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Goodell in Austin over the weekend. On Saturday night he visited a domestic-violence hotline that the league is helping to fund in the wake of the firestorm. On Sunday morning, Goodell and the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations, Troy Vincent, had breakfast with 10 former players, including Ty Detmer, now a high school football coach in Austin. Later in the morning Goodell and Vincent met with Texas Longhorns coach Charlie Strong—who has dismissed nine players from the Texas program for disciplinary reasons since taking the job last January—to hear about being an old-school coach in a new-school era.
Vincent said Sunday night that the meeting with players echoed some of the same themes they heard last Monday with the players group in New York. “Ty Detmer is a high school coach,†Vincent said, “and he said, ‘What kind of message are you sending when those two Pittsburgh players get arrested one day [Le’Veon Bell and LeGarrette Blount, for marijuana use in a car] and are playing the next day?’ â€
At one point during the meeting with Strong, Vincent said, the coach pointed at a picture in his office of his two daughters. He quoted Strong as saying, “This is a constant reminder to me. I just think about my daughters. No means no. Here, if you put your hands on a woman, you are through.â€
Said Vincent: “The man is taking a stand. He made it clear that playing at Texas is a privilege, not a right. Basically, you have to be willing to let your best player go.†That was the message, too, from Hall of Fame linebacker Mike Singletary in the players meeting last week.
http://mmqb.si.com/2014/09/29/nfl-mvp-week-4-monday-morning-qb/2/
Vincent said Sunday night that the meeting with players echoed some of the same themes they heard last Monday with the players group in New York. “Ty Detmer is a high school coach,†Vincent said, “and he said, ‘What kind of message are you sending when those two Pittsburgh players get arrested one day [Le’Veon Bell and LeGarrette Blount, for marijuana use in a car] and are playing the next day?’ â€
At one point during the meeting with Strong, Vincent said, the coach pointed at a picture in his office of his two daughters. He quoted Strong as saying, “This is a constant reminder to me. I just think about my daughters. No means no. Here, if you put your hands on a woman, you are through.â€
Said Vincent: “The man is taking a stand. He made it clear that playing at Texas is a privilege, not a right. Basically, you have to be willing to let your best player go.†That was the message, too, from Hall of Fame linebacker Mike Singletary in the players meeting last week.
http://mmqb.si.com/2014/09/29/nfl-mvp-week-4-monday-morning-qb/2/
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