Olander arrested on Spring Break

[huskymedic]

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-men/hc-olander-uconn-0322-20130321,0,4172361.story

"official charge is called tresspassing in a structure or conveyance. "Conveyance" means any motor vehicle, ship, vessel, railroad car, trailer, aircraft, or sleeping car; and to enter a conveyance includes taking apart any portion of the conveyance."

http://www.theday.com/article/20130321/INTERACT010103/130329917

"According to a Bay County jail spokesperson, Olander was arrested at 3:12 a.m. after being told several times to leave the beach property."

He needed hydrotherapy for his foot and was following MD orders. All legit!

 

[Perspective]

Enough is a enough. Kick Wolf and Tyler off the team. These weekly arrests are totally unacceptable and humiliating for the school. I don't care how minor the charge Ollie needs to make an example of both that this will not be tolerated.

This is what separates America from the rest of the world - the citizens understand and embrace the concept of innocent until proven guilty.

 

[Perspective]

I'm going to cold call the Panama City police and ask them if the prisoner has attempted to rebound a basketball.

And will an affirmative answer support or refute the identity of the prisoner as TO?

 

[JSB60]

I guess I'm just an old geezer out of touch with the new "zero tolerance" world, because I'm having a lot of trouble summoning up any moral outrage over the crime of trespassing.

 

[Bryan Lord]

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[BearJWS]

He should have ran.... oh wait! Hope he rebounds from this.

 

[Ts5034]

Sounds like its one of those 30 hours of community service deals and the slate is wiped clean. I would GUARANTEE that he was hammered but it does not say anything about underage drinking. He caught a huge break because if there was underage drinking and public intoxication, this would be a lot worse.

 

[Northbound]

I'm going to cold call the Panama City police and ask them if the prisoner has attempted to rebound a basketball.

If the answer is yes it's not UCONN's Tyler.

 

[imno1]

Here's the thing...this might be nothing. It might be more serious, but after what UConn has been thorough the past few years, we just don't need this. Ollie (by the way, Kevin Ollie is the coach now, not Calhoun) and Manuel need to get the message out that this kind of crap will not be tolerated. It is a new day at UConn and part of it is that we're returning to the standards of deportment that guys like Ray Allen lived up to. Best way to get that message across in my mind is to tell Wolf to find a new place to play (Hofstra?) and this knucklehead that he is welcome to walk on next fall but his days as a scholarship player are over.

Who is Skip? Beaver's father was Ward...and ace I apologize. You aren't one of the usual guys who excuse bad behavior.

I'm for whatever he's against or vise versa.

 

[CL82]

I don't think UConn can be too careful here. Simple trespass today can easily turn into Ponzi scheme/mass murder/illegal organ transplants tomorrow. Better cut him loose.

I never undstood the the whole organ transplant ponzi scheme. I mean you give up a kidney now but may be entitled to 5 kindneys later on. How does that really help you?

 

[ctchamps]

I know you don't agree with me on this, but this is not just some college kid. He could be one if he chose to be but he freely chose to play basketball at UConn. You do that and it comes with certain requirements. Because if fleudslipcon got arrested in Panama when you were in college, nobody but your friends and family gave a damn. Olander represents UConn. Whether he wants to or not. In return for the good things he gets, free room and board, tutition, coaching, academic advisors at his beck and call, all the stuff that goes with playing major college basketball, he has to take more responsibility than the typical college kid. and again, given what UConn has been through over the past few years, he needs to be treated harshly for failing to live up to those standards. Is it fair? Maybe not entirely. But again, he chose to play here.

Every student, faculty member, and university employee at UConn represent the university. I don't care one iota about image. It can never trump justice. The nazis were all about image. The human race fails when it focuses on image and not substance.

The university has policies in place to address student failings. Every student is treated the same way. An athlete is neither more or less important then the chemistry student. They are treated equal under the law the same as would be the case of a black Jewish woman or a white Christian man. They all have obligations to themselves, their families and the university. Yes the athletes from a successful program get much more exposure than others in the student body or comparable athletes in unsuccessful programs. That's not justice. That's voyeurism. We love to see the mighty fall. I think a more noble cause would be to change this human failing than to worry how the university is perceived because TO got drunk and passed out somewhere he didn't belong.

 

[ctchamps]

He should have ran.... oh wait! Hope he rebounds from this.

Hope he rebounds better than he did this season! I'm sure your pun was intended.

 

[SeattleHoop]

Trespassing!? Olander will be fine. I don't see a huge problem with it. I didn't read article though

 

[UConnErik]

Before we criticize Tyler for his poor judgment, we need to see a photo of the females he presumably was pursuing when his grievous trespass took place. Doesn't Kate Upton live in Florida?

 

[ctchamps]

Before we criticize Tyler for his poor judgment, we need to see a photo of the females he presumably was pursuing when his grievous trespass took place. Doesn't Kate Upton live in Florida?

I heard he will plead guilty. He doesn't have a leg to stand on and that was based on his on court performance before the spring break (to his foot)!

 

[huskiesnyc]

Kevin Duffy ‏@KevinRDuffy

5m​

#UConn has seen better stats: Dating back to 05-06 roster, 9 of 45 scholarship players have been arrested. That's 20 percent.

This is a HUMILIATING statistic. A slap on the wrist 2 game suspension isn't getting it done

 

[Jerry1714]

Hardly. Hofstra alone disproves your point. Just google "basketball player arrested" and hundreds of articles come up. We are hardly alone when it comes to young entitled college basketball players acting like idiots.

Since 05-06 team 20% of our scholarships players have been arrested. Hofstra might be worse but not many others are.

 

[kyle]

Over the same time, I wonder what percentage transferred.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

This is what separates America from the rest of the world - the citizens understand and embrace the concept of innocent until proven guilty.

What does this have to do with how his basketball coach treats him?

 

[cjd05002]

Was talking to my brother who is also in Panama City (friends with Tyler's gf) and saw the entire incident. So Olander's girlfriend is staying at a different hotel from him and apparently the hotel has a policy of no guests after 10 pm. Tyler's girlfriend tried to sneak him in (don't see how that possible) and the security stopped him and he refused to leave.

Not a huge deal but still embarrassing nonetheless.

 

[Fantana]

We are assuming he was drunk....the kid is not the brighest bulb...could have been sober and stupid. But agree his transgression is not worth hanging the kid over.

 

[StoweD210]

Was talking to my brother who is also in Panama City (friends with Tyler's gf) and saw the entire incident. So Olander's girlfriend is staying at a different hotel from him and apparently the hotel has a policy of no guests after 10 pm. Tyler's girlfriend tried to sneak him in (don't see how that possible) and the security stopped him and he refused to leave.

Not a huge deal but still embarrassing nonetheless.

It's a lot easier to say this being way beyond college age, but it I don't get the insistence to stay when some authority figure (security, cops, etc) has told you to leave. This was part of Wolfe's run-in with the law also.

They're not going to change their mind and it's only going to get worse for you if you stay. As much as it sucks, sometimes you have to take the Lord Humongous's advice and "just walk away."

 

[BoatShow]

One of my former coworker's dad is a UConn cop and he said that Olander has had run ins the cops nearly every weekend on campus and is the most obnoxious kid on the team when it comes to not knowing when to quit. Just pure entitlement complex.

 

[Chin Diesel]

It's a lot easier to say this being way beyond college age, but it I don't get the insistence to stay when some authority figure (security, cops, etc) has told you to leave. This was part of Wolfe's run-in with the law also.

They're not going to change their mind and it's only going to get worse for you if you stay. As much as it sucks, sometimes you have to take the Lord Humongous's advice and "just walk away."

Funny enough, but one of the guys who used to wrestle under the name Lord Humongous is a guy by the name of Jeff Van Kamp who has been a long time sheriff's deputy a few miles to the west of Panama City in Escambia County. He was the face of CrimeStoppers for a very long time.

And you are correct that these college kids need to learn that 99.999999999999999% of the time when a law enforcement officer or security officer tells you to leave, shut up, quiet down or otherwise change your behavior, it's in your best interest to do so. It's not worth the pissssinnngg match that you are about to engage in. And they, along with the colleagues, can pissss longer than you can tread water (urine).

 

[Chin Diesel]

Was talking to my brother who is also in Panama City (friends with Tyler's gf) and saw the entire incident. So Olander's girlfriend is staying at a different hotel from him and apparently the hotel has a policy of no guests after 10 pm. Tyler's girlfriend tried to sneak him in (don't see how that possible) and the security stopped him and he refused to leave.

Not a huge deal but still embarrassing nonetheless.

No, not a huge deal, but a dumb move.

Every hotel along the gulf coast has the same policy regarding registered guests only. Usually there's wrist bands and other stuff to identify who belongs and who doesn't.

And yes, security (many of whom are off-duty sheriff's earning extra money) has seen and heard every trick and lie that 19-22 year old college kids can come up with.

 

[selles]

Kevin Duffy ‏@KevinRDuffy

5m​

#UConn has seen better stats: Dating back to 05-06 roster, 9 of 45 scholarship players have been arrested. That's 20 percent.

This is a HUMILIATING statistic. A slap on the wrist 2 game suspension isn't getting it done

Wait, what? Who's gotten a slap on the wrist 2 game suspension? Off the top of my head I can think of Williams (semester), Price (year), Jamal Coombs-McDaniel (transferred), Wolf (rest of season), Dyson (several games), Wiggins (not sure), and Olander (just happened). Not sure who the other 2 are. Anyway, there have been some significant penalties.

 

[swami7774]

Kevin Duffy ‏@KevinRDuffy

5m​

#UConn has seen better stats: Dating back to 05-06 roster, 9 of 45 scholarship players have been arrested. That's 20 percent.

This is a HUMILIATING statistic. A slap on the wrist 2 game suspension isn't getting it done

Somewhere in the early-mid part of the last decade we began morphing into Cincinnati East. Too many high-talent, low-character recruits. Olander's arrest,by itself, is no big deal. But it just adds to the growing perception that the Husky uniform should include vertical stripes.

 

[Fishy]

If the answer is yes it's not UCONN's Tyler.

And then we immediately offer that Tyler a scholarship.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Much Ado About Nothing. Unfortunate that the stupid press found out. This sort of thing should be: plead no contest, pay $200 and go home a little wiser. I'm sure Tyler is just one of 100 kids from UConn alone that will be arrested this spring break for stupid things like this.

I blame Emmert. He should be at some tournament site.

 

[jleves]

Much Ado About Nothing. Unfortunate that the stupid press found out. This sort of thing should be: plead no contest, pay $200 and go home a little wiser. I'm sure Tyler is just one of 100 kids from UConn alone that will be arrested this spring break for stupid things like this.

I blame Emmert. He should be at some tournament site.

I heard a weird stat on the radio today (nothing like desert radio between Las Vegas and LA). 30% of people by the time they are 23 have been arrested.