It almost seems like a college football season isn’t complete without at least one scandal, and there have been multiple so far in this 2018 season. The newest college football scandal comes out of Fort Worth, Texas at Texas Christian University.
Kavontae Turpin, a senior star wide receiver at TCU has been kicked off the team following an arrest on Sunday for assaulting his girlfriend, or as the police document puts it “assault of a family member with bodily injury.” Turpin allegedly dragged his girlfriend, Raiesha Atwater, across a parking lot before slamming her into the ground.
TCU kicking Turpin off the team is the right thing to do. Men who assault their girlfriends or wives are the scum of the earth and Turpin deserves to be put in jail because he damn sure isn’t playing football anymore.
However, even though TCU kicked Turpin off the team, what makes them look bad is the fact that Turpin had been arrested back in March for the same reason, assaulting his girlfriend, Atwater.
TCU claims the football staff knew that Turpin had got in some trouble but that they didn’t know that it was a battery charge. When this happened in March, it didn’t garner any media attention, which is why Turpin remained on the team, but the recent charge against him caused old incidents to resurface.
Who’s to say if TCU head coach Gary Patterson and the rest of the coaching staff actually knew about Turpin abusing his girlfriend back in March. They could be telling the truth but I think it’s a classic case of a star player getting special treatment because of how he can perform on the football field.
Turpin has been one of TCU’s top receiving targets for the past four years and through seven games this season, he’s second on the team in yards from scrimmage (442) and touchdowns (3). I think Coach Patterson knows his football team would be worse without Turpin, so he kept quiet about his assault in order to keep him on the team, a move that if correct, makes Patterson look awful.
So TCU will finish the year without its star player, and that star just fizzled out.
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