Football players at Texas A&M University at Commerce are the main suspects in the theft of last Wednesday’s issue of The East Texan, the student newspaper, from campus racks, and their coach is pleased with their effort. “I am proud of my players for doing that,” the coach, Guy Morriss, told an investigating officer, according to a police report quoted by The Battalion, the student paper at A&M’s flagship in College Station. “This was the best team building exercise we have ever done,” he said. The issue taken from the racks had reported the arrests of two football players on drug charges.
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Must be all the mud on their football field. I think I still have a shoe stuck in their somewhere…
Muddles the thinking, I mean. Clearly it muddled my spelling ability since I can’t tell the difference between their and there.
Great job coach, NOT!!! What a sorrid example you are for the players and your university. Have you no integrity or ethics? Stealing is wrong and your attitude condones it and not even for a worthwhile reason (say because there was an earthquake and nothing available to eat). The coach should be fired – no ifs, ands or buts.
I am, unfortunately, familiar with this mentality among football and basketball coaches and athletes and it is no longer surprising.
Guy Morriss has made a bad situation worse. He should be fired.
Hmmmm. I wonder if this guy also supports the jocks bringing firearms to the locker room? I agree with paulaelliott and tridaddy — this idiot should be fired…and the college needs to wise up.
Mr. Morriss must have a defective moral compass, or perhaps he is just preparing his charges for a career on Wall Street.
I would like to applaud the paper and it’s writers for bringing the truth to it’s readers. Obviously, they have more work to do on this story. Guy Morriss took advantage of a situation that brought his team closer, which every coach fights and strives to achieve. However, condoning the use of illegal drugs and the theft of other’s property and hard work is what he has achieved through his blindness. Poor choice. Dock his pay for the price of the paper, ink, and man hours it took to write, type set, run the press and deliver this paper.
This story brings to mind the old joke: “What’s an academic’s definition of a good coach? Smart enough to win; dumb enough to think it matters.”
The official statement from the university president has spun this as a lame attempt at humor by the coach. Morriss clearly meant what he said even if he has since apologized. As an aside, Morriss was touted in the June 30, 2009 edition of the alumni magazine the Pride by no less than Caleb Slinkard, who also wrote for The East Texan. Slinkard was an honors student and, like Morriss, another favorite whom was marketed as an “ideal” by the university in their promotional materials – including the Pride which featured an article about him and an interview with his mother. Slinkard was arrested within months for theft as part of a student crime ring.