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George Stripling dismissed

Football. Seriously. Come on.

Your ability to correlate bad news with basketball's good news is simply uncanny. Help yourself out here and just throw us something, anything, positive. Give me a solid day in the weight room, someone playing a clever, but still lighthearted and harmless practical joke, some special teams guy is secretly a really good chef, anything.

Anyway, Kragthorpe announced today that running back George Stripling has been dismissed from the team for a violation of team rules.

Stripling had been suspended for all of spring practice.

The good news (it's a start) is that if the Cards could afford to lose a player at any position, it'd be running back. With the return of Bilal Powell and Brock Bolen, as well as the spring emergence of Vic Anderson and the eligibility of Dale Martin, touches were likely going to be hard to come by for Stripling in his senior season anyway.

We all had pretty high hopes for George after the shows he put on at the end of blowouts when he was a freshman and the stellar first half of his sophomore season, but he was never the same player after Petrino punished him for losing the ball a couple of times against Kansas State and Middle Tennessee State in 2006. He didn't play at all in the monumental win over West Virginia, and carried just twice a week later against Rutgers. He appeared far less quick and far more unsure of himself throughout his junior season, and ran for only 258 yards as U of L's third-string tailback.

We'll always have Miami, George...and your highly overrated self on NCAA Football 2008.  

I will miss the dreads.


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Dear Louisville Football,
WTF? In the time since Petrino has left are program, it has gone from disappointing, to dismal, to now just weird and sad.  At this point I'm not blaming Krag as much (or even at all sometimes) as I was say the 6th game of the season. Now removed from the season, I can get a scope of what kind of program Bobby was running and covering up. Without as much fanfare and more jeering, Krag has been doing as much a clean up job here as Creen is having to do at IU.  

Well at least we always have Miami....

by Blocky on May 16, 2008 1:04 PM EDT   0 recs

I wonder
if George was in the car during the Willie Williams incident?

by bradlm on May 16, 2008 2:57 PM EDT   0 recs

I like the dreads too, but...
Bob Marley had 'em for a reason...
Nothing against puffing the chiba, but it probably effects the off-season training.  When I went to school at UL, the football players were all drunks.  
This dude named Underwood put his hand through a wire mesh window.  Blood led right to his dorm room. He wondered how they caught him.  I think we fans can all have low expectations for next season, and hopefully be pleasantly surprised.

by I Am Legend on May 16, 2008 5:45 PM EDT   0 recs

From what I've heard
George had bigger issues than just weed.

by Mike Rutherford on May 16, 2008 7:43 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

jersey
i wonder what kramer is going to do with his stripling jersey now. i guess danny and his mario jersey can keep him company

by Sans on May 17, 2008 2:51 PM EDT   0 recs

Apparantly
I am not supposed to buy UofL football jerseys.  First, Peanut Whitehead.  Now, George.  I'm only wearing t-shirts and hoodies from now on.

by cardsfan on May 19, 2008 8:09 AM EDT   0 recs

It's all right
My Jeremy Baker jersey didn't fare any better.

by Mike Rutherford on May 19, 2008 8:20 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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