Nick Weatherspoon arrested for DUI

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Nice job

 

[fishwater99]

Front page of C-L tomorrow?

 

[11thEagleFan]

No doubt.

A Program Out of Control: Mississippi State in Crisis Mode

 

[Indndawg]

Stupid look for Spoon

Nice job

but its not like that never happens in a college town to NCAA players.

 

[TrueMaroonGrind]

Such a dumb move. On another completely unrelated note, Starkville needs Uber.

 

[MaroonCrusader]

Very stupid to get a DUI, but really, why doesn't Starkville have Uber yet? It can't be because of the cab companies because there are barely any there.

 

[Indndawg]

Prolly need to ask S'ville's citizenry who still rapture in their flip phones and gee whiz bang dial up interwebs

 

[MaroonCrusader]

Starkville is the only SEC town that does not have Uber.

 

[57stratdawg]

Oh well. Can't wait to watch him play at MSU

 

[Dawgs'n'Grizz]

I think the Uber situation may be a lack of demand in the eyes of Uber. The Cotton District is within walking distance to a large number of people so that wouldn't get Uber a ton of business. Plus, Starkville is such a small area they would struggle to find drivers because the rides would be pretty cheap.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

Oops. That is a double no no. Under age drinking and a dui.**

Saw where someone said if he blew under .08, they will do it as unadjudicated. Not sure about that because Mississippi has ZERO tolerance on underage drinking and then add DUI. 1 beer is a no no for underage when driving. Looks like we need to hire an athletic "social life" counselor to the staff.**

 

[The Peeper]

I hear there's one available that has Haitian connections and likes to minister to youngsters

 

[Wizard of bulldogery]

gotta be under .08 pleads guilty... then attends driving school pays small fine and it is over... doesn't show up on record but if you do it again within 5 years or some time frame like that you will be punished as if you've had 2 DUIs

 

[KurtRambis4]

Great.

The idiots that were going ballistic over firing Stans (since 2004) have permanently hexed our basketball program. Thanks a lot.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Having Uber

would probably eliminate about 0.005% of this....

 

[maroonmania]

After the Kylin Hill incident and now this with Weatherspoon, maybe we shouldn't allow true freshman athletes to drive at all.**

 

[bulldogbaja]

Are you sure about that?
Anyway with all of Uber's troubles right now I'm not sure they're expanding anywhere at the moment. There are a lot of analysts who think they won't last much longer. They successfully monetized their idea, but they still are losing money at an insane rate. Ditching the founder and CEO probably helped with investors though.
But I digress.

 

[KentuckyDawg13]

A lot of schools follow that protocol.

After the Kylin Hill incident and now this with Weatherspoon, maybe we shouldn't allow true freshman athletes to drive at all.**

 

[ShrubDog]

The year 2040 can't get here fast enough. DUI's will be extinct due to self driving cars.

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

Even the great Joe Kane turned in his keys during the season... #kaneisable

 

[Del B Vista]

Wiggins has Uber.

 

[AssEndDawg]

would probably eliminate about 0.005% of this....

Curious why you think this? Among our group of friends here in Memphis we have all given our teenage kids access to Uber and it has been wildly successful. The kids don't want to get a DUI, they have no problem with the concept of ride-sharing, it's been a really good thing for us. Doubt it would cut out 100%, but it definitely helps. The adults also use it, if we are going to a party where we know we are gonna drink we Uber instead of driving. You know its gonna be a good party when you pull up in a line of Ubers and there are no parked cars....

 

[Junction John]

I thought anyone could sign up to be a driver?

I admit with the relative close proximity of bars, walking and biking, there's probably a lack of demand, but I thought part of the brilliance of Uber and Lyft was basically the crowdsourcing of labor.

Seems like there would be at least a few students who sign up to be drivers, then just turn their apps on and get paid to drive drunkards home when they don't have anything else to do. They don't make you have a certain number of hours or anything - you just drive when it's convenient for you and you only get paid during that time.

What would it cost Uber to "be in Starkville"? Whatever little time to vet the driver applicants, but not much more. What am I missing?

 

[KurtRambis4]

From my

experiences, most college age kids that drive drunk don't really care.

It's not as if they're sitting there drunk, and thinking man I wish I had another way home, but I guess I'll have to drive.

They're more like "Hey, y'all wanna go to late night!? Jump in, I'll drive!!!"

 

[DancingRabbit]

If they'd only had Uber service out to Len Lews back in the day.

nm

 

[Junction John]

Another thought: if I were AD, I'd make one person from each athletic staff sign up as an Uber driver.

Should be part of the job description in one of the admin positions. They would be getting paid for their time. Just have to make sure the student athlete paid for the ride...

 

[sandwolf.sixpack]

experiences, most college age kids that drive drunk don't really care.

It's not as if they're sitting there drunk, and thinking man I wish I had another way home, but I guess I'll have to drive.

They're more like "Hey, y'all wanna go to late night!? Jump in, I'll drive!!!"

Your experiences have been much different than mine. When I was in school people drove drunk because it was nearly impossible to get a cab (and even if you got one to come, somebody else would grab it) and their only other option was to walk.

 

[rem101]

If freshmens can't drive, how would we recruit them without buying cars?**

 

[Daddy Rabbit Dawg]

nm

If only kids today could have experienced the awesomeness that was Sunday afternoons at The Landing (or probably Triangle Club for you).

 

[johnson86-1]

Your experiences have been much different than mine. When I was in school people drove drunk because it was nearly impossible to get a cab (and even if you got one to come, somebody else would grab it) and their only other option was to walk.

Same here. You'd see people wait an hour for a cab before deluding themselves into thinking they had sobered up enough to drive. At least a couple of fraternities or more made their pledges take turns being designated driver. Lots of people crashed at places within walking distance of the cotton district, etc.

If it's anything like other university towns and Uber, you'd see drivers drive from Tupelo, Columbus, Memphis, etc. to come cash in football weekends. Not sure how it's not in Starkville.

 

[TrueMaroonGrind]

would probably eliminate about 0.005% of this....

Completely incorrect. The number of DUI's has drastically dropped since ride sharing apps have become mainstream.

TDOT did a study last year of all of Tennessee's big city's. I don't remember the number's but the DUIs dropped more than I expected them to.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I'm just trying

to think of the # of times in college after the bar or late nights I saw buddies drive off, that were clearly thinking at the time, and it was probably very minimal.

 

[The Peeper]

Thursday nights @ The Landing, The Club, or a late night/early morning @ Macs Supper Club listening to him sing Roberta Roberta

 

[tbaydog]

nm

Back in the day, late 70's, I worked at one of the joints at Crossroads. I had 2 roommates that separately came out on the day I was working. 1st one showed up at noon, left around 4, pulled over and of course to the City Country Club. 2nd one, extremely wealthy, drove a new candy apple red Vet. He arrived around 3 and departed around 6ish. I get a call around 6 from the Jail, its my roommate, asked to get ahold of our other roommate, the wealthy one to come bail him out.

Now where it get funny, my Vet roommate ( he always very cocky ) gets pullover in Starkville and the officer asked him had he been drinking, and asked what is in the brown bag on the front seat. My cocky buddy says, I don't know, why don't you look in the bag for yourself. Officer takes bag out of car and sets on top of fiberglass top. My buddy quote " I advise you to take that off my fiberglass top. Officer to my buddy, " I advise you to Spread Eagle." Off to jail they go.

As all this is transpiring, first buddy passes out in the drunk tank. 2nd buddy is being processed and put in the same tank. First buddy hears someone in there with him, looks up sees his roommate and says, man I'm so glad you and to bail me out. He says sorry, I'm joining you.

City of Starkville only accepted cash or checks from local banks for bail at this time. I'm the only one that had a city checking account, and I get the call from them to come bail out. Yes, the 7 hundred and some odd dollar check was worthless. By 10 the next morning the money miraculously appeared in my account to cover....

 

[WrapItDog]

Wiggins has Uber.

Uber is also in Tupelo, Fulton, Booneville, Corinth, Pontotoc, Calhoun City and New Albany. I can't imagine that the Uber demand in Calhoun City is higher than Starkville.