Miami offensive lineman Taylor Gadbois has been dismissed from the team. Canes OL coach Art Kehoe will have his hands full in the fall.— Andrea Adelson (@aadelsonESPN) June 25, 2015
Gadbois started four games last season and was expected to be the starter at right tackle, however he did not start against Virginia Tech.
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You know, because Miami can easily absorb more personnel losses....
Things not looking too good down there.
Behavioral issues at da U?EDIT: Miami/Golden doing something utterly classless?
How many OL are gone from last year's team? I know the ACC was having some big OL turnover on some teams. I think the entire starting 5 from BC are gone
Four guys with starting experience are now gone from last year's team. They only return 18 career starts. As far as I know they're still looking for a RG and the LT may now be one of the recruits from this past recruiting cycle.
In other ACC offensive lineman news, Clemson's starting LT, Battle, is entering the supplemental draft
Unless there's a damn good reason for this, Miami and Al Golden come off looking extremely bad.
http://caneswatch.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2015/06/25/taylor-gadbois-shock...
Wow. I would have to think there is a something more going on there. But if its as simple as that, I don't see how Golden could ever land another recruit there.
If they just rescinded a scholarship "just because"....man thats a bad look. I know the article says he was seen as a negative presence, but we all know if he was really really good that would have never come up.
And this is something you print out and send to every single one of Miami's current recruiting targets.
Playing
Devil'sGolden's advocate here.. sounds like the guy was a locker room cancer. A lot of what Golden has been doing at Miami has been about creating a positive, team-first attitude around the program...So dismiss him from the team if you need to. But good lord, taking the kid's scholarship a semester short of graduating? That's absurd
Again, we don't know the whole story here.
Those negative waves, though, they'll get after ya.
Without the whole story, this looks very bad for Miami from a recruits perspective. It looks even worse from a recruits parents perspective. They yanked his scholarship with one semester left to graduate? Those parents want their kids to not just potentially go to the NFL, they should also want them to graduate.
You would think they'd pay for his last semester unless he did something worthy of kicking him out of school.
Not letting him play is one thing, but kicking him out of school (by not funding his scholarship) should require some due dilligence.
Who knows, maybe they had something really negative on him. It may be that they're letting him off easy.
That's why I said without the whole story.
Looks like they are hot on the recruiting trail!!!!
Kinda echoes what Duke Johnsons Mom had to say about the U..
i'll speak up a little more being a recent NCAA athlete and graduate.. A school/coach cannot take your scholly away based on play/commitment there has to be some sort of performance issue in classroom or an off field issue. My initial guess is something is coming down the pike but don't want to announce it until all facts have been laid out..
my .2
FWIW, that doesn't go into effect until next semester, I'm pretty sure.
That's all in quotes, plenty of kids from high profile schools have said otherwise.
Clemson's having a bunch of issues too. They've already had two guys dismissed from the team, the kicker suspended indefinitely for cocaine possession, and there are rumors that a couple more are coming.
Does this mean the Journell is no longer the most notorious kicker in the ACC?
They need to keep the players away from their mascot.
Beamer would never do such a thing to a college athlete one semester short of graduation. If he wasn't on scholarship, Beamer would instead put him on scholarship like Wade Henssen .
We were saying the same things last year about how screwed Paul johnson was.... Let's wait to see if Miami flops on the field before we discuss him being fired.
That being said total dick move
Yeah, but Johnson had nothing close to the same issues. It seemed like he just had an overall general lack of talent, IIRC. I mean, on top of being something of an @ssdouche. But yes, your point still stands. None of this matters until we actually play the game.
In other news:
(I don't know what the news is, but...hey.)
After watching our undersized line getting mashed by Miami and Pitt, knowing that they could have a space eating two gap monster give them some depth along with a stronger Ricky Walker makes me get all goose pimply.
That would be fantastic
Lots of pain in my heart knowing my dream of graduating a can was one semester short
— Taylor Gadbois (@TGcanes76) June 25, 2015
The U is offering a degree in beverage transportation sciences. Call me grammar police but if one is going to gripe about not completing a college degree then one should at least spell at a college level.
Maybe, just maybe, it's a typo.
Sort of like omitting "the" between "Call me" and "grammar police"...
ROFL
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Food for thought: what offenses would you consider being severe enough to dismiss someone from the program and revoke the scholarship 1 semester away from graduating? I think its a pretty blurry line (with obvious exceptions).
I would say two main categories that I would put in this area of severity:
Repeated acts of violence or 1 particularly egregious act of violence.
Academic fraud/dishonesty especially if its a pattern over time.
One other area that would warrant consideration is physically non-violent offenses that cause harm to others (filing false complaints/accusations, verbal assault, etc.)
1. Not acknowledging the talent of the Beatles.
2. Stating Cake>Pie.
3. Rooting for uva.
4. Repeatedly saying 'Vah Tech.'
5. Denying pussy touchdowns.
6. Inappropriate use of the word 'entitled.'
.....did I miss any?
Honorable mention: no cheese pizza...wtf?!
Not giving credit when it obviously needed.
Only half dipping your dork magic.
Being this guy:
Shout out to Cinci Hokie for the meme.
Golden have a daughter?