Gophers basketball recruit Trevor Mbakwe accused of assaulting ...

Former St. Bernard's High School basketball standout Trevor Mbakwe, a key member of University of Minnesota coach Tubby Smith's incoming recruiting class, is facing a felony battery charge stemming from an April incident in Miami-Dade County.

[LCFS]

I'm sure it was a another 6'8 230 pound guy on a bicycle.

[UoM]

LCFS wrote:

I'm sure it was a another 6'8 230 pound guy on a bicycle.

O she could probably tell the mans height and weight by seeing him ride his bike

[Dr Spock]

How does the AD not know of the charges? Unbelievable! Institutional control, anyone?

[LCFS]

UoM wrote:

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O she could probably tell the mans height and weight by seeing him ride his bike

I assumed he got off the bicycle when he went to pull her pants down (to rape her?) and punch her face in.

[JTristesse]

He's innocent.

[ClemHaskin]

Just the type of kid I'm looking for on my team.

[the cold hard truth]

It's a cultural thing

[Odrama]

LCFS wrote:

I'm sure it was a another 6'8 230 pound guy on a bicycle.

Maybe you should look at the Miami-Dade bball team. One way or another the truth will come out and he'll be starting for the Gophers or bagging groceries.

[T-Bone]

Maybe Twincities.com will allow him to use their reporters and site as his facebook page like they did for Dominic Jones and his magical cell phone camera. These guys are victoms! Maybe Obama will say the people who arrested him "acted stupidly" like he did for the Harvard jet lag guy. What is happening to my country, my Gophers, my goodness.

[Jay]

Where there is smoke there is fire. Mbakwe is a million dollar talent with a ten cent head. He has the self-destruction factor -- as evidenced by his transferring from Marquette, a national title contender with great guards, to a junior college! What a bonehead!!

Not saying he's guilty of the crime he's charged with...just saying the guy ain't the "sharpest tool in the shed," and that I'd be less than shocked if it turns out he assaulted this young woman. If he did, he should have to serve some hard time.

[Conservative observations]

If true, it sounds like another winner coming to the U without any sense of boundaries regarding women. Again, where do they find these clowns?

[Well]

If this isn't THE MOST BS Statement.
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Minnesota athletics director Joel Maturi said by phone Tuesday that he wasn't aware of Mbakwe's case.

[Free Jeff Dubay]

he'll make a fine pro in a couple years. He's got street cred now.

[There You Have It]

Surbuban Dad wrote:

He was a major pot head peddler at St Bernards and a trouble maker.
When you put sports a head of cristian values these are the thugs you get.

That's because St. Bernard's recruits those types of kids for their basketball team and gives them full scholaships (the coach is the president's husband). Mbakwe was only there for his senior year. Another St. Bernard's basketball player, a senior, was expelled this year for an "indecent" act with a freshman girl in the school cafeteria; ICK! Think about your kids eating lunch there.

[Jay Bee]

So its April and school is in session.. and you leave Florida to go live with mommy for some reason? Could be because he committed this crime.. or could be just because he's a headcase (90 diff schools over the past few years, leaving Marquette a day before classes start, etc..)...

Ski U Mah

[B Kendig]

There You Have It wrote:

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That's because St. Bernard's recruits those types of kids for their basketball team and gives them full scholaships (the coach is the president's husband). Mbakwe was only there for his senior year. Another St. Bernard's basketball player, a senior, was expelled this year for an "indecent" act with a freshman girl in the school cafeteria; ICK! Think about your kids eating lunch there.

Good lord,

St Bernards was a good school. The pot peddling and assaults are not worth having this super athletic basketball team.

Poor leadership at the top levels are the reasons for this mess at SBH.

[WOW]

Jay Bee wrote:

So its April and school is in session.. and you leave Florida to go live with mommy for some reason? Could be because he committed this crime.. or could be just because he's a headcase (90 diff schools over the past few years, leaving Marquette a day before classes start, etc..)...
Ski U Mah

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Very strange!!!

[Bjack]

In reading these comments, I would have thought that he was convicted of a crime. A little rush to judgment maybe????????

[Bjack]

Jay Bee wrote:

So its April and school is in session.. and you leave Florida to go live with mommy for some reason? Could be because he committed this crime.. or could be just because he's a headcase (90 diff schools over the past few years, leaving Marquette a day before classes start, etc..)...
Ski U Mah

I'm sure it was because he committed the crime and he knew they would never be able to find him....???

Ski U Mah? Really? Way to support your players.

[Old blue eyes]

Bjack wrote:

In reading these comments, I would have thought that he was convicted of a crime. A little rush to judgment maybe????????

Knothead-

If Obama can make judgments without knowing all the facts, so can the rest of america.

"change we can believe in"