Oklahoma AD: Doubtful Dorial Green-Beckham a Sooner if decision came after Ray Rice video
Would the Oklahoma Sooners accepted Dorial Green-Beckham to their football program and university today if they had a do over in the wake of the attention domestic violence is getting following former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice being videotaped assaulting his then-fiancee?
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That was the question posed by Pete Thamel and Thayer Evans of Sports Illustrated who wrote how schools could deal with troubled players in light of the Rice incident.
Green-Beckham was dismissed from the Missouri Tigers in the spring after he burst through the door of his girlfriend, breaking the drywall, and pushed her rommmate down four stairs and dragged his girlfriend out of the apartment by her neck according to the police report.
The roommate did not press charges and his girlfriend was reportedly uncooperative and text messaging records show her urging her roommate to not press charges because football was all he had.
Three months later Green-Beckham transferred to Oklahoma where his immediate transfer appeal was denied. But if there was a videotape of the incident like there was with Rice, would he even be practicing with the team and taking classes at Oklahoma?
"“If someone presented a case like that now, I think you would be fair to say that he probably wouldn’t be at Oklahoma,” Oklahoma Athletic Director Joe Castiglione said."
Castiglione said he does not regret accepting Green-Beckham but the scrutiny attached to such a move now would make such a situation like this one untenable at best.
“Just because of the attention and the cases now in the public consciousness, the university would have been unlikely to take on a situation like that,” Castiglione said.
Even if Oklahoma did not accept Green-Beckham another school would have because of his All-American potential at receiver.
Green-Beckham may never play for the Sooners anyway considering he is eligible for the 2015 NFL Draft, so you have to wonder why Castiglions and Oklahoma welcomed him with open arms in the first place.