Mbakwe arrested
by COJOMAY on Jan 11, 2011 12:03 AM CST
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For breaking rules of probation. There goes the season! Mbakwe has posted bond of $500 and was released. But will face court charges. Maturi is aware of this. If Maturi doesn't let him play, we can kiss this season goodbye. Why the heck do things like this always happen to the Gophers. Is it the type of kids we are recruiting or is it something else? This tream has been in turmoil for the last three years it seems. One thing after another.
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Maybe Tubby should get the kids off Facebook and Twitter altogether!
This is completely insane, btw, though somehow typical for this era of Gophers basketball.
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confused...
…when somebody gets a RESTRAINING ORDER against you in court…isn’t the first thing you do to consider them not to exist?
Seems like this is more noise to a program that needs silence and focus. Guy has a second lease on life from his assault trial….WTF is he doing tempting fate again?
I’m feeling very “anti-college athlete” today I guess….but grabbing two headlines on the front page of ESPN, one is that your star player is in jail and the other is that last year’s star player is leaving the program to play at Auburn sort of stings me on a snowy, depressing, winter Tuesday…
I think it’s time to stop tip-toeing around Tubby Smith and start pressing the guy on these issues. I still think Tubby is viewed as “bigger than Minnesota deserves”…and that’s bullshit. He’s not doing us some kind of favor by coaching here. He should be held accountable for all this noise the past two years. Just like any other no-name coach would be. I am happy he’s our coach, so don’t put words in my mouth…but he shouldn’t still be treated so holy.
good point...
…I guess I’m at a point now where I don’t even admit to myself that Maturi exists, so I bypass him when I get onto my soap box to pass out blame and accusations!
What does Maturi have to do with any of this?
I know it is easy to use him as a punching bag, but what does he have to do with Mbakwe violating terms of his parole?
If anyone other than Mbakwe is to blame for this, it is Tubby. And I’m not so sure you can peg this on Tubby. When Tubby recruited him to play, I think Mbakwe’s background was pretty clean.
This incident seems relatively minor, but a violation of his parole makes it more serious. Also, why wouldn’t the woman “de-friend” him from facebook if she didn’t want contact with him? I guess non-friends can post on your wall if you have the most basic of privacy settings, but who allows non-friends to post on your wall? Either way, I guess it still isn’t her fault…
From what I've heard
It was a message, not a wall posting, and non-friends can send messages if the receiver hasn’t set their privacy settings not to allow it. I guess I’m more surprised that one or both of them didn’t “block” each other making themselves essentially non-existent to the other.
That's where I'm confused...
…didn’t anybody recommend that they do blocks and cell phone number deletions and email contact deletions and all forms of forgetting that the other person exists, as part of the restraining order?
As a disclaimer, I base this all on an obsession with Law and Order :-) In which case, restraining orders are jokes and people always get killed by the person who they have a restraining order against.
Maturi leaning toward suspending Mbakwe
GopherHole is reporting that Joel Maturi is leaning toward suspending Mbakwe for at least Thursday’s game against Purdue.
http://www.gopherhole.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1277
Why does this have to happen two days before a must-win game against a top 10 opponent? For what it’s worth, I have never heard of a Facebook crime before, but in this age, it does make sense.
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Facebook "crime" is pretty common now
UW LaCrosse students were getting cited for underage drinking based on Facebook photos. People (not just young people) need to wise up that everything you do on Facebook is out there and can be used against you.
He has to be suspended
Unless some new evidence comes to light that mitigates Mbakwe’s actions, such as the woman initiating contact with him first.
It brings about an interesting legal issue…say that they are still “facebook friends” and that everything she posts shows up on his facebook feed. He simply responds to one of her posts such as “I had eggs for breakfast today” and Mbakwe responded to her post by saying “I love me some omelettes”. By her not “de-friending” him, would she be initiating contact since her posts show up on his facebook feed? I just don’t understand why she would get a restraining order against him and then not have privacy settings such that he would be able to post things on her page. Obviously, I have no idea what the details are, and I’m sure it had nothing to do with Mbakwe’s love for omelettes, I’m just using a hypothetical legal example and how the law becomes very gray given modern day technology.
Any legal experts here?
How do you remain Facebook friends?
She has no legal recourse here if after seeking a no-contact order doesn’t defriend him and even block him from knowing she exists. He shares in the culpability but I have no sympathy for her – rather than defriending she calls the police (talk about taking a sledgehammer to a mosquito). If you don’t want someone posting on your wall or sending you a message, Facebook has very easy ways to keep that from happening on a person by person basis. And any lawyer worth anything will point that out and get this thing dropped.
Let's not jump to conclusions...
…we have no idea what the nature of the message was. No matter the privacy settings and friend status, the context of the message means a lot, and none of us know what it is at this point. She may feel threatened or intimidated by him, so I would be hesitant to dismiss the seriousness of it.
Also...
I have no idea if it was a wall post or private message. A poster above seems to have heard it was the latter. Either way, the burden of having the right privacy settings shouldn’t be on her. Mbakwe knows he is not to have contact with her either way.
The scenario I described above was completely hypothetical and more a tangent on the broader “facebook crimes” and not necessarily pertaining to the case in question.
I agree completely
I would just think that since the “no contact order” went both ways, that they would have both taken steps to make sure that they couldn’t make mistakes like this. Trevor is still totally responsible for whatever dumb thing he did here (be it an innocuous message or worse).
what if...
he didn’t even send the message? where’s the proof that it wasn’t someone else on his profile messing around…. (little did they know the woman would call the cops and Mbakwe would be in jail).
So
Mbakwe will not start, but will play Thursday.
by StegerWithSwagg on Jan 11, 2011 2:07 PM CST reply actions
What a bizarre situation
The more I have read about it, the more I am both sympathetic and pissed at the same time. Sympathetic because from what I hear, the message was actually a thoughtful one and I am sure he thought he was doing a nice thing. Pissed because I still have no idea what he was thinking!
Either way, I am selfishly glad that he is playing and hope that he learned his lesson. We definitely need him on the court and it doesn’t seem like this should be something that warrants any crazy suspension.
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