Whom are you talking about?Nothing ruins a World Cup championship quite like reminding yourself that monster is on the team
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2015 Women's World Cup
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Nothing ruins a World Cup championship quite like reminding yourself that monster is on the team
Hope Solo does have some scary stuff on her but nothing compared to some of the players Jerry Tarkanian brought onto UNLV including players who raped, assaulted, and were charged with attempted murder.
To make matters worse some of these players were awarded degrees for playing and allegedly didn't attend class. How he got the NCAA to agree to these dangerous and proven violent players and how he negotiated their release from prison to the basketball court is a feat in itself. His unorthodox ways built two types of followers where they either worshiped his genius or tried to take him down because he was ruining the sport in their eyes.
Most would be incensed with his choices but others considered him a reformer of kids gone bad who just happened to be a coach.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/tournament/2010/columns/story?id=5045144
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I know that Hope Solo was involved with a home problem, but to relate her to UNLV problems is a stretch.
What I am saying is that what she did was nothing in comparison to what some UNLV players did.
Girl has a few issues and everybody wants to throw her off of a team, but UNLV is all Las Vegas mobster and player convicts and it's OK?
Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson say hi. Same crime. There's a huge double standard. Hope Solo shouldn't have been allowed to play.
Charges were dropped, however, what isn't disputed is that during one incident she assaulted cop. It can be argued that alone warrants suspension. I wouldn't have lost sleep had she been suspended.
There is no doubt that she has serious issues.
These days, fortunately, there are higher standards! I lived in housing that had state university basketball players in the 80's and some of them were thugs. We had to babysit our crack addicted roommate but he was our school's big star.
When Tark was with similar school in California I saw a news show where it alleged he had a player who slit someone's throat and left them for dead, and another of his stars raped a senior citizen but got masters though it was disputed he could have even qualified for undergrad, but such was NCAA sports in California back then or what were zero standards. It may have been that the NCAA and the press were always after Tark but others blame those two and not the coach but Tark got millions in his lawsuit against the NCAA. In the end there was probably enough blame to go around.
Some say this is typical fare for the neighborhoods Tark's players he saved came from. Some will say he saved these kids while others claim scholarships should not be meant as a platform to make known criminals reform. Tark wanted to be a father figure but woe to any professor or school administrator who dared defy him. Mention his name and the facts around him resemble a Sopranos episode. "Loveable mobster" is the best description I can think of.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06...egas-beverly-hills-hotel-organized-crime-link
http://sportzedge.com/2015/02/11/like-most-rebels-jerry-tarkanians-legacy-is-both-laduable-complex/
I guess my views of not seeing Solo as a monster stems from what I have seen but maybe there should be zero tolerance for bad behavior which should include any crime. But Hope Solo doesn't have articles about her that involve dead bodies in trunks of fancy cars in famous unsolved cases. Still so much gets by in "college" ball that makes Solo look tame by comparison. But for Solo we are still talking about a person that is representing an entire country.
I don't have the answer for Solo or if she deserved suspension or deserves to lose her endorsements, but with only so much love for women's soccer it may be Carli LLoyd who is the big endorsement star in advertising and not Solo anymore.
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It is always good if certain people say something bad about dead people. Right!?
That's right if they are dead then they are innocent. Great logic you have going there.
I guess that puts Hitler and Saddam Hussein off the hook since they are dead. Stalin is dead also, so I get you think he was innocent, too. It's people like you who allow monsters like that to exist. No you're not the monster, but monsters themselves love denial of all sorts and one of the classic ones is being scared to talk about the dead, especially if there is something to be learned from it.
It's kind of important to know what the dead were about, as well as the living. Without an understanding of history, we may be doomed to repeat it.
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