Getting a DUI and then hiding it from your football coach is universally a terrible idea; it’s not like when the coach finds out, he admires your ingenuity and gives you a helmet sticker. But quick - name the worst I-A school at which to pull such a stunt. If you guessed Baylor, good guess but no. The answer is BYU, because BYU has Mormons, and Mormons are like vampires who feed on your ability to enjoy worldly pleasures. Also, they sleep in coffins.
(This only looks like a criminal mugshot. Well, aside from the jersey he’s wearing.)
Unfortunately, BYU LB Shiloah Te’o didn’t get that memo, and an August DUI arrest has come back to - metaphorically, we assure you - bite him. Proving the old “the coverup’s always worse than the crime” maxim true once again, head coach Bronco Mendenhall has made Te’o an ex-Cougar.
From the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE:
Mendenhall kicked Te’o off the team Tuesday night, saying only that the sophomore from Kahuku High in Laie, Hawaii, had violated team rules.
On Wednesday, The Tribune first reported that Te’o, 20, was arrested on suspicion of DUI and two other traffic violations Aug. 29, citing Provo City Justice Court documents. Charges were filed Sept. 18.
Asked why Te’o was allowed to play in BYU’s first five games, including the 14-13 win over Oklahoma just a week after the alleged DUI, Mendenhall said he did not learn of his player’s legal troubles until a few days ago.
Well, that didn’t go over very well. It’s a shame, because the DUI was pretty standard and didn’t get anybody hurt; it’s the type of thing that usually gets a player 2-4 weeks of suspension, even taking into the account that Te’o is underaged.
But lying to the coach about being involved in a major traffic incident like that, well, that’s extraordinarily bad judgment and enough for not only a dismissal from the team, but a full withdrawal from school (because really, why stay in Provo if you don’t have to?).
Te’o can probably still transfer to any other college that’ll have him - after all, the type of DUI he received is hardly a career-ender, especially as a first offense - but the stigma of violating his coach’s trust is probably going to haunt his football career for a lot longer than the DUI’s consequences will.
1:56 pm on October 8th, 2009
i have no problem with him getting kicked off the team.
3:52 pm on October 8th, 2009
he was arrested for “suspicion of dui”??? do they not know if he was drunk? Mormons are hippocrites, they all gamble, drink and have multiplewlives….. wait am i mormon???
7:22 pm on October 8th, 2009
i didn’t know melky cabrera attended BYU
1:28 pm on October 9th, 2009
I guess I’m a bad Mormon because I sleep in a bed, not a coffin. Mormon humor is tired and played and often incorrect. Gorgeous women are all SBB has going for it.
5:18 pm on October 20th, 2009
Juice, you’re an idiot.
6:30 pm on November 15th, 2009
this is horrible…..it was a suspicion of dui….Shiloah should just go back to hawaii and be a warrior….they could use the help…
10:34 pm on November 18th, 2009
uhm, Shiloah was born in Salt Lake City and moved to Laie when he was in jr. high school….he is not from Hawaii……maybe he should go to New Mexico or Louisiana Tech
5:03 am on February 20th, 2010
john feinga..you need to check yo facts…he been in hawaii since age 6…last time i checked, that wasnt high school do some more of your computer research before commenting on people you do not know
1:22 pm on March 30th, 2010
Adam J,
Get your facts straight before your write something, because your information about the your article and Mormons …WRONG.
“Mormons are like vampires who feed on your ability to enjoy worldly pleasures. Also, they sleep in coffins.”
Maybe you have only met some bad Mormons but they are still human and make their own decisions. Every member can choose what they want to do, sleep in coffins? you are an idiot.
3:14 pm on April 6th, 2010
DANG yal really gonnna hate on mormons like that..well if ur christian u would knoe that FORNICATION is a sin..BUT DO CHRISTIANS GET PUT DOWN FOR IT..?NOOOOO..!!
i bet all yall that commented are CHRISTIANS, or believe in tha bible..and about 99.9 % of yall hav fornicated before..its a usual thing to so called CHRISTIANs..
stop judging lil triccs..
10:11 am on August 11th, 2011
Tina, John Feinga was not the one who stated that this Te’o guy was not from Laie. Check YO facts! The poster was “get a life”. John Feinga encouraged him to go BACK TO HAWAII to be a Warrior at UH. How about you do some checking up on your eyes before YOU comment on people you don’t know!
10:13 am on August 11th, 2011
Tina, my wife just pointed out I’m the idiot! PLEASE do accept my apology. It was get a life who said that to John Feinga and it WAS John who said that about Te’o. That information John put out there although I think it’s someone else who is using John’s name had been published about “Get a life’s” Te’o friend. And, again Tina, please forgive me. I hate Mormon haters too and I used to be one of them, and still practice a different faith, but haters of all faiths are stupid!