FSU's Bowden declines to suspend players.

[Eison]

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Originally posted by Andy Gardiner@ USA TODAY

Two star Florida State linebackers will start against Miami (Fla.) in the opener Sept. 5 despite unresolved legal issues and two redshirt freshmen quarterbacks might play, coach Bobby Bowden said Monday.

"There's more ways to discipline than a dadgum suspension," Bowden said at the Atlantic Coast Conference media day in his first extended comments of the summer. "You all have heard of physical pain, haven't you? That's our method."

A.J. Nicholson was charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest without violence after an incident in June, and Ernie Sims was charged with misdemeanor domestic battery and resisting arrest without violence after an argument with his girlfriend in July. Prosecutors have not decided whether to proceed.

"If it's a misdemeanor, (punishment) is in my hands, but I've got to find out what's their final verdict," Bowden said. "To say we don't discipline just because I don't suspend them, so I can be like everybody else ... I ain't interested in being like everybody else."

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[Newk]

He may catch a lot of hell for this one.

 

[Eison]

Originally posted by Newk
He may catch a lot of hell for this one.

I think so too and it won't be the first or last time with that for him.

On the one hand I agree with him, there are ways to punish players so that they will regret their misbehavior without a suspension. Anybody who's played a form of organized HS or higher sport can tell you that and mean it.

But that's for cutting class or falling asleep in meetings and other **** like that. When there are criminal charges filed, it needs to go deeper than that to protect the rep of the league, the school and the program.

 

[Guest]

He be scared of the mighty Canes.

 

[Ron]

you gotta love a legend that still uses dadgum in his vocabulary