Reports coming today that FSU Compliance is investigating the substantial number of autographed items authenticated by the autograph dealer linked to suspended Georgia running back Todd Gurley.
This comes on the heels of the news that Winston will be facing an ad hoc hearing to determine whether he violated the school's code of student conduct in relation to an alleged sexual assault in December 2012. This in turns follows a Fox Sports report that FSU university officials and Tallahassee police hampered the investigation into the December 2012 incident by, among other things, providing police reports to university athletic officials and Winston's attorney days before the reports were provided to the local prosecutor.Fisher then told reporters he wasn't concerned that an autograph authentication business, which recently was linked to suspended Georgia running back Todd Gurley, also was linked to Winston.
James Spence Authentication certified more than 500 autographs of Gurley, who is being investigated for allegedly taking money for signings.
A cursory search on JSA's website found more than 340 certified Winston autographs.
Also this week the New York Times reviewed the sometimes checkered relationship between FSU football and Tallahassee criminal justice.
So...all that is happening.When Jesus (Bobo) Wilson, an up-and-coming wide receiver, was stopped by the Tallahassee police in June while riding a stolen Bintelli Sprint motor scooter, his story was dubious: He claimed he had borrowed it from a student whose last name he did not know. But for Officer Michael Petroczky, it was convincing enough to forestall an arrest.
The officer, noting in his report that Mr. Wilson was a Florida State football player, wrote: “Wilson was not arrested today because he cooperated, showed no signs of guilt and provided a plausible story that needs to be investigated.”
According to the scooter’s owner, Mr. Wilson’s football connections weighed heavily on the case. After letting Mr. Wilson go, the officer arranged to meet the owner, a Florida State student, in a campus parking lot at night and “questioned if I was mentally stable or if I had forgotten that I lent him the scooter,” the student said in an email interview. The officer seemed deeply reluctant to charge Mr. Wilson, saying he did not want his name on the arrest report, according to the student.
“He told me that he had not arrested Wilson because he was a football player, and he did not want to ‘ruin’ his record by arresting him” if there was a chance he might be innocent, the student wrote.
I'm generally opposed to paying college athletes but football is a vastly different than basketball. Gurley and Winston, like Manziel last year, had already proven themselves to the NFL at least a year before their third season. Those guys could really only hurt their draft stock by playing an additional year of college. Likewise for Clowney last year. Marcus Lattimore may very well have suffered a career ending injury his junior year. I think it's just a matter of time before guys like Clowney or Gurley sit out the third year, sign some endorsement deals and wait for the draft. Rules are rules so Gurley and possibly Winston should suffer the consequences but I think the courts should really be looking at the NFL and NBA for anti-trust violations more so than the NCAA.
They got Al Capone on tax evasion, not the St Valentines Day massacre
Go for it
When coupled with the list found in Duvall's post, last year's assault accusation, and the crab misplacement, Winston's issues are an athletic Pollock painting: Where does it begin and end? Which stroke was the tipping point? Where does one focus their eye? How did it get so big?
Winston also tends to remind me of Murphy's murder in Robocop. Watching the scene play out, the shots just keep coming, the kill shot seems to happen over and over again, yet Murphy survives, he perseveres, until being encased in the protective shell of his helmet, torso protector, powerful boots with grips on the bottom, and the awe-inspiring weapon found in his arm.
Everyone in the film rooted for Robocop, willingly excusing his violent assaults and thoughtless actions, so long as at the end, the corrupt, and heartless all-powering corporation could remain in control.
Winston obviously never took any money for signatures. The poor guy has to shoplift crab legs to eat, for Pete's sake.
Manziel helped build the foundation for this house of autographed cards... Players should be able to profit from their likenesses while in college.
He also has to supplement his diet with squirrel meat:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...et-gun-in-2012
And steal soda from Burger King:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/co...icle-1.1801658
Poor fella.
Jesus "Bobo" Wilson is quite a name.
So...
Now that it has come to light that FSU was likely complicit in a degree of covering up Mr. Winston's transgressions... there will be an internal disciplinary hearing at FSU? Are they going to slap him on the wrist for (among a laundry list of other things)... allowing the school to perform a cover up?
This is turning into a really sordid mess.
Nah. No chance. But, if we were to suddenly find out he was not attending his upper level seminar classes and/or having someone compose his end-of-semester paper, then, and only then might we have a (potentially) serious problem.
Couldn't possibly happen. Or could it?
[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.
What is, FSU will get off scott-free, duh? I'll take Scandalicious Football Cover-ups for $800, Alex.
Used to be Free Shoe U. Now it's Free Snowcrab U...
Or For-pay Signing U