Fight on, Lawrence Phillips.....31 years in the joint...

[TripletDaddy]

I am sure everyone remembers Lawrence Phillips....college lunatic on and off the field, wins 2 titles at Nebraska, arrested loads of times (attempted rape, assault, etc)...later, he washes out of the NFL after being taken 5th or 6th....next, he allegedly kidnaps his girlfriend and tries to choke her in San Diego....and finally, he heads up to LA, plays a game up pick-up football with some local kids in the park next to the Coliseum. After accusing the kids of trying to take his gym bag, he hops into a Honda and tries to run them over.

Fast forward to today....Phillips gets 31 years in prison.

This guy needs a time out.

http://www.kusi.com/home/79661197.html

After the charges were filed against him, Phillips fled to Los Angeles, where in 2006 he was convicted of seven felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon for aiming a car at a group of boys and young men after an August 2005 pickup football game near the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.


Three people were struck by the car, and a fourth young man was injured when the car struck a bicycle which then hit him.


Deputy District Attorney Nicole Cooper told San Diego County Superior Court Judge Kerry Wells that Phillips exhibited violence toward women over a 10- year period, beginning in 1995.


While at the University of Nebraska, Phillips attacked his girlfriend in her apartment and dragged her down her three flights of stairs, the prosecutor said.


Phillips punched a woman at a club in 1998, choked a woman in 2000 and choked another woman in Canada in 2003, Cooper said.


"He is a threat to society," the prosecutor said. "He is a danger, particularly to women."

[TripletDaddy]

Another older story about Lawrence Phillips. I would have given him $30 for the ring, easily.

Trouble-prone football star Lawrence Phillips apparently hit rock bottom in Las Vegas.

Phillips, an NFL bust after helping Nebraska to consecutive national titles in the mid-1990s, walked into a downtown Las Vegas pawnshop not long ago and sold one of his Big Eight championship rings for $20.

"He said he was stuck in Las Vegas," said Steve Gibson, owner of Steve's Buy & Sell, 625 Las Vegas Blvd. South. "He said, `I need to get out of town.' "

Gibson, who turned around and sold the ring on eBay for $1,700, said he tried to talk Phillips out of selling it. "I thought about giving him $20, but he would have just walked down the street and sold it."

Phillips, the sixth player taken in the 1996 draft, by the St. Louis Rams, ran afoul of the law throughout his pro career.

Phillips told Gibson he tried to hawk the ring "at every pawnshop from Tropicana to downtown," but nobody was interested because it was not gold.

"His name was on the side of the ring, but I didn't believe it was him until I saw his driver's license," Gibson said.

[CJF]

I lost a lot of respect for Tom Osborne in how he handled the LP situation. I wonder what Osborne is thinking now about his decisions to handle LP with very little disciple and accountablility. Philips was a ticking time bomb, but I wonder if a suspension early in his Nebraska career could have defused the blow ups.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Another older story about Lawrence Phillips. I would have given him $30 for the ring, easily.

The author of the article clearly did a lot of research, "Big East Championship ring"? Well done.

[TripletDaddy]

The author of the article clearly did a lot of research, "Big East Championship ring"? Well done.

Good point. You can always tell when someone is hasty and sloppy.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Good point. You can always tell when someone is hasty and sloppy.

If that was a dig at my English skillz, get in line behind exUtelujah.

[TripletDaddy]

If that was a dig at my English skillz, get in line behind exUtelujah.

You'll find it.

And then you will repent.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Fish sticks, I swear that said "Big East". Reading is stupid.

[SteelBlue]

Didn't he actually paralyze one of those pick up game kids that he ran over?

[TripletDaddy]

Fish sticks, I swear that said "Big East". Reading is stupid.

Part of the repentance process is to seek forgiveness from the offended.

You should contact the author of the article and work things out.

[il Padrino Ute]

I lost a lot of respect for Tom Osborne in how he handled the LP situation. I wonder what Osborne is thinking now about his decisions to handle LP with very little disciple and accountablility. Philips was a ticking time bomb, but I wonder if a suspension early in his Nebraska career could have defused the blow ups.

Yep. It was the way he cowardly dealt with Phillips that helped me decide that Osborne is a POS and from that day forward I have hated Nebraska and love to see that team lose. It's a shame that Osborne can't be charged as an accomplice in any of Phillips' crimes, as he was an enabler of Phillips' antisocial behavior.

[Portland Ute]

Do you guys really think that Phillips behavior is any worse than if Osborne had cut him loose?

I'm of the opinion that it made no difference.

In fact, maybe Osborne was hoping that football was his one hope of a getting his life together.

Maybe Phillips would have ended up WORSE off had Osborne cut him loose.

[cougjunkie]

Do you guys really think that Phillips behavior is any worse than if Osborne had cut him loose?

I'm of the opinion that it made no difference.

In fact, maybe Osborne was hoping that football was his one hope of a getting his life together.

Maybe Phillips would have ended up WORSE off had Osborne cut him loose.

I agree no difference than what Urban Meyer has done with several kids and people are now calling him a rehabilitator. Yet Osborne is a POS for doing the same thing.

[CJF]

Do you guys really think that Phillips behavior is any worse than if Osborne had cut him loose?

I'm of the opinion that it made no difference.

In fact, maybe Osborne was hoping that football was his one hope of a getting his life together.

Maybe Phillips would have ended up WORSE off had Osborne cut him loose.

I really do think he is worse off for the way Osborne handled it. He was taught by an authority figure that you aren't held accountable to for actions no matter how violent and disturbed they may be if you can win a couple of national champsionships. I'm not saying he would have been a saint if Osborne had suspended him or kicked him out of Nebraska all together, but I do think he would have been much better off.

[cougjunkie]

I really do think he is worse off for the way Osborne handled it. He was taught by an authority figure that you aren't held accountable to for actions no matter how violent and disturbed they may be if you can win a couple of national champsionships. I'm not saying he would have been a saint if Osborne had suspended him or kicked him out of Nebraska all together, but I do think he would have been much better off.

CJF do you not think if a guy like Phillips is kicked out of school he immediately goes back to the ghetto and lives the same lifestyle he is living now.