From bad to worse…

More disheartening news has broken on Ryan Moore’s latest off the field issue.

This morning the Miami Herald wrote that Moore’s altercation with a female patron outside the Rathskeller was a little more heated than originally reported.

Around 2:00am this past Saturday, Moore allegedly grabbed a woman by the neck, pushed her to the ground and eventually kicked her car door. He then threatened the woman’s male companion, telling the young man to back off or “I’ll do to you what I did to her.”

Moore was eventually restrained by teammate and friend, running back Tyrone Moss.

The more I hear about this situation, the more I think #85 needs an early departure from the University of Miami. Should an arrest be made, Moore needs to go.

Moore might’ve had a ‘get out of jail free’ in his hip pocket, if he wasn’t already serving a three game suspension. Most people, when in the doghouse, learn to fly under the radar a bit. Keep your nose clean. Stay out of the bars at 2:00am. Walk away from a verbal altercation before it turns physical.

Not Moore. He had to get knee-deep in this one, make a spectacle of himself and commit the cardinal sin of getting physical with a women. The ultimate no-no… especially for a high profile University of Miami football player already in trouble.

A few weeks back I chastised Florida State for allowing Ernie Sims and A.J. Nicholson to play against Miami in last season’s opener. Sims had a domestic dispute issue with a girlfriend and Nicholson was arrested for D.U.I. During the week of the Orange Bowl, Nicholson was sent back to Tallahassee before the game as a local woman cried ‘date rape.’

It’d be irresponsible for me to trash those two former Noles and not rip one of our own for doing something equally as vile.

This is a selfish act by Moore. His teammates don’t deserve the negative press a week before the game of the year and the program deserves better. Miami has battled image problems for years. All the good that Butch Davis did cleaning up the program; it’s an afterthought to the national media.

One incident like this has much more staying power. It puts the Canes back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons and allows the haters to say, “See… I told you Miami is still nothing but a bunch of thugs.”

More headlines of this nature and the five year clean up plan might’ve well been 100 years ago instead of ten.

Entering 2006, these Canes have a ton of talent. From team leaders like Jon Beason, Kyle Wright and Brandon Meriweather – to the talented crop of super-freshman like Sam Shields, Ryan Hill and Javarris James.

This team has the potential to go somewhere and it can’t allow some dead weight to drag it down. If Moore is guilty of what he’s being accused of here, Coker needs to give him the boot.

Don’t let one bad apple spoil the whole bunch. Show Moore the door.

.:Canes305:.

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