The official Twitter.com account of Univ. of Oregon football posted a message Wednesday reporting that Jeremiah Masoli has been kicked off the Ducks football team.
QB Jeremiah Masoli has been dismissed from the Oregon Football program effective immediately.
Oregon Football Coach Chip Kelly said of his decision:
“I had a plan in place for him to follow and if he didn’t follow it, he was gone. He didn’t follow it, so he’s gone.”
“There was no guarantee he was going to be back for the 2010 season.”
A possible replacement for Masoli at quarterback for the Ducks in sophomore Darron Thomas. George Schroeder of the EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD reports today that Thomas was with Masoli when the police incident took place: “Quarterback Darron Thomas was a passenger, but was not cited.”
Kelly told Schroeder that Thomas will not be punished: “Darron wasn’t charged with anything.”
Jack Moran of the EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD reported earlier today on more possible legal trouble for Masoli.
Suspended University of Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli is again in trouble with the law after a Springfield police officer stopped his vehicle and cited him Monday night on charges of possessing less than one ounce of marijuana, driving with a suspended license and failure to stop at a driveway or a sidewalk.
Masoli is scheduled to appear in Springfield Municipal Court on June 24, a court spokeswoman said.
The PORTLAND OREGONIAN reports that Masoli was “arrested” by Springfield police at the time, but it is not known if the Oregon QB was taken into custody.
The Monday arrest comes three months after a Masoli guilty plea to misdemeanor burglary in an Oregon courtroom on March 12.
In addition to being suspended from the Ducks football team for a year, he was sentenced at that time to a year probation, 140 hours of community service and restitution of stolen property.
2:52 pm on June 9th, 2010
Is it now safe to assume that the Ducks don’t recruit character?
3:04 pm on June 9th, 2010
I am flabbergasted that he wasn’t already “kicked off,” thanks to his larceny escapade.
3:08 pm on June 9th, 2010
No, it’s not. At least the Ducks swiftly took appropriate action. If this had been USC, A Trojan supporter would have hired an attorney for him, replaced his stash, and bought him a fake driver’s license.
4:17 pm on June 9th, 2010
What a crock of shit!! DWB is more like it. Failure to stop at a damn driveway? Give me a break. They would have never found the pot or known he had a suspended license had they they not found cause to stop him.. Driving while Black…for sure.
4:28 pm on June 9th, 2010
Boo hoo Im black. All your problems are because everyone is racist. Please, time to take responsability for your own actions.
5:16 pm on June 9th, 2010
DK is exactly right! I bet the cops were targeting him when he was arrested and convicted for armed robbery and even the frat house thievery just because of the color of his skin!! Poor guy’s life is completely off track because of racist cops!
DWB definitely happens but throwing it out there indiscriminately downplays the seriousness of when it actually does happen. Save the racially charged rants for the real racially motivated actions by bad cops.
5:43 pm on June 9th, 2010
Masoli is samoan, not black
8:03 pm on June 9th, 2010
Hey D.K. maybe he wouldn’t have been arrested if he wasn’t a “pothead”?! Maybe you get targeted if you were previously arrested for STEALING!!!!!!!!!!Maybe he’s a thug and belongs in prison?!
12:07 am on June 10th, 2010
By the way, Anonymous, every one else here has a name attached to their post. It would be a good idea for you to post your name on here as well.
Ms. King and you apparently like to react to things without really reading the story and knowing the details. As geshie wrote, Masoli is of Samoan decent. Samoan does not mean he is black.
This wasn’t about driving while black. Masoli made the decision to ignore the rules that were in place for him by driving around with pot in his possession.
I’m black and I have enough common sense to know that Masoli has screwed whatever opportunity he had to continue playing football at Oregon.
It’s a privilege, not a right.
12:37 am on June 10th, 2010
Typical Ducks. The JailDucks bringing more grief to the school. I am surprised that Phil Knight just did not pay off the police there.
Hey Masoli, ask Herman Ho-Ching how is career went after choosing the hippie lettuce over football. Or the Wizzinator.
How Ducks prepare for games: getting high on the tree.
1:12 pm on June 10th, 2010
R.H. - I am the anonoymous poster in this case and I am aware of the facts in this situation and completely agree with you. The sarcasm did not translate in my post.
3:27 am on June 11th, 2010
Well, it goes to show you that regardless of what level of sports u are at, “The Man” is trying to take the control back. Now maybe if blk athlete would find something else to do beside play FB or BB, are even run track, they would be better off. WP want anyone to bring that money in. You have a handful of white athlete out there but not at the level of blks. Maybe if they start paying those athlete, thing might be alittle different. you can talk about this all day, They just takin that “power” back they had lost.
3:44 am on June 11th, 2010
I really don’t care bout what the athletes do but you have to be fare. Yes they go out there and mess up, people do it all the time because you are a athlete that doesn’t mean you don’t get mesmorize with whats going on in the world. Lets look outside of sports, u had the president acting up in the white house, come on now.