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Unfortunately, this was his sixth year. This was his fourth ACL tear.

It's difficult from the video to really convey what action was taken by her in the groin region. However, it's reasonable to argue that any woman is taught to knee a guy in the groin for defensive purposes (hell, even offensive purposes). It could be argued that she is being physically restrained and felt she had to use any means to free herself from restraint.

EDIT: Looking at it again, her leg was up in a separation movement, not a "I'm going for the groin" attack. If you'll notice from the video, he grabs her hand and starts bringing her a little closer, and her leg comes up to create distance. He continues to pull on her and she shoves out with her knee, again, to create distance.

Also, looking at it again, you can see her behind the guy with the tank top on, clearly waiting to get to the bar. She squeezes in, and he ends up trying to squeeze in behind her and she looks back and says something to him. With no audio, unless you're a lip reader, your guess is as good as mine. However, he keeps pushing through, and if you pay attention to her legs, she tries to establish a place at the bar that he walks through.

Depends on the lawyers and everyone with the legal system, but I could easily see her getting no charges, and him getting a couple talked down to not much of anything. He could easily be charged with battery and illegal restraint on the video evidence alone, unless the lawyer is able to argue about not clearly being able to identify that it is him in the video.

You never want to see a successful athletic career of any kind end like this. I hope he finds success in his life after football.

I remember when Corey Moore and John Engelberger would celebrate a sack by telling each other "meet you back at the quarterback"...well, i've been waiting over 15 years for this mentality, and it's back, baby!

Injuries are never good. The good news is he has a degree from Duke to fall back on which ain't a shabby thing to have.

If you can't handle a bar situation, you shouldn't be in one.

If you want to get technical about it, he is 19... Not being there is a decision that shouldn't have been up to him in the first place.

They were both wrong, but he outright slugged her. She swung at him because he was physically controlling her.

The physically stronger person is the more responsible, as they are capable of inflicting more damage.
IMHO, when you escalate, you're taking more responsibility.

If you can't handle a bar situation, you shouldn't be in one.

French, I think you are missing the most important piece of their success in those 3 games down the stretch and what worries me the most about playing tOSU and that's Cardale Jones rocket arm.

In your game write up on how to Beat tOSU last season, you said JT Barrett struggled throwing the deep ball and inorder to beat tOSU we needed to take away the middle routes and force them to go deep, which is exactly what we did.

Cardale has a cannon arm and can throw an accurate deep ball. Non of us know which QB is going to start for tOSU, but if it's Cardale, I think we are going to struggle more with the deep ball.

One comment/observation/question....with VT D applying pressure it should make the dbs job a little easier. Knowing that the pass rush should get there quickly it almost eliminates the threat of double move routes and routes that take longer to develop. Don't let the slant beat you!
If OSU has a qb that can consistently throw that 7-10 yd out route then let em do it....I don't think they have that kind of qb accuracy.
I hope we stay healthy in camp and go into this game 100%.

Bama had an extremely good secondary in 2009. Both corners (Kareem Jackson, Javier Arenas) ended up playing in the NFL. Last year's crew was substantially worse.

Great write up as always, French.

A couple of things. I really felt like Bama was forced into a more passive approach by their personnel in the back 7. Their safeties and Eddie Jackson (who has since been moved to safety) really struggled in man coverage against better receivers on the year and therefore they were forced to take their safeties out of the box and help cover. Also, Bama's linebackers were simply not fast enough to track Elliot down- even on the play you show #33 Trey Depriest is (intentionally, I believe) left unblocked and he doesn't even come close to making the play. #30 Duvall gives himself a chance to recover but can't. For all of the talk about how well Alabama recruits, it seemed like a bad matchup for them given their defense's limitations.

Also, it felt to me like MSU's linebackers did not play very well. They seemed lost and to be guessing where the play was going rather than reading the play and filling the gap. It looked like MSU had a ton of mental errors to go with their passive scheme- simple technique things like #44 Marcus Rush taking on blocks with his outside shoulder and allowing the QB to get outside of him. #2 Darian Hicks played so poorly that he ended up getting demoted for the last 3 games of the year. They were very good for most of the year, so this was surprising to me. Thoughts on what happened?

Edit: I see you already addressed most of this by the time I got this posted. Good stuff.

When he sees Bud and Dadi, he'll be changing his shorts.