re: Alternative/intuitive suspension for Mathieu

HB has a special place in so many people's hearts

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Put a microphone in his face and Mathieu tenses. He fidgets and avoids eye contact, leaving thoughts unfinished and sentences incomplete. He speaks in a muted monotone. Stops, starts, stutters. The most visible player in college football, a spotlight-hogging iconoclast, works hard to reveal little.



It's a contradiction, but hardly the only one for the LSU cornerback. Duality, for Mathieu, is definition. He's overrated...yet underappreciated. He's cocky...but riddled with self-doubt. He's too small ... and proof that size matters little. He's the most important player in the SEC ... but not even the best cornerback on his own team. He's a reckless gambler whose lack of discipline hurts his team ... and a game-changing playmaker his team could not live without. He's a T-shirt-slogan-ready national brand ... and a young man struggling for identity. He might not be the game's best player. But he is fodder for its best debate: Is Mathieu worthy of all the attention?

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Can't play with fire like that. Nip it in the bud at the begining of fall camp

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Damn sure can't have it blowing up during the season.

he fricked up. he's paying the consequences. dearly. he lost millions. he's lost playing for a national title contender. in the long run, LSU is probably better off without him. he was becoming a cancer.

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I'm not one to whole-heartedly buy into the ESPN conspiracy theories

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It's not a conspiracy, ESPN runs college football now.

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He got kicked out of school.

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I thought it was an Athletic Dept policy that on third offense you are kicked from team and lose scholly. This is what happened to Tyrann. I don't think he was kicked out of the university. I have seen no reports that says he was.

He is an addict. Didn't matter how many chances you gave him he was going to keep smoking. He knew it was bad, but like an alcoholic he was going to keep doing it. LSU reached a point where they had to say "Enough is enough."

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If it was just weed, I would think Les would give him a little more rope

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I tend to think his problems are beyond weed.

Cocaine and Heroin usage have been mentioned as possibilities..

These are addictive drugs....Is weed addictive? I have no idea..

speculation all the way around

This is like mandatory sentencing in legal system.
You get more than one chance but if you become a repeat offender then you get the boot. If we don't like the rule ie pot not big deal then we need to change the rules. I agree if we checked all the players in college football for pot usage probably would find high percentage of users. If we tested for alcohol usage would be extremely high but alcohol is legal that is if you not driving and not under age.
With the quality play and ability of TM7 i am sure the coaches gave him every opportunity to comply. Since he didn't i think Miles had no other choice.