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just realized this happened 3 weeks ago. It took them this long? Its just a fight, boys will be boys. Make him spend the night in TC and move on.

Everyone knows to get off the court when you lose, don’t whine like a little girl. Also you should know not to throw a basketball at any man’s head much less a competitive, fiery, 19 year old D-1 football player. Then you file a police report when you get punched in the mouth? What the hell did you expect? I see skirmishes happen all the time at gregory and even seen some involving the football players but it usually doesnt amount to much. I guess a punch in the face is crossing the line but don’t instigate a fight and then call the police when you get what you ask for. Mack will probably have to do something about this since you can’t just let your student athletes punch other students in the face, but man what a cowardly move by this kid.

I’ve played many games and I was a supervisor at Gregory….this isn’t a common thing, but I guarantee it happens more times than you think….dude better go into a monastery to avoid the backlash…I got into a tussel with Romance Taylor….ugh…I still hate that guy like no other Texas Player. I fouled him as he was driving in for a dunk(no easy baskets!)….he was upset and we exchanged some words, it was over. Easy as that…

Thanks, all.

Outside of a club on 6th street. I gotta tell you. Dude was about as nice as they come. He had asked if me and my girl had gone it yet, we politely answered no, so he kept talking to us.

Vaccaro is a good kid, or seemed to be just from talking to him for a few minutes. This is a stupid fight…

So the guy admits that he first assaulted Vaccaro by hitting him in the head with a basketball, and then when Vaccaro retaliates it is Vaccaro’s fault.? Huh

Vaccaro’s alleged comment that the guy was always there looking to start a fight suggests this type of incident to me:

I imagine Fuhrman is shooting hoops and hogging a court because he can and was there first. Totally fine and cool. But, there is gym etiquette.

A group of 6 or more come up and ask him for the Court so they can play 3 on 3 or 4 on 4, or 5 on 5. He says no, cuz he was there first. Uncool move on his part. The group with Vacarro start turning up the heat on him by shooting all their balls whenever he shoots. He gets frustrated and wings his ball at Vacarro.

Gym etiquette is that you yield to the group. Your choice is either (a). go to another open court with single players practicing their shot, or (b). try to get another person to join the group and play on the other team to keep them even numbered—if the group is cool with that. Etiquette is for them to say sure unless of course they already had 5 on 5 OR if you are not at the same level of game. (In which case you shouldn’t have asked unless you are the one way better than them anyway).

Just my speculation. But, Vacarro, being a schollie football player, definitely should have let one of his other friends land the punch.

1. Shades of grey. Unless you were physically there with an eyewitness account, there’s no telling whether the instigation was on the part of the student or on Vaccaro. It’s likely that both sides share some blame. Without knowing exactly what happened, let’s not pile on the student just because he happened to file charges against a football player on a team we care deeply about.
2. Not our standard. Like it or not, football players are held to a higher standard. We’ve seen that with recent incidents (Kindle text crashing, Brandon Carter tweeting). Vaccaro has to know that the privilege of playing football for the University of Texas is not without its responsibilities, a fact that I’m sure Mack will remind him of repeatedly.

I’ve been there and done what Vaccaro did. The report says one punch, that’s what I would call a message punch. If he really wanted to put him the hospital he would of threw a few more punches. I think Furhman received the message not to mess with him anymore. I bet furhman didn’t throw another basketball at him after that message punch.

Anyway, Vacarro is a beast on the football field. We gotta find a way to get him on the field either at Safety or DB. The guy can really bring the wood and flies all over the place with wreck-less disregard for his body. Seems to have good hands also.

I mean, I can’t fault him for losing it after getting clocked in the head with a ball, but he’s got to think about losing his privilege of being a UT football player by taking such actions.

It’s a shame that Fuhrman wouldn’t get punished for chucking a basketball at someone’s face. Isn’t that technically assault also? He clearly provoked Vaccaro.

What are we becoming… a nation of wimps? This is someone who is looking for attention. He is getting some now I’ll bet. Vaccaro should have thoght before he threw the punch, but when i was 19 I would have done the same thing. Not saying it’s right, but c’mon… a legal matter? Giive me a break.

I like Horn Brains list of rules, but what do the official team rules state? I hope Kenny hasn’t hurt himself with the coaches. I think he faces more consequence there than he will with the courts.

It does kind of let us know the kind of fire Vaccaro has. He just needs to focus and channel that to the playing field. The Eyes of Texas Are Upon he and all athletes. It comes wiht the territory.

who got into a fight with a UT football player at an off campus frat party, the football player had jumped one of my friend’s friends. Long story short, the football player got trounced as my friend is a 250 pound ninja from Okinawa Japan, he literally is not someone yo be messed with. Nicest guy in the world, just don’t piss him off. But for inexplicable reasons the school got involved and tossed my friend out of school while levying no penalties upon the football player. It’s funny because to this day he loathes everything about UT because he got screwed.