UPDATE: NBC4 has issued a correction on their original story, while Tressel said the report is "inaccurate".
NBC4 is reporting Buckeye defenders Storm Klein and Nathan Williams have been charged with misdemeanor assault stemming from an incident early Sunday morning.
Officers were dispatched to Riverside Methodist Hospital on an assault report at about 4:17 a.m. The 20-year-old victim said he was at a birthday party his friend threw for him at a house off East 15th Avenue. The victim said he woke up and found two people harassing his girlfriend. He said he told the two males to stop. The victim said the males knocked him to the ground and began punching him. The victim suffered a cut under his right eye, and the injury required stitches.
If true, this would be a second strike of sorts for Williams, who was arrested for shoplifting as a freshman in December of 2008.
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"Woke up to find" sounds like he was hammered and made up a quick "defending my GF's honor" excuse for getting in a fight. It was HIS bday...come on, 9/10, or maybe 99/100 times that means he was talking shit and got his face shined up.
Something seems fishy here.
The victim was at a birthday party for him, and "woke up" to find two people harassing his girlfriend.
So, he passed out at his own party, came to, and found two football players hitting on his girlfriend. He "asked them to stop" and then got in a fight with them, and got a shot to the eye.
I doubt this is even truly misdimeanor assault, and wouldn't make the news except it might have been a fight with a football player.
Dammit....I was just singing this Williams' praises in the Defensive Line thread. Now he's involved in this? Goodness gracious, you have NFL caliber talent! Awful!
I would love for a season to come and go without some incident like this, or academic issues. Just another reminder we are dealing with kids and kids will make some damn stupid decisions. I know I did.
I know that kids will be kids.... but C'mon. Don't these 2 realize that they are starters on a Potential Natl championship team??? Especially Williams, who was given a 2nd chance by Tress...... The story here does seem to be somewhat incomplete--so let's wait and get the entire story.
Um Storm Klein is our 5th linebacker. Semantics I know, but it is important. I think we need to withhold judgement at least until Tress speaks later today or more details come out.
Nathan Williams = Ray Small 2.0?
My prediction is that this kid turns out to be a drunken instigator and Nate and Storm stupidly took the bait. I think this was a fight, not a one-sided beatdown. Both players are suspended for the Marshall game. Depending on the severity of the fight, they may also be suspended for the Miami game.
Solomon Thomas' time to shine?
Let's just tell him that each game is actually the spring game, and he'll lay down at least half a dozen sacks
So how does he get knocked down by a DE and a LB and punched multiple times and only suffer a cut under his eye?
Just hope he goes all GRRR SOLOMON GRUNDY rather than GRR SOLOMON THOMAS
Likely mutual combatants. Id be curious to hear from Klein and Williams. I bet the truth lies somewhere in between.
"I think this was a fight, not a one-sided beatdown."
Not if both of them were beating on him. I hope that wasn't the case.
Nathan Williams is as good as gone.
Not quite... at least not until Williams' father starts getting involved and accuses Tressel of trying to ruin his son's football career.
Well f*ck...
I can't find any local stories on this and the link is now dead. Was this premature (one hopes)?
Jumping to conclusions is the best, and I am very good at it
I was thinking the same thing. More likely they stood up and he fell down trying to get away. Who knows? Interesting the police report doesn't mention names.
I blame Maurice.
My exact thoughts.
From Ken Gorden:
http://blog.dispatch.com/bucke...
On an unrelated subject, Dick Rod showed in today's Big 10 presser that he still doesn't understand the Ohio State - Michigan rivalry:
Not surprisingly, Rodriguez was asked a lot about division alignment in the Big Ten and where Michigan and Ohio State should fall. His position: the Ohio State game must be played; he's not overly concerned about when it's played; the possibility of playing the Buckeyes twice in a season could be really exciting for the fans.
way to jump the gun.
Tressel literally just got done saying that the game didn't have to be played during the last week of the season.
Then I can only conclude that Tressel has been compromised by the one they call the "Delaney," and I must now reanimate the corpse of Woody Hayes to defeat this capitalistic money grab and save Ohio State tradition for all time.
Or it doesn't matter that much as long as the game is played.
50/50
If you add alcohol and testosterone to a late night party, this sh*t happens.
I couldn't disagree more, and that is precisely why the conference realignment never sat well with me. It diminishes Ohio State and Michigan at the expense of elevating the conference. But I submit to you that Ohio State and Michigan are the conference.
Say we play Michigan first game of the conference schedule. We go into it 4-0, they go into it 4-0. We win, they lose. We are 5-0, they are 4-1. But we've still got to play 7 or so more games. There is no sense of drama or build-up. No sense of repeat history, meeting on the field in the cold of November. As pointed out in the HBO special on the rivalry, the greatest traditions in culture occur at the same time each year, and you develop a sense memory of that time. Playing Michigan in September is going to be like celebrating Christmas in July. It just won't feel wrong. It'll feel like wrong-sounding muppets sound.
I think it's academic, however. If Bama and Auburn can maintain the Iron Bowl, I'm confident OSU-UM will do the same.
How does it diminish Ohio State and Michigan? The game is still played. The conference championship (or a shot at it) will still be on the line. Even more so, perhaps, since the fate of neither team has been sealed by losses earlier in the season. Both teams will have elite-level players, elite coaches, and all the tradition they've always had.
Woody is dead. Bo is dead. If November is really that important to you, I think you're kinda missing the point and just looking for things to anger you.
My guess is they were showing her the Eiffel Tower.
It needs to be the last game of the REGULAR season and there can't be a rematch a week or two later.
I agree with Poe -- last game of the regular season, and they should not meet in a rematch.
Sam, moving the Game doesn't anger me, it saddens me. This is abotu depriving past and future generations of fans, from both sides of the state line, of coming together at or around the same time, to celebrate the late fall spectacle and pageantry. All of that is lost if we move the Game away from its traditional date.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
If that doesn't explain it to you, then nothing will.
If there is no more compelling argument for keeping the game date the same than screaming TRADITION at the top of one's lungs, then I'll side with Tressel and Rich Rod on this one.
I get it Sam, I know by now, from reading your commentary as Pogue Mahone before 11W blew up, from your comments on MGoBlog and other Big 10 sites, from your former SB Nation blog, and now from your time at 11W, that being contrarian is your shtick, the thing that you you do to set yourself apart from others. We'll have to agree to disagree. But the notion that tradition does not matter in college football -- where it matters more than perhaps in any other level of sport -- is completely nonsensical.
It's not that "tradition doesn't matter", it's that invoking tradition to argue against something as utterly meaningless as a game date rings hollow.
I prefer it be the last game of the year but am more anti-rematch possibility than anything. The appealing thing, to me at least, about it being the last regular season game is the sheer prospect of it being a conference semi-final of sorts if certain things play out. Plenty of other great rivalries aren't the last game and have survived though. The only thing I could see cheapening the rivalry would be the prospects of an immediate rematch the following week. If the league is hell bent on putting the schools in opposite divisions, they might as well move it.
I once was walking to class on a Friday (shocking, I know) near Schoenbaum and eavesdropped a sorostitute on the phone say "You won't believe what I walked in on in Lindsay's room last night... Well... have you ever heard of an Eiffel Tower?" Go Bucks!
why...he did nothing story has been pulled can you say KNEE JERK reaction
I smell a most worthy 11W poll question.
And is not Oasis the greatest British band since the Beatles? Can we not vote on this?
Exactly. The rematch would be lame. The Game not being the last week of the season is far less egregious than that.
It's almost worthy of a post in and of itself. I'm off this week unfortunately.
As for the latter, Radiohead, son. Though Buckeye Sport Bulletin's Adam Jardy loves him some Oasis and will probably fight you to the death if you speak ill of the Brothers Gallagher.
Is someone actually saying that Oasis is the best british band since the Beatles? HELLO Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd!
*HIGH FIVE*
lol @ the link name. "no charges filed in ass" heheh
Sorry, immature moment. :P
You guys give me no credit. It's an obscure reference to an even obscurer mid-1990s SNL skit with the British Parliament and Mike Meyers/Will Ferrell.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/9...
Ken Gordon's SEO comedic genius.
http://skreened.com/11w/free-m...
+1 I withdrawal my earlier contempt at said gentleman!
Is OU/Texas diminshed by playing it early? I truly believe they'll never change the date of the game. Those 2 schools have more of a fan base and draw more attention to the conference than any other fan bases in the country. Anyway, I don't feel it would be a tragedy to play it on a different day.
Secondly, Michigan has diminished the rivalry more than any other factor. They have put together 2 season back to back that have been absolutely awful, while Ohio State has stayed dominant. Michigan will probably put up another bad year diminishing it more. As Long as Michigan is irrelvant, America doesn't care about Ohio State/Michigan, and scheduling could be affected.
I am so getting the "I heart JT"
All the kid did was try to get them away from his girlfriend and they sock him right in the face. I have heard some other stories about these kids that have not gotten reported.