Rabalais: With 'protect the team' line, O 'fumbled' chance to denounce domestic violence

You think these egomaniacs (coaches) are going to always do what the PR dept. says? . You can tell them to do something but they’re going to do what they want almost every single time.

The content sucks, br media is soft as fricking dough and as fake as cnn

well "if" it didnt happen O really doeant need to address it. addressing it just magnifies the situation for drake

They are definitely soft... I know for a fact they all knew about the Orgeron-Canada physical altercation last year, but not a single one reported on it or even asked Orgeron/Canada/Alleva about it.

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Also his article looks stupid now that he allegations were false.

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I’m asking this seriously...does retracting your statement mean it’s not true? Can’t they still move forward with charges if there is evidence of something happening? She could have made it up and be a crazy cleat chaser or Drake could be a bit of a pos that hits women. She could have been offered money or some other persuasion to retract. Women retracting statements doesn’t automatically mean it was false. Just saying. Anyone here know Drake personally? Know his reputation? What a terrible position to be put in if he did nothing wrong. Just one of the most slanderous things you can label someone with. Hope it’s not true

Could they move on? Yes they could but good luck beating a LSU provided defense attorney when she won’t particpate. A good lawyer would shred any other witness.

Also you have to take into account DAs don’t want to lose their conviction rate so this will go away shortly.

For LSU football purposes a retraction should be treated as it was all false, rather we paid her or not.

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Kudos go out to LSU's PR Dept., for not coaching up O on exactly what to say (or not to say). Esp. taking into account his "experience" with the subject matter at hand.

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O handled this properly. The player is suspended. It is a legal matter. O does not report to Rabalais - and Rabalais has not had one good thing to say about this program so far this year.


Rabalais is trying to make a story out of the fact that O would not give him a story to write about by answering questions. This is not an urban meyer situation. The department handled it properly and the last thing we need is a salty journalist trying to create more distractions for this program.

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I actually thought Rabalais was a bit too harsh on Orgeron for this

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Agree with this. O went out of his way with the team to make players realize what an issue this is.

In addition, you don't just start hammering your players until the facts are in. This women recanted her story before Rabalais' article was in print.