Coaches say spitting incident closed
Nebraska coach Bo Pelini and Mizzou coach Gary Pinkel both said the case was closed on charges that a Nebraska player spit on Chase Daniel during Saturday’s game.
“We communicated with Missouri, and investigated and addressed the allegations and at this point it’s a moot issue,” Pelini said.
Asked if there was any truth to what Daniel’s charges, Pelini replied: “It’s a lot of ‘he said-he said’ — you know what I’m saying? I don’t think either coaching staff was really aware of it and we did our investigation and it’s over.”
Asked if it ever became clear which player was accused, he said: “It was a little bit gray.”
Pinkel said, “We’ve communicated with Nebraska (Sunday), and as far as I’m concerned from a Missouri standpoint, it’s a dead issue. I’m not going to comment on it.”
Daniel and the MU players meet the media this afternoon in Columbia. If they have any more to say, we’ll let you know.
Why would Daniels say something like this after such a big win? It just makes him look dumb and whiny.
It’s “Daniel”. No “s”.
“Why would Daniels say something like this after such a big win? It just makes him look dumb and whiny.”
What an ignorant comment. If you knew anything about Chase’s character and what type of player/person he is you would know he wouldn’t lie about something like this. Chase gets fired up enough to where he doesn’t need any extra motivation for a game, especially one against Nebraska on national tv. If Chase says a player spit on him, I for one believe him. And as far as Pelini claiming it to be a “he said-he said” situation, then that’s fine by me, but I’m sure it happened.
Oh well, we’re done with Nebraska, time to focus on Oklahoma St.
I agree sounds like a high school player. Could be one of the reasons he wont be playing on sundays.
Well if pellini says noting happened then you got to believe him. wait didnt he say that Mizzou wouldnt score on Saturday? hmmmm
2 things society frowns on, liars and thieves. Chase is batting .500 as far as we know. Wouldn’t be shocked if he is batting 1.000.
A better question to ask than:
Why would Daniels say something like this after such a big win?
is
Why would Daniels say something like this after such a big win (If it wasn’t true)?
If mizzou lost, I might think, well he was just bitter, but they Stomped Nebraska, I don’t see any reason he would say it unless it was true.
It just makes him look dumb and whiny.
OK. I don’t know what you do for a living, but you say you just edged out a co-worked for a promotion and they come up and spit on you. You would just say oh well thats ok for him to spit on me, I won. I don’t think so. You’re headed straight to HR. (Or better yet deck the guy). I wouldn’t advise decking the guy for Chase then he gets thrown out of the game, maybe thats what the nebraska player hoped for. However, no way do you just let it slide just because you won.
The score pretty well says it all - I would think Nebraska wouldn’t want to rile Chase Daniel or the other Tigers just before the start of the game!
Well last year he came out after a win and called thier defense high school. Certainly not a classy comment from a winning team player. Now this year he says that Nebraska was dirty and spit on him. Seems it is something every year with Nebraska and Chase. Did they not recruit him and he wanted to go there?
Look at all the idiotic Nebraska fans coming here to post garbage. Talk about confirming a stereotype of Nebraksa Cornhusker fans..
Then again, I guess I can’t blame them for resorting to posting dumb stuff on internet forums, when their team gets blown out in the home stadium in front of the entire nation on prime time TV.
“Well last year he came out after a win and called thier defense high school. ”
Thats true, and if you do a little research, the Nebraska defensive coordinator from last year is… you guessed it… now coaching a high school team in Wisconsin. The truth hurts, doesn’t it.
The story just basically says both sides are moving on, there was no real denial as the headline states. Far more disturbing was the video of a Nebraska player cold cocking a Mizzou fan after the game. Someone here posted the link to the video on youtbue yesterday. Both teams are leaving the field and this one player just knocks a civilian out cold, you see the hit and the guy just lying motionless on the ground. I’d call it criminal assault depending on what other witnesses might report. It was quite shocking and this is not being addressed while the silly spitting incident is.
I just am not sure that this really happened for a couple of reasons. If this happened during pre-game warmups like Chase claims, I just don’t know how no one other than Chase saw it. A nationally televised game and the pre-game is full of players from both teams, coaches standing on or near the 50 yard line, officials on the field, and media types all over the place. I am just not sure how anyone could not see this happen.
In the pile or something after the play, then maybe, but before the game…probably not. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense and definitely seems like a bunch of “he said, he said.” Chase does look like a bit of a whiner though.
Here’s the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKvq6FVBMBk
Nebraska’s response seems to lay it on the fan, which seems way out of place. Of course, we can’t tell whether the fan was yelling obscenities at the player or making some aggressive move off camera. Based on what is shown, it’s assault.
I don’t believe it happened, which makes Daniel a liar.
The incident on Youtube has Brad Smith in the video…
The Post headline says “No Spit - Case Closed”. But the story is not clear. Pinkel needs to clear the Mizzou side. If Daniel lied - an apology is in order. The lie is as bad as spitting. If not correct the Post headline, defend your player’s integrity - then Pinkel can say the case is closed.
Why does he not come out and give a name? That makes no sense unless he felt backed into a corner by the reporter asking clarification on “dirty play”. Seems he likes drama (and mucas, dry, not wet)! He swayed all Nebraska Heisman voters in another direction after those narcissistic comments.
Come on people. Chase Daniel is not going to make this up. There is no reason to just fabricate this out of thin air. I’m sure it was a Nebraska player trying to get under his skin and crossed the line. Chase does the classy thing and doesn’t name the player and now you want to call him a liar.
why would he make something up like this.He wouldn’t and he felt as a leader in the college football that it needed to be addressed. I think it shows class, if he was ignorant he would of spit on the guy that spit on him.
It’s just amazing that on a football field full of players, officials, coaches, and media NO ONE ELSE SAW THIS HAPPEN. That is the amazing thing. All signs are pointing to a fabrication.
— Tim
8:30 pm October 6th, 2008…. Tell me why that is a classy thing not to name the player - to me that’s so high schoolish - “I’m not going to rat out”. B.S. - You lay down an accusation like that you better man up and disclose the perpetrator. It’s too bad becuz he just kicked the crap out of Nebraska, the first Mizzou QB to go into Lincoln and win since Jimmy Carter was President - that’s what he should have been talking about. He made it up and if you can’t infer that from both coaches’ comments - you’re a moron.
http://www.insidestl.com/TimMcKernan/tabid/61/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1183/Default.aspx#SlideFrame_1
Check it out and decide for yourself. Quit being fans and start being analytical.