You Know It’s Football Season
September 13th, 2006 at 12:47 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesWhen back-up punters start stabbing starting punters in the leg at Division II schools.
Mitch Cozad, a sophomore from Wheatland, Wyo., allegedly attacked starting punter Rafael Mendoza in a parking lot in Evans on Monday night, Evans police Lt. Gary Kessler said.
Cozad, Mendoza and freshman Zak Bigelow had been in a three-way race for the starting punter’s job in preseason training. Mendoza has averaged 37.6 yards per punt on nine punts in the two games so far this season.
Cozad is facing second-degree assault charges and was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday for a bond hearing. He was suspended from the team, evicted from his residence and expelled from school on Tuesday, The Greeley Tribune reported.
That’s one way to make it up the depth chart.
September 13th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Not everyone has an ex to have the competition kneecapped for them, you know.
September 13th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
I think Doug is on to something here.
September 13th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
I find it amusing that he was evicted from his residence and expelled from school but only suspended from the team. So he’ll have to sit out what.. a few weeks?
September 13th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Gosh, that Mendoza guy is such a WUSS. Suggested reading: Machiavelli’s “The Prince”.
If you have to squash or maim those who are standing in your way to success, it’s totally justified…
And Doug, you deserve to get your ass kicked. I’d stay away from skating rinks or mud-wrestling palaces for a while…
September 13th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Mitch Cozad…… from Wheatland, Wyo.?
You have to be making that up.
stik
September 14th, 2006 at 12:20 am
I only go to mud wrestling palaces in disguise anyway, Tonya. But even still, maybe I should just back off for a bit.
September 14th, 2006 at 12:27 am
Doug… You bastard! You jaked my line! I was just about to declare that Mitch Cozad is just a poor man’s Jeff Gilooly. But, it was Shane Stanton that laid the pipe to that ingrate, Nancy Kerrigan’s knee (“Why meeeeeee?!?! Why meeeeee?!?!”). Cozad at least took matters into his own hands instead of hiring some 3rd string linebacker goon to do it for him.
September 14th, 2006 at 12:35 am
Don’t take it so hard, YS. I consider it a small miracle that I got to take such an obvious shot in the first place, and you showed up 7th. I would have thought that Preston of all people would refer to an event like this getting “Hardinged”. I clicked “Speak!” still dazed with disbelief.
September 14th, 2006 at 12:47 am
I can’t believe the suspended Mitch! What a dumb idea. Now they don’t have a punter at all!!! Although, it should be noted that with an average of 37.6 yards per punt, they pretty much didn’t have one before the stabbing either.
I guess they could offer some wino a scholarship and a meal card to come punt for them…or would that violate NCAA rules?
September 14th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
The NCAA has rules? WOW