Running 2022-23 NCAA Basketball Thread

Do we know who he choked?

 

His fiancée, according to this story from the American-Statesman.

https://www.statesman.com/story/new...l-coach-charged-domestic-assault/69720219007/

 

Rice-Texas going into OT.

 

Early this afternoon, I read the attorney's comments: "He's 100% innocent. The complaining witness wants the charges dropped."
Well, if that's the case, she had quite the change of heart.
Texas suspends coach Beard following arrest

According to the arrest affidavit first reported by the Austin American-Statesman, the woman told police she is his fiancée and they have been in a relationship for six years. She said they had been in an argument during which she broke his glasses before he "just snapped on me and became super violent."

According to the affidavit, the woman told police, "He choked me, bit me, bruises all over my leg, throwing me around and going nuts."

 

You choke when your airway is blocked internally, usually by an object like a hard piece of food.

When your airway is constricted due to external pressure, you're being strangled.

I know people commonly conflate the two, but since this is still ostensibly a journalism board, I thought I'd note that important language distinction.

Also, strangulation is a particularly dangerous form of assault and is seen as a pre-homicide crime in domestic violence as abuse victims who are strangled by their partner are at significantly greater risk of a future, fatal attack than domestic violence victims who have experienced other forms of abuse.

 

Has there ever been any reporting on the circumstances of Beard’s previous divorce?

 

I’m curious about his divorce, as well. Beard has made a lot of money in this. If it’s a fiancée or another partner, I can’t imagine they’re in a hurry to call the cops, even with abuse, because that means it puts the gravy train job at risk.

I speak at this as a DV survivor. As my kids were from my late wife. She would get drunk and shove us, hit us. I got hit once at 2 am when I was sleeping and had a black eye. Called out sick for a few days — couldn’t anchor the news like that.

But I also never called the police because, well, as the man in this relationship with a nice salary and a visible job, the last thing I needed was putting my livelihood at risk if the newspaper started sniffing around — even as the survivor. I would have been guilty until proven innocent, as a guy on a DV call.

 

Depending on the state in which you resided at the time, you might have been hauled off to jail. Maybe those laws have been rewritten, but there was a time when Texas and Florida, I think, mandated that both parties in a domestic disturbance were to be arrested. Wrote a story about it once about a coach in your situation. He was the victim. Yet he was charged because of the way the statute was written.

 

Exactly.

One, SHE calls the cops on all of us because she was too drunk and making threats. That's the first thing that went into my mind. I met the police at the door and showed them the angry, violent texts she has sent me all throughout her drunken night. As they cross-checked her number with the number the call center got, they said, "I'm sorry you're going through this. We'll wait to hear from YOU if you feel this is an issue."

To which, I was most appreciative.

 

Bama on the ropes v Memphis at home. Up 3 with 10 to play.

 

A couple of takeaways from that game:

1. I am officially fat, as there is no way for me to sit comfortably in a seat at Coleman Coliseum with the metal armrests.
2. Some dude-bro and his friends came rolling in about midway through the first half (of an 8 pm tip), forcing me to jam in right beside him. When he wasn’t trying to be The Most Entertaining Heckler In The Arena, he was bragging incessantly about his parlay teaser of the over and Bama -3.5 (down from the official line of -7.5). The over makes easily despite Memphis struggling from the floor much of the night. Over the final 90 seconds, Bama starts pissing away what had grown to a 9-point lead and our hero starts getting more and more nervous. Sure enough, the Tigers finally make their first trey with 0.6 seconds left to cut the final score to 91-88.

I couldn’t help it. I cackled.

 

Maryland getting taken behind the woodshed.