Syracuse Lacrosse Player Charged With DWI (And Much More)
by Sean Keeley on Oct 25, 2011 5:08 PM EDT
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Update: Drew is indefinitely suspended from the lacrosse team, per Coach Desko.
"We are aware of what happened and fortunately no one was injured," Desko said. "Kevin has been indefinitely suspended from the lacrosse team. We will continue to monitor this situation moving forward and handle the matter internally."
Also, JBren over at Orange44 breaks down Drew's legal situation and it don't sound good.
Original: It's been a while since I've written about Syracuse Orange lacrosse. I wish I didn't have to write about it for this...
Kevin Drew, whom you might remember moonlighted as a basketball walk-on briefly, was charged with a multitude of crimes Monday morning according to Syracuse.com.
A senior Syracuse University lacrosse player is facing driving while intoxicated, hit and run and resisting arrest charges following a crash in a car owned by the SU lacrosse coach early morning Monday in the Westcott Street area.
The coach that car was registered to? Head coach John Desko. Oh goody.
Drew and Tim Desko are roommates and apparently the car was owned by Papa Desko but belonged to Son Desko.
Here's the full list of charges, if you're scoring at home:
- Driving while intoxicated
- Resisting arrest
- Driving through a stop sign
- Speeding
- Hit and run
- Failure to comply
- Unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle
He learned everything he knows from Marcus Sales.
When asked how much he had been drinking, Kevin Drew told police, "A lot." No kidding.
He also got "one front kick strike to [his] chest area," adding injury to insult.
SU is apparently getting ready to respond to the incident. Drew was an Second Team All-Big East selection last season as a defensive middie. He scored six goals, tallied one assists and grabbed 33 ground balls.
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How come the only time lacrosse seems to be written about is when something negative happens?
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Yes he does
just a general note on most media sources, never anything good.
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by Marisa Ingemi on Oct 25, 2011 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions
No, I love Sean's work
This website (Other than Inlax and College Crosse) has more lax coverage than anyone in the network.
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by Marisa Ingemi on Oct 25, 2011 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Because...
Lacrosse players are nothing but drunk rapists and murderers.
And occasionally accomplices of The Lone Ranger. See: Jay Silverheels.
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by I miss DIAP! on Oct 25, 2011 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions
You obviously do not follow the sport
Say that to any professional player in NLL.
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by Marisa Ingemi on Oct 25, 2011 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm just used to defending the sport :)
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by Marisa Ingemi on Oct 25, 2011 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Lately whenever I see you you're either in an argument, or starting an argument
Such as the Over the Monster incident.
by Nick Petrilli on Oct 25, 2011 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
I rarely comment on many blogs lately
so you must be mistaken.
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by Marisa Ingemi on Oct 25, 2011 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I write a lot about SU Lax during the season
The offseason, however, is breeding ground for this stuff. Such is lacrosse.
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I understand, you always do a great job
It is just annoying that this is the only way lax ever gets publicity. Only time it was ever on front page of ESPN was the Boston Blazers scandal.
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by Marisa Ingemi on Oct 25, 2011 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm guessing its due to the fact
that speaking from a popularity perspective it is a fringe sport.
F#&% the Big East
This is true
but it’s just ironic how it makes headlines in negativity but never in anything positive.
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by Marisa Ingemi on Oct 25, 2011 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Because lacrosse has the connotation that only rich, white, privileged kids play the sport?
by Nick Petrilli on Oct 25, 2011 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Chazz Woodson
Shamel and Rhamel Bratton.
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by Marisa Ingemi on Oct 25, 2011 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Let's say then, perception, rather than connotation, as I think that's what was meant
And to anyone who doesn’t know jack diddly doo about lacrosse, that’s probably the perception. Sad but true.
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It is sad
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by Marisa Ingemi on Oct 25, 2011 6:08 PM EDT up reply actions
No
Connotation is what I was going for.
by Nick Petrilli on Oct 25, 2011 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I know this is going against the rich, white, privlidged kids argument
Which is correct, but the Brattons are a terrible example to use considering both of them got thrown of the team for the variety of issues they had, thus throwing fuel to the fire about the negative lacrosse stereotype
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by StealthTurkey on Oct 25, 2011 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I said connotation
And the connotation for the most part is true outside of Upstate NY, the Reservations, and Canada
by Nick Petrilli on Oct 25, 2011 10:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t really get how connotation even makes sense in this context. Sorry.
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The connotation of saying you play lacrosse is that your white and privileged?
by Nick Petrilli on Oct 26, 2011 3:02 AM EDT up reply actions
Which is not true at all if you payed attention to the sport in depth
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by Marisa Ingemi on Oct 26, 2011 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Because George Carlin was right.
The sport isn’t all that interesting. College soccer, hockey, lacrosse … all basically the same. Put the thingy in the net ( add in field hockey, water polo, etc.) If you are in a region where the sport is extremely popular, or if you are at school that is great at it, you get more pumped up then most, but after that, it just isn’t all that exciting to the average sports fan. Its a fun club activity at most colleges.
Basketball
Aren’t you just putting the ball-thingy in the net-thingy in basketball?
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by I miss DIAP! on Oct 26, 2011 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions
That is called MCLA, the club leagues in college
and the commenter above me is right in the fact that basketball is the same thing.
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by Marisa Ingemi on Oct 26, 2011 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Sorry, Lacrosse is infinity more interesting than soccer or hockey. Many people have not seen the sport but that doesn’t mean it is not interesting. There’s a difference between putting the thingy in the net twice a game versus 20 times a game.
And, in point of fact, plenty of people find all of the sports you have mentioned interesting.
“I don’t find this interesting” is a lot different from “this is not interesting”. You can go ahead and find it boring, but that doesn’t mean there is inherently nothing interesting about it. I find baseball painfully boring but there are people watching it all over the world so there must be something to it.
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So you meant to say, "Sorry, Lacrosse is infinity [sic] more interesting than soccer or hockey (to me)," right?
jus’ sayin’
F#&% the Big East
"infinity" was a spell check error
And no, I have no idea why I would have meant to say that to you. Or what exactly you’re “jus’ sayin’”.
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Mostly just bored and stiabbing stuff with sticks
but you summarized your post by clarifying that “I don’t find this interesting” is different from “this is not interesting” yet the title of your post is contradictory because you do not state it as your opinion (which I was attempted to indicate by adding “to me” at the end) – you state it as fact. Adding “Sorry” at the beginning of your declarative statement can come off as condescending, especially over the internet where subtleties of communication are so difficult to express. As an aside, you’d think that with all the time we (as a culture) spend on online communication we’d have come up with something better than smileys to denote tone and subtext, but there you go. At any rate, the [sic] was not intended as a slight, just convention to show I was quoting the original honestly. Spell check errors happen to everyone. “Jus’ sayin’” is one of those ways that I try to express subtext by using a folksy colloquialism so that you realize that my intention was to hopefully try to clarify if you meant to be condescending and then were hypocritical by contradicting your own thesis, or simply were taken slightly out of context. By using humor I intended to express the latter. I hope this clears things up.
F#&% the Big East
Sorry. Your post would have made more sense if I’d actually realized where the quotation marks were. I wasn’t trying to be hypocritical. I was trying to make the point that, just because Lacrosse, Soccer, and Hockey all involve putting a ball in a net doesn’t mean that they are all that similar of a viewing experience. So I probably should have said that instead of saying Lacrosse was more interesting.
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When I first saw that it was Coach Desko's car I had a mini-panic attack.
If we to tack NCAA violations on top of this that would suuuck. Still, well done, Kevin. I’m sure you would have us in the running for any Lax version of the Fulmer Cup.
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Oh great. A car owned by Coach Desko. I’m getting bad reminders of 1990.
Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
The car belonged to his roommate's father.
Of course, his roommate happens to be the coach’s son.
I don't see that this should be an issue
Drew was Timmy D’s roomie, and according to the article he took the car without either Coach or Tim knowing that he had done so. Shouldn’t be an issue, but with the psychotic enforcement boogeymen in the NCAA compliance office, who the hell knows.
Le sigh…
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I'm sure the attorney from the University advised him to stress that part ...
About the Desko’s not knowing he was driving the car. He is also charged with any crimes related to unauthorized use of an auto?
He lacrossed the line!
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by StealthTurkey on Oct 25, 2011 5:29 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
This is funny
because my website was almost named “Lacrossing the Line”
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by Matthew Ventolo on Oct 25, 2011 6:28 PM EDT reply actions
I wish I could say I was surprised. But since we are talking about Kevin Drew… yep, this sounds about right.
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Really?
I don’t know much about Kevin Drew, the person. Is this a pattern with him?
All I know is Kevin Drew, the lacrosse player, who is really f-ing good.
He’s not a goal scorer, but there’s probably no single player on the team that can match his skill set as a 2-way middie. Going to be really tough to replace him if/when he is unable to play this year.
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by Lots of Pulp on Oct 26, 2011 8:23 AM EDT up reply actions
Definitely a pattern.
Yes, he’s very good. Yes our d-mid and clearing game will suffer without him. However I do not think that losing him will be the difference between winning and losing a championship.
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I hope not but have to ask...
I know it is his son, and any normal person would say no, unfortunately normal people do not work for the NCAA. Could it be considered an improper benefits scenario that Tim drives that car. Obviously it is his dad, and my car is registered in my dads name too. But if you take it on a literal sense, the head coach of the Syracuse Lacrosse team gave his starting attackmen a car. I guess what I am saying is does the NCAA have some rule that says thats okay because it is a father-son deal.
Benefits Rule
It isn’t improper benefits if it comes from a family member or legal guardian. Of course there are all the stipulations about where you get whatever you are giving, but in the case that Desko is the legal owner of the car and his son is driving it is not improper.
Kind of like how Art Jones and Jon “Bones” Jones can give Chandler stuff or fly him out to one of Jon’s fights.
by GrossSuperman on Oct 26, 2011 8:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Hold up
- is related to Jon Jones? Really?
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by FeloniousPhunk on Oct 26, 2011 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions
Seriously?
You didn’t know this? Arthur, Jon and Chandler are brothers.
by GrossSuperman on Oct 26, 2011 10:27 AM EDT up reply actions
You didn't know this?!
Wow. I thought that was common knowledge around these parts.
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Btw, Jon says (or did say once) that Art would probably be a better MMA fighter than him if that's what he committed himself doing.
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No
I don’t follow MMA at all. Just enough to barely know who Jon Jones is, and even then, only cuz he’s been on SportsCenter a time or two.
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by FeloniousPhunk on Oct 26, 2011 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Coach Desko's Car?
Faculty loaning a student a car is dumb. But help me out here….Isn’t a student athlete using the coaches car a NCAA violation…improper benefits?
never mind
I didn’t catch he was the Coaches kid. I don’t have a problem with a parent giving their child a gift. Even if he is faculty. My bad.
It's funny because I think a lot of people - myself included - did that for a second
John Desko’s car??? Oh this can’t be good. Shit. Shit. Shit.
Wait, Tim’s on the team. Probably his car. OK then.
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by Lots of Pulp on Oct 26, 2011 1:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Yup
That’s exactly what I did until I heard that Tim was Kevin’s roommate.
by GrossSuperman on Oct 26, 2011 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions
hell I'm still doing it
even though everything sounds up and up…NCAA investigations make me nervous!
F#&% the Big East
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