Backup punter stabs rival in kicking leg!

[ISiddiqui]

:eek: :eek:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2585781

Northern Colorado backup punter arrested

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="PADDING-TOP: 10px" vAlign=top><!-- begin leftcol --><!-- template inline -->GREELEY, Colo. -- The University of Northern Colorado's reserve punter was arrested Tuesday, accused of stabbing his rival in his kicking leg.
Mitch Cozad, a sophomore from Wheatland, Wyo., allegedly attacked starting punter Rafael Mendoza in a parking lot in Evans on Monday night, Evans police Lt. Gary Kessler said.
Mendoza, the Bears' first-string punter from Thornton, was treated and released from the North Colorado Medical Center Monday night. Coach Scott Downing said Mendoza will not punt for UNC in Saturday's game at Texas State University.
"I don't know how long he'll be out because I haven't talked to the doctor," Downing said.
Cozad, Mendoza and freshman Zak Bigelow had been in a three-way race for the starting punter's job in preseason training. Mendoza has averaged 37.6 yards per punt on nine punts in the two games so far this season.
Cozad is facing second-degree assault charges and was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday for a bond hearing. He was suspended from the team, evicted from his residence and expelled from school on Tuesday, The Greeley Tribune reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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This guy had to know that he'd get caught. What, does he want to be known as the Tonya Harding of college football?!

[Maple Leafs]

Sounds like Zak Bigelow is the big winner here.

[ISiddiqui]

Yep... my thought exactly. Maybe he's the mastermind ;).

[rkmsuf]

Sissy punter fighting.

[kingnebwsu]

This guy needs a swift kick in the pants...

[Crim]

Meh. A story about university athletic misdeeds in the state of Colorado and this is the best the Associated Press could come up with? Where're the drunk hookers?!?

[Ksyrup]

Note to self...when planning to injure your competition for a kicking job, don't:

1. Stab him only in the leg

2. Act in a manner such that another kicker on the team clearly notices your hatred and jealousy of him

3. Ask yet another kicker on your team (how many freaking kickers does 1 team need?!) for his address

4. Use your car, with the license plate 8-KIKR, in the commission of the crime (it was covered with tape during the crime, but someone saw him pull the tape off shortly after the crime and memorized the plate)

Idiot.

[kcchief19]

The AD used to work for the Royals and Kansas Jayhawks, and the coach was a coach in the KC area too, so this has been covered a bit here. The AD did a radio interview yesterday and made the silly comment that while this was serious, it was being blow out of proportion because it was the football team -- he said if this had just been two regular college kids, the media wouldn't care.

I assume he means that where he comes from -- KU -- college kids stab each other all the time. I know if I were going to KU, I'd stab somebody.

[Klinglerware]

Ping: Todd Sauerbrun

[kcchief19]

(how many freaking kickers does 1 team need?!)
It's more of a question when you realize this is a Division II school in the process of moving to Division I and getting ready to play I-AA football. A D-II/I-AA school has three punters -- and people wonder why fans of Title IX and men's wrestling are pissed all the money goes to football -- so a D-II school can go three-deep at punter.

[Logan]

Anybody who's a fan of Title IX should be shot, in my opinion.

Sorry.

[Young Drachma]

This kid went to the University of Wyoming before going to Northern Colorado this year. The coach at Wyoming, Joe Glenn (who incidentally, won a DII Nat'l Title at UNC (as they call it out here..) said this during his weekly show that he does at the dining hall here at the University.

"I wish that coach had called me. Because I'd have told him that kid wasn't college punter material. He was terrible."

[LionsFan10]

For anybody who hasn't read the story already, apparently the Colorado prosecutors are looking to file attempted first-degree murder charges against the punter. Interesting. I'm not sure about attempted first-degree murder though ...

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[Joe]

For anybody who hasn't read the story already, apparently the Colorado prosecutors are looking to file first-degree murder charges against the punter. Interesting. I'm not sure about first-degree murder though ...

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Attempted...

[LionsFan10]

Attempted...

Right, my mistake.