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A strange, expletive filled Facebook rant has blown yet another Duck out of the water this week. Reacting to false reports that linebacker Kiko Alonso had been dismissed from the Oregon football team after a DUI arrest, receiver Jamere Holland digitally did himself in. He publicly challenged the coach assuming Alonso had been kicked off and then jokingly wished he could 'block whites as [Facebook] friends'. Amusingly he managed to change Alonso's first name from Kiko to kinko during the rant.This being the Internet his posting made its way to the Athletic Director's office and the troubled receiver soon found himself off the team.
Said Athletic Director Mike Bellotti, "we've given this guy so many chances. We've had many sit-down, very serious talks". Apparently Holland could not be helped.
Meanwhile, Holland's dismissal managed to obscure Alonso's own troubles. He was stopped and taken in for DUI early Saturday just hours after coach Chip Kelly met the press to discuss the program's troubling last few weeks. Those few weeks include several player dismissals and departures stemming from various arrests and assaults. That, on top of a pending investigation into theft by star quarterback Jeremiah Masoli and assault by star tailback LaMichael James.
So, is the Oregon football program out of control? The immediate impulse is to say yes but every offseason this happens all across college football. Coach Chip Kelly is saying and doing the right things -- leading those horses, er, Ducks, to water -- but Oregon's gotten a taste of success and it may have been enough to tip behavior a bit. Every offseason some program inevitably separates from its peers as far as shenanigans go, The only surprise is that new money Oregon's entered the game rather than old money usual suspects like Oklahoma, USC, Tennessee or Alabama.
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