2 MSU football players kicked off team
E-mail from MSU Athletic Communications cited violation of team rules
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MSU head coach Mark Dantonio released a statement Tuesday afternoon announcing the dismissal of junior safety Roderick Jenrette and sophomore running back Glenn Winston from the team.
Winston had emerged as a possible first-string running back before going down with a torn anterior cruciate ligament against Illinois. Jenrette played in five games for the Spartans and went down with an injury against Michigan.
The dismissal comes amid controversy surrounding the team after an assault and battery occurred in Rather Hall on campus. A victim of the assault said football players were involved in the altercation.
The same victim identified his attacker as a man with dreadlocks.
Winston was reinstated this spring after an altercation involving members of the MSU hockey team, which landed Winston in jail.
The Spartans finished their season Saturday and await their postseason bowl fate, to be announced Dec. 6.
Up until this point, MSU police and the MSU communications have not released information regarding the incident and will not comment whether charges have been filed against any MSU students.
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Wow
(11/24/09 6:09pm)Report
Figures. Idiot can’t realize he had a second chance and does the exact same thing.
tenaciousb
(11/24/09 6:12pm)Report
Luckily none of this ever happens at UM
Really
(11/24/09 6:18pm)Report
@ tenaciousb: You’re kidding right? None of this ever happens at UM? A guy from your wrestling hospitalized a hockey player.
Erik
(11/24/09 6:18pm)Report
Yeah, at U of M they’re too soft to put up a fight, too arrogant to give someone a second chance and too busy watching their own coach destroy a top 20 program.
With that being said, good riddance and I’m glad Dantonio booted him, asap.
mumu
(11/24/09 6:21pm)Report
LOL dont they both have severe leg injuries? WTF
SoCal Spartan
(11/24/09 6:23pm)Report
Kick them off, keep them off, and don’t sweat. Thanks for making it public and not trying to cover it up like the scUM used to do. scUM has not been a top 20 program in some time, so what ever!
Joe Fan
(11/24/09 6:45pm)Report
Salt in the wound of the average MSU Fan. We buy tickets, stand behind the program, and its leaders can’t get out of their own way. Coach looks like a fool. Even more than the one who cant adjust its defense to stop a runny nose. Depressing I spent money on season tickets
Tim
(11/24/09 7:17pm)Report
MD recruited these two. He gave Winston a second chance mafter the kid “paid his debt.” Wrong message; should have said bye-bye from the get-go. There has to be more evidence than “the suspect” was a football player and had dreadlocks,” to make the dismissal stick. Too bad, but it looks like this program is starting to unravel. Look for more stuff like this, and MD’s ultimate departure. Tip of the iceberg????
Anon
(11/24/09 7:26pm)Report
Well, this is going to be a brutal news cycle for MSU in the next coming month. Between the frats and the football team, I feel pretty embarrassed.
Erik
(11/24/09 7:30pm)Report
Not even close to the beginning of the end for Dantonio. He gave Winston a second chance because he made a terrible decision. He got into a fight with some hockey players (and I’m SURE the hockey players didn’t instigate at all, right?) and did his time for it.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Don’t expect Dantonio to go out of his way for his players like he did. That’s all.
George Perles
(11/24/09 7:49pm)Report
MD gets it, this program is moving in the right direction. If you can’t use steroids you need to have thugs, the more the better…just like BBQ ribs, you can never have enough thugs!
snoop
(11/24/09 8:12pm)Report
so who are the other two players that were supposedly involved? this is just nuts….nice work thugs!
Joshua Vincent
(11/24/09 8:52pm)Report
I seem to sense a fair share of racism at the moment. They’re foolish kids, did the wrong thing, now they’ll pay the consequences. Let it be, so sad to bad.
Trim the ill petty immature comments that make you NO better then these guys when the stuff hit the fan.
Chris
(11/24/09 8:57pm)Report
See ya. Don’t let the door hit you punks on the way out.
Throwing away free rides through a Big Ten school. And for what? Get out.
Judge hastily and regret...
(11/24/09 9:16pm)Report
How easy is it to see past the eager eyes of desire and the well mannered look of polished prose by one trying to obtain an athletic scholarship. MD and his recuiters are not responsible for all violent reactions made by these talented individuals. They are. MD was willing to give a second chance but ‘they’ blew it! These are signs of a good coach…but what about that secondary defensive coaching? Better show some improvement or a new defensive coach MD…come on!
Michael Freeman
(11/25/09 12:24am)Report
Is it just me, or does it seem like all athletes (pro and college, basketball and football) are nothing but thugs? Sure you have a hand full of good guys but it seems like the majority of them are 1-step away from being locked up in the penn.
Finally
(11/25/09 2:17am)Report
It’s about time Winston was off the team. I don’t care how good he was, it was embarrassing every time he took the field this year knowing what happened last year in the incident with the hockey team. He should have been kicked off then. There is no way Tom Izzo would have tolerated that kind of action from his players, and Dantonio should hold his players to similarly high standards of character. And I agree with Anon, these series of out of control situations are getting really embarrassing.
ANON
(11/25/09 2:37pm)Report
Before you bash MD know the facts.
MD was persuaded by a trustee to give him that 2nd chance
Aussie2020
(11/26/09 6:09am)Report
Dantonio, the AD and probably even the President of MSU, need to have a personal SIT DOWN CHAT with everyone on the MSU football team. IT IS IMPORTANT that the Leadership of MSU address this ISSUE NOW, before any bowl acceptance. A good way to show LEADERSHIP is for MSU TO TURN DOWN ANY BOWL INVITATION!! It will show LEADERSHIP and also let the football players KNOW there will be CONSEQUENCES for the behaviour by Winston and his GANG!! Too bad they could not use this energy to stop the Nittany Lions. Probably is that they are ALL like the Oregon PLAYER who also turned to violence. I guess the guys and gals in DETROIT never learned to WALK AWAY and if you do, do not come back with your GANG of THUGS when you have been humiliated or shown. Dantanio, the AD and the MSU President need to go over the CV and references of every player they recruit or even practices with the MSU team. Winning at all costs is NOT AN ALTERNATIVE. At Northwestern and Standford they win with CLASS, and also at MSU in men’s and women’s BB. Suzzy and Izzo recruit only players of top character and who good citizens. Mark needs to do the same. If Jim H. can turn around Stanford, and Northwestern can win with character, then so can Mark at MSU and the coaches at Michigan and Notre Dame. Win at all costs is not AN OPTION at Stanford, Northwestern, and it should not be at MSU, Michigan and Notre Dame. Show some leadership. We certainly have not had it now for many years in the White House with record budget deficits, out of control spending and wars and atrocities both abroad and at home (Waco massacre and the kidnapping of children from Mums and Dads in Texas, and even now the massacre of American soldiers on American military bases). When will the violence end!! And lack of prosecution of rape by some famous LA basketball player, a famous Pittsburgh QB and finally a college basketball coach in Kentucky. Ĺack of prosecution of violence against women, and going after DAs (Nifong) who dare prosecute criminal activity on college campuses (Duke) should be rewarded. It was a TOTAL disgrace for American Justice what happened to DA Nifong. No wonder Kobe, Rick P. and Ben R. were not prosecuted by their respective DAs. None wanted to be the next Nifong!!
Tommer
(11/26/09 9:09am)Report
Good riddance to these jerks. There are millions of good kids out there with great grades, that cannot afford college. These idiots, especially winston, cannot keep it together to play in the Big Ten AND get a free education. I don’t understand.
I believe winston is on the fast track to prison. Thug or not, I think he is a waste of skin.
Jimmy
(11/28/09 3:17am)Report
Who’s the idiot who writes,” I seem to sense some racism.” Why, because someone used the word thugs? Stick your race card.
don't worry
(11/29/09 12:42am)Report
i hate how people associate “thug” with racism. maybe you are the one with some prejudice. the girl soccer player who got caught pulling hair acted like a thug as well. if any other players were involved with this, i don’t care what skin color, they deserve to get the exact same treatment