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Posted on 12/08/2005 1:51:54 PM PST by rawhide
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The suspension of a high school quarterback for kicking an opposing player was upheld Thursday by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The case captured widespread attention and put the justices in the unusual position of reviewing grainy videotape of the closing seconds of a game between Shawnee and Tulsa Washington.
A lower court had issued a temporary injunction blocking the association that governs high school athletics from enforcing its two-game suspension of Shawnee's Tucker Brown. The state's prep football playoffs had been on hold pending the court's decision.
Oklahoma's highest court threw out that injunction Thursday, ruling the association acted reasonably.
Brown kicked a defender who had jumped over the line of scrimmage, grabbed Brown's helmet and threw him to the ground on Nov. 19.
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled, Shawnee will play Tulsa East Central on Saturday in the Class 5A semifinals with a backup quarterback in place of Brown.
From another news source: Brown, son of Shawnee Coach Billy Brown , was ejected for violating the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association's anti-fighting rule with 19 seconds left in Shawnee's Nov. 19 game in which the Wolves defeated Tulsa Washington, 14-10.
Brown was kneeling in an effort to run out the clock when Washington's Jermaine Holmes jumped over the line of scrimmage, grabbed Brown's helmet and pulled him to the ground. Brown responded by kicking Holmes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/29/AR2005112901402.html
Rough game, Oklahoma high school football
I would have kicked the guy too. That's nonsense.
This has been in our local papers frequently, we are on the Oklahoma border, and I support the suspension.
Two players were ejected. Now one has ended his season with the loss, but the other, the coaches son, quarterback; must take a two game suspension for being ejected. That's the rule, you get ejected from a game, you sit out the next two.
The real question is why do courts even involve themselves in these disputes? The first judge should have thrown it out saying he has no jurisdiction.
What state constitutional right was being violated here that the state court felt they had jurisdiction over decision by an athletic association?
This is why this country is a mess, bit by bit lawyers (aka judges) expand their authority over every bit of our lives.
You don't need to. Organizations should be able to set their own rules without involvement of the courts.
Exactly! I was dismayed that the courts intruded on this issue. The athletic association had this pretty well covered, in my opinion, and the courts should have butted out.
Heh...I'm not native, but I figured it out pretty quick! Then again...I *am* from Texas.
Thank you for your service!
I totally agree with you. No way should the courts be involved in this. We've been sliding into a dictatorship of judges, where judges can rule on their whim. Just look at some of the demented decisions handed down by the courts.
I mean, it's a freaking game, for crying out loud! And every time I say that in public, I get these looks...
I probably get it a little more than most, because I'm a grad student at OU, and soon to be a public school teacher. I got my teaching certificate the other day, did some job-hunting yesterday, and subbed in one of the local elementary schools today, after having been absent myself for most of a week.
Not being for sports of any kind is kind of like sacrilege, here, isn't it? I just think of the money they could spend on more classrooms, and such. (Yes, I suppose I'd be for higher pay for teachers, too...) I have noted that most of the teachers I've met, even the liberals, would qualify as conservative to Howlie Dean, though.
That wouldn't take much.......
My husband is an engineering student at OU, so he understands the sentiment. I remember being gung ho about basketball back in Indiana (where I am from), but even then, it was only a sport and most people could separate the sport from the bigger picture of life.
I'm a homeschooler myself, but my bil is a teacher back in Indianapolis, and he is quite a bit more right-leaning than most teachers (although I see the liberal side fighting to get out of him every so often, lol). It can't be easy to be conservative in the profession.
Good luck to you!
I am in Oklahoma -- he was ejected and then suspended for two games. But why should the coach's son have to abide by the rules? (sarcasm)
I saw the video -- both should have been ejected IMHO!
I couldn't believe it when Shawnee took this to Court and then Governor Sleeps A Lot weighed in favoring Shawnee but then his daughter's go there.
I was shocked when it actually went to Court.
BTTT
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