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Originally Posted by HUbison
EDM, I'm a big Nicks fan (Carl, not Stevie), but the proverbial "character issues" scares me. You're a Husker, how scared should an NFL team be by his "issues"?
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Here's a report of what happened...
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Two current Nebraska football players and two former players with NFL Draft hopes got in trouble when police busted a party they were at Saturday night. Police say they ticketed Maurice Purify, 22, Carl Nicks, 22, Ben Martin, 19, and Mike V. Smith, 19, after they were called to 3124 Mickaela Lane in northwest Lincoln just before midnight Sunday about a loud party. Officer Katie Flood said police arrived to find the music could be heard from the sidewalk and more than 75 people inside. Empty beer cans littered the home. Flood said police cited 10 partygoers who remained after officers told everyone to leave, including the four. Smith was accused of maintaining a disorderly house, and Purify and Martin of being inmates of a disorderly house. Police arrested Nicks on suspicion of being an inmate of a disorderly house and failure to disperse after he wouldn’t leave. He since has been released.
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You can be the judge of it, but that sounds like a pretty harmless incident to me. These types of parties go on every single weekend here all over this college town... believe me, in Lincoln there isn't much else to do for recreation. A sad excuse but true. Downtown is littered with nothing but bars, restaurants, and college kids.
I'm not defending this behavior, in fact I've never been a bar hopper (can't stand the bar scene) and have given up drinking except for on special occasions. But to call a guy's character into question because he was caught "staying at" a party seems kind of weak to me. It never said he resisted and we don't know the details... but for instance, when my friends and I threw a party that was broken up (we didn't want so many people there anyway, sometimes it just "happens"), there was a group of about 10 closer friends that stayed hidden upstairs until the coppers left. I'm sure if they were eager enough to bust someone they could've stuck around, searched the house and charged those 10 friends with the same thing.
So to be frank, and without getting too political (or bringing up the possible racial side to this story), the youngsters here have nothing better to do and neither do the cops. It's not a good excuse at all and it was poor judgement on his part, but I don't believe Nicks is a repeat offender. Maurice Purify was, which is too bad, because I had hope for him as a late-round gem at WR.
I don't know all the details of this incident or have any inside information, but that's my opinion.
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-jake-