Bizarre story at Holy Cross

[bulldog10jw]

Sorry, if someone already posted this

http://www.telegram.com/article/20081013/NEWS/810130457/1116

WORCESTER— A College of the Holy Cross football player is accused of attacking his teammate yesterday morning inside a City View Street three-decker where members of the team were celebrating their Saturday win over Brown University. But the Holy Cross football coach said yesterday the charge is not true. Michael McCabe, a 6-foot-5, 300-pound offensive lineman from Watertown, Conn., allegedly attacked teammate Luke Chmielinski leaving the wide receiver bleeding from the back and chest sometime before 2 a.m. yesterday, police said.

[Go...gate]

This is discussed at length on the VoyForums Holy Cross Board.

[PantherRob82]

so true or false?

[UNHWildCats]

so true or false?
the coach says its "inaccurate"

[Syntax Error]

the crossports board has a bunch of info and many many links for further info...
http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/thread.php?forumid=33744&threadid=1945315

[Minuteman87]

Sounds like Chmielinski was putting the moves on McCabe's sister, or maybe said something inappropriate to her. Can't say I agree with Gilmore though. He says the police report is "inaccurate" then says he doesn't know all the details. He can't have it both ways. When's the arraignment? We'll see what happens. Best of luck Crusaders.

[crusader11]

Here is the latest:

http://www.telegram.com/article/200...ERT01/810140282

[carney2]

the coach says its "inaccurate"

And the good folks at Colgate said that Jordan Scott and his friend were merely tandem sleepwalking and got disoriented.

[KAUMASS]

Sounds more like a story out of UMass.. are they sure it wasn't a bizarro world episode like they had in Seinfeld? Beer, Beer & more Beer. Nothing like playing a game and dropping 10-15 pounds in water weight and they hydrating yourself with beer....assuming alcohol was involved in this scenario.

[Go...gate]

And the good folks at Colgate said that Jordan Scott and his friend were merely tandem sleepwalking and got disoriented.

When I read your post and saw Art Carney's picture, I could not help thinking of Ed Norton's sleepwalking episodes on The Honeymooners. xlolx

[Cobblestone]

Hey, not all teammates like each other. Granted, this is an unfortunate incident but I played with a few guys I hated and vice-versa. However, I never felt the urge or desire to freakin' stab one of them. Still, you should put your personal differences aside and work together as a team. But guys in their 20's sometimes think with the wrong head. Chances are there was plenty of bad blood between these two to begin with and it hit its boiling point with alcohol being involved.

I find this to be the most interesting part of the entire incident:


Another man, identified as Stephen Kiely, a Boston College High School social studies teacher, was arrested in connection with the fight.

Safe bet that this guy can kiss his career goodbye.

[carney2]

When I read your post and saw Art Carney's picture, I could not help thinking of Ed Norton's sleepwalking episodes on The Honeymooners. xlolx

Great stuff, wasn't it? I've seen some of those "original 39" episodes like a thousand times. I say the line before Norton says it, and I still fall on the floor laughing when it happens.

[PantherRob82]

the coach says its "inaccurate"


So coach lied?

[NoCoDanny]

No knives involved? This is lightweight stuff.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

The story is pretty much just a sad incident - something that could pretty much happen on any college campus in America, basically. The problem, though, is the fact that it came at Holy Cross - a school with a town-gown problem as it is - and it came from the football team, who still is (why?) terrified of becoming a big-time athletics program with no principles.

Even though the facts are still not all out on this - though the latest news seems to point to an accident and not a stabbing - it's the reputation to the football team that may unjustly take a hit. Hopefully not.

Gilmore probably could have handled the situation a little better, but it's hard to see what else he could have done or said - he suspended the players pending the investigation.

[Go...gate]

I could not help noticing that Crosssports (on VoyForums) deleted all threads related to this. ESPN picked it up the story earlier today.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

I weigh in...

http://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2008/10/threatt-trying-out-for-soul-and.html