Rachel Blount: Royce White is doing all the right things at Iowa State

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I got to know Royce pretty well as a senior and everyone was saying he was "doing all the right things" at Hopkins too.
 

If the Minnesota athletics dept had any idea how to handle things, this guy would still be a gopher.
 



Rosemountian said:
If the Minnesota athletics dept had any idea how to handle things, this guy would still be a gopher.
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I agree, he's the one guy that the way it worked out didn't make alot of sense.
 

Rosemountian said:
If the Minnesota athletics dept had any idea how to handle things, this guy would still be a gopher.
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I gotta say, I think Maturi handled the Royce situation absolutely horribly. However, Royce still quit, and he quit right before he would have been let back into the squad, in my opinion. The investigation was over, he would have gotten another couple games off, and been playing again. Royce doesn't get a lot of sympathy from me.
 

3 Mistakes were made:
1) Royce putting himself in bad situations and breaking the law
2) The greedy, self-absorbed U of M police dragging on a bogus "investigation"
3) Maturi admitting to suspending Royce only because of media pressure combined with what was going on with Trevor

Royce is certainly partially at fault, but due to the precedent of other athletes at the U being able to break the law (misdemeanors) and still play, one has to come to the conclusion that Royce White should be a Gopher had the situation been handled properly by others.
 

jmag21 said:
However, Royce still quit, and he quit right before he would have been let back into the squad, in my opinion. The investigation was over, he would have gotten another couple games off, and been playing again. Royce doesn't get a lot of sympathy from me.
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Are you sure? I thought the "investigation" (most loose use of that word in history) was dropped shortly after Royce quit and then they charged him with the bogus "trespassing."
 



josh087 said:
3 Mistakes were made:
1) Royce putting himself in bad situations and breaking the law
2) The greedy, self-absorbed U of M police dragging on a bogus "investigation"
3) Maturi admitting to suspending Royce only because of media pressure combined with what was going on with Trevor

Royce is certainly partially at fault, but due to the precedent of other athletes at the U being able to break the law (misdemeanors) and still play, one has to come to the conclusion that Royce White should be a Gopher had the situation been handled properly by others.
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Yep, pretty much sums it up. Royce was an idiot, but nothing that shouldn't have been able to be handled. No reason this had to turn out the way it did, and that's the fault of both sides.

And I would hope being away from Minneapolis helps Royce focus on his stuff, not dealing with his crew or any of the other influences he had while here.
 

If the Minnesota athletics dept had any idea how to handle things, this guy would still be a gopher.
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If this guy would have known how to handle himself to begin with, he would still be a Gopher.

It just wasn't meant to be.

Good to see he's doing so well though. Best of luck to him.
 

It's really gonna be hard to look at Royce playing at ISU. I'll probably be physically ill. No reason why he couldn't be at the U. Even he had to sit out this year, it would be nice to know he would suit up next season.
 

Hurray! He's behaved himself for a couple months! Let's have a party!
(...me throwing up in my mouth)
 



I have close to zero sympathy for him. Because if Royce doesn't steal stuff at the MOA and push down the security, then the computer thing is a non-issue or close to a non-issue.

Instead, he's someone who was onsite who recently was charged with theft. The two are connected.
 

Blizzard

Blizzard said:
If this guy would have known how to handle himself to begin with, he would still be a Gopher.

It just wasn't meant to be.

Good to see he's doing so well though. Best of luck to him.
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Agreed.

+1
 

anonymous said:
I have close to zero sympathy for him. Because if Royce doesn't steal stuff at the MOA and push down the security, then the computer thing is a non-issue or close to a non-issue.

Instead, he's someone who was onsite who recently was charged with theft. The two are connected.
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I have zero sympathy for him either. He got what he had coming to him. I do have sympathy for gopher fans who don't get to watch him play for the gophers because the Athletics Dept doesn't know how to handle things.
 

Blizzard said:
If this guy would have known how to handle himself to begin with, he would still be a Gopher.

It just wasn't meant to be.

Good to see he's doing so well though. Best of luck to him.
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Bingo.
 

There is nobody to blame but Royce for why he isn't still here. Royce needed to get away from mpls. and the people he was hanging around with the past few years. If he really has turned it around i'm glad and hope he continues because ive heard some stories on royce going back to his hopkins days and they are not good.
 

JohnnyGopher,

Sorry to bring it up here but in case you haven't read a few JUCO point guard names were thrown around today - Do you know if we're in on any JUCO's or if the Gophers are seriously considering signing one?
 

I take it he hasn't met any Iowa football players yet.
 


josh087 said:
Are you sure? I thought the "investigation" (most loose use of that word in history) was dropped shortly after Royce quit and then they charged him with the bogus "trespassing."
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Here's what I recall, and anybody can correct me: We get Royce, everybody rejoices; Royce steals some jeans and knocks down a security guard, everybody mourns; Royce is suspended, and is expected to get back soon; Royce is walking into dorm rooms, and one of his idiot companions takes a laptop, which is returned the next day, the campus police, looking for a chance to make some headlines, start a long investigation; Maturi suspends Royce for being in a dorm building; Royce makes youtube videos, complains a lot, and is generally a pain; Campus Police finally drop the investigation, after milking it for all they can get; Royce announces several days later that he doesn't feel safe on campus and is transferring. I think that's about right. If Royce would have waited, I honestly believe he would have been reinstated fairly quickly.
 


jmag21 said:
Here's what I recall, and anybody can correct me: We get Royce, everybody rejoices; Royce steals some jeans and knocks down a security guard, everybody mourns; Royce is suspended, and is expected to get back soon; Royce is walking into dorm rooms, and one of his idiot companions takes a laptop, which is returned the next day, the campus police, looking for a chance to make some headlines, start a long investigation; Maturi suspends Royce for being in a dorm building; Royce makes youtube videos, complains a lot, and is generally a pain; Campus Police finally drop the investigation, after milking it for all they can get; Royce announces several days later that he doesn't feel safe on campus and is transferring. I think that's about right. If Royce would have waited, I honestly believe he would have been reinstated fairly quickly.
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Wasn't he kicked out of a few campus dorms, too? Tubby continually said that Royce had things "to work on" before he could be reinstated. I never had the sense that Royce was the victim. Tubby rolled the dice on a guy with a checkered past and lost.
 

Rosemountian said:
I have zero sympathy for him either. He got what he had coming to him. I do have sympathy for gopher fans who don't get to watch him play for the gophers because the Athletics Dept doesn't know how to handle things.
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+1. Royce doesn't deserve sympathy, but the situation was handled very poorly by Maturi and the UMPD.
 

howeda7 said:
+1. Royce doesn't deserve sympathy, but the situation was handled very poorly by Maturi and the UMPD.
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Well, howie, I'll do my usual rebuttal to you in my role of Maturi apologist. You don't know everything that went on so it's pretty hard to unilaterally state that people handled things poorly. You seem a hell of a lot smarter than to believe the mall and the computer were the only issues. You've got Tubby hinting at other things, and one of the most plugged-in people on GH, JohnnyGopher, telling us there were other issues. Hell, I'm out in the semi-boonies and I've heard a couple of tales. Now maybe White has grown up down there, or maybe he hasn't changed and will screw up again. It'll be sort of interesting to see, but this rehashing by folks just to take another shot at Maturi gets old.
 

Mulligan said:
Well, howie, I'll do my usual rebuttal to you in my role of Maturi apologist. You don't know everything that went on so it's pretty hard to unilaterally state that people handled things poorly. You seem a hell of a lot smarter than to believe the mall and the computer were the only issues. You've got Tubby hinting at other things, and one of the most plugged-in people on GH, JohnnyGopher, telling us there were other issues. Hell, I'm out in the semi-boonies and I've heard a couple of tales. Now maybe White has grown up down there, or maybe he hasn't changed and will screw up again. It'll be sort of interesting to see, but this rehashing by folks just to take another shot at Maturi gets old.
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All possibly true. I should revise to say the U as a whole handled that particular incident poorly, whether Maturi or others. Maybe Royce would never have been allowed to play anyway due to other issues. Nevertheless, that particular incident was handled poorly.
 

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