it but I can’t blame them, just as I can’t blame any of the people I mange at work for believing that they are acting in their own best interests. No manager wants to lose a good employee but it happens and you can’t hold it against them even when it turns out to be a bad decision on their part. I give them the same respect for their judgement on their own situation as I would want from them if the situation were reversed.

 

[bossnj1]

I understand Art’s actions a bit more than I understand Blackshear. As a pocket QB Art has to be wary of the new coach’s offensive philosophy because he could quickly be the odd man out. A talented running back need not worry about offensive philosophy as they can be valuable in any system.

 

[MadRU]

To bail on your team just before game time after practicing all week and game plan in place is the real kicker.