LSU’s Tyrann Mathieu dismissed from team
LSU defensive back Tyrann Mathieu has been dismissed from the team, head coach Les Miles announced Friday.
Miles said Mathieu, a.ka. “The Honey Badger” was dismissed for an undisclosed violation of team rules. Miles said the violation was a school and team violation.
Miles said Mathieu was not yet eligible to turn pro, but he believed Mathieu “still has a bright future.”
Miles said it was a “longstanding rule” that Mathieu violated.
LSU enters the season with a preseason No. 1 ranking, but the loss of Mathieu removes one of the Tigers’ top playmakers, both on defense and special teams, where he was one of the top kick returners in the nation.
“It’s difficult at best,” said Miles, who called Mathieu “a quality, quality guy who had behavior issues.”
Matthieu was suspended for last season’s Auburn game for reportedly violating the team’s drug policy.
Mathieu becomes the third high-profile player to be dismissed from a Top 10 team in less than two months, joining Georgia’s Isaiah Crowell and Florida State’s Greg Reid.
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CubanDawg
August 10th, 2012
4:01 pm
@ 51 arrests in four years why do you continue to LIE. Please list the 51 players arrested in 4 years or change your lying blog name. Better yet, go back to the bug blog.
Vince Doodley
August 10th, 2012
4:04 pm
Guess the Homey Badger REALLY dont care.
Vince Doodley
August 10th, 2012
4:06 pm
Guess AJ Macaroon over at Bama wont have anybody to have a twitter war with now.
true
August 10th, 2012
4:06 pm
Funny how the haters turn the news of HB into bashing UGA.
Haters have no life whatsoever!
see ya on the football field losers
August 10th, 2012
4:07 pm
GA will beat all your asses this year
Black G Dawg from Peanutville
August 10th, 2012
4:12 pm
Mr. Altahama Dawg so sorry! Perhaps I did misspeak! I was referring to said “G” which is on the University of Georgia Bulldogs game uniform helmets. Perhaps you were speaking of another combination of the University of Georgia Bulldogs Football Team logo! There are so many combinations I must have confused one or the other. So sorry! Maybe this Sports Dawg Blog Friendship Network is not for me or I am not skilled in the ways of this particular Sports Dawg Blog Friendship Network. Sorry for my intrusion. My father said I should not waste my time Sports Blogging but I enjoy it very much! Perhaps i should look to you-one who obviously spends all day making terrific biting comments about our foes the Gayturds and War Beagles. How do you do it? Are you gainfully employed? Surely you cannot be! Are you still wearing your pajamas? Are you in your Mother’s basement? Do tell!
catlady
August 10th, 2012
4:14 pm
A talented football player. Needs to learn that he must follow the same rules as the rest. LSU will miss his skills.
Tim
August 10th, 2012
4:14 pm
Does the honey badger care now?
NotSure
August 10th, 2012
4:15 pm
I gotta be honest though, If he got kicked off the team for failing a few tests for weed only I think it’s absurd. I see no reason for weed pee-testing at either the college or pro levels. It’s an invasion of privacy IMO. Now if he got caught smoking it or selling it out of his dorm room that would be different.
The Truth
August 10th, 2012
4:18 pm
I’m a UGA fan and a Tech fan also, but I have to admit that Georgia only won one national championship in 1980 and the only reason they won that year was because they had the best college player in the history of the NCAA (Herschel Walker) and Tech won their last championship in 1990 and have won it a total of four times. For all the bragging the UGA fans do, you would think they were the best NCAA football team of all time! LOL.
Wow
August 10th, 2012
4:21 pm
The Truth has spoken!!!
Wow
August 10th, 2012
4:23 pm
I guess UGA “CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH”
@spencaman
August 10th, 2012
4:23 pm
The Truth – Um, I think you got lost techie… this article is about LSU, not your tickle team
Dennis
August 10th, 2012
4:23 pm
after what went on at Penn State, AD’s & coaches are now keeping a short leash, which is much needed…I guess in some respects, college football is getting the message. Great talent with poor character choices + lack of discipline = future destruction for these guys, so hopefully they get the message and get their lives straightened out.
oldfart
August 10th, 2012
4:24 pm
Most of the bloggers here seem to represent their schools poorly. Hahira Middle, Church St. Elementary, Carrollton Jr. High…. Nice to see that much like Jethro Bodine some of you can at least cipher though. You do have a lot of blind support for your chosen NFL minor league teams, I will give you that.
The kid has hurt his draft position after he lays out this year but will now get to shop around for agents and take an advance over the table. Smoke part of it up for a year and then play in the NFL. Or did some of you think he might have stayed for a post-graduate degree? even an associate degree?
Aunt Esther
August 10th, 2012
4:24 pm
“The truth shall set you free, Oh glory!!”
St. Bernard
August 10th, 2012
4:26 pm
I think we have enough roster spots to give one to Honey Badger and Reid. Just like Miles helped out Mettenberger.
BG
August 10th, 2012
4:28 pm
Honey, Loan a brother a 20 sack. LMAO
Schedule cake
August 10th, 2012
4:29 pm
Why would Dawg fans be happy? They never play any teams the caliber of LSU, oh thats right Buffalo, Ga Southern and Idaho State, sorry i forgot.
Racist teams
August 10th, 2012
4:31 pm
Why are all the football and basketball players arrested and dismissed from NCAA teams and pro teams black?
Big Bad Bama
August 10th, 2012
4:31 pm
Warner Robbins Dawg, Why all the hate? we get no satisfaction from the loss of the Honey Badger, we neutralized him the last time we played him and we’re gonna whip them again this year, Oh by the way hope you guys make it to the championship game agin this year and please please dress up in your black for your own funeral!
Slaw Dawg Daddy
August 10th, 2012
4:31 pm
I dont know if Mark Rich would have kicked the Honey Bagger off of the Bulldogs team or not since he has not shone he is a strick discipliner when it comes to players getting in trouble with the law or using drugs and sometimes even hitting their girlfriends which I think is a shame because it does not take a man to smack a woman around because it takes a man not to smack a woman around even if they need it from time to time. I think unless Rich wins 10 games this year we had better start a world wide search for a new coach who can take the Dog Nashun to the promised Land. Go Dogs. Sick em boys
Spurrier was Right
August 10th, 2012
4:32 pm
St. Richt could learn a lesson from Coach Miles. He kicked the ‘face of the program’ off the team for drug violation while Coach St. Mark keeps multiple players ON THE TEAM for drug offenses.
McDawg
August 10th, 2012
4:34 pm
terrible news for true football fans
Dawg Reporter
August 10th, 2012
4:34 pm
Guess Bama’s discipline prevents them from losing their top players. Or is it a conspiracy to cover up misbehavior? We will never know.
Mr. Thomas Anthony 'The Taxman' Jones, SR
August 10th, 2012
4:34 pm
Les Miles is just plain stupid and a Fool . When you have a National Championship in your hands and you throw it away yoiu are a Fool. This man Talent was a Gift from God! You can never replace the Talent of mr. tyrann Mathieu. he was going to win the Heisman Trophy and show that a defensive player can win the Geisman Trophy if he has God-given Talent. Firwe the stupid coaches and pay the Players! No one comes to see the stupid coaches play!!!
kingdaddy
August 10th, 2012
4:35 pm
I’m sure the H. Badger has seen the error of his ways and will never do anything wrong again. Welcome to UGA Tyrann. Give our regards to Zac, lol…
Dawg Reporter
August 10th, 2012
4:35 pm
Spurrier was Right = Bumbling Idiot/blind Obama supporter.
The Truth
August 10th, 2012
4:38 pm
@spencaman
August 10th, 2012
4:23 pm
The Truth – Um, I think you got lost techie… this article is about LSU, not your tickle team
I guess The Truth hurts doggie. I know what the article is about…it’s just sickening how much UGA fans brag about their team on this blog when they only won one championship. By the way, I’m not a Techie. I root for UGA as well Just trying to bring some reality to the hype you psychotic UGA fans are shelling out…
Randy Travis loves to party
August 10th, 2012
4:40 pm
I think it’s racism. Them white boyz be smoking that stuff in the dorms all the time. Someone call that idiot in the white house.
GIVE ME A BREAK
August 10th, 2012
4:42 pm
I wish that there was a rule that would not allow another FBS school to take him. He should have to play for a FCS school or not at all.
Spurrier was Right
August 10th, 2012
4:42 pm
RE: Dawg Reporter – okay, Karnac. What are the today’s lottery numbers? LOL
Nice shot off subject but the facts remain.
Nachos: certified power drinker
August 10th, 2012
4:43 pm
i love reading all the loser UGAy fans talking bad about ALABAMA. you people is a focking joke.
Dawgnlex is a complete tool
August 10th, 2012
4:46 pm
LSU will be good…. until Alabama visits the first Saturday of November.
AJ McCarron (#1 QB in the SEC) will carve up that corn dog secondary like a turkey.
Spurrier was Right
August 10th, 2012
4:46 pm
Dawg Reporter – - P.S. I’m talking truly be tough on crime and you’re defending ‘thug’ behaviors…so, that makes you the bleeding heart liberal!
Oh? Or do you have different standards for sports??
GATiger
August 10th, 2012
4:49 pm
Guys like Lone Ranger are laughable. He doesn’t know the facts. He doesn’t recognize that Miles, like Richt, Muschamp or any coach worth his salt, has a responsibility for a young man on his team, and feels remorse over this, and not just for the loss of his talent on the field. Miles has had him on a short leash ever since the suspension last fall.
The kid was likeable, and now he’s gone. Of course Miles tried everything to keep him on the team – what coach wouldn’t? In the end he couldn’t make an exception. The fact that it was stated that Mathieu was dismissed for violation of team and school rules was merely a statement of fact. But make no mistake, this was a decision between Miles and AD Joe Alleva.
Sweeper
August 10th, 2012
4:49 pm
We “BAMA fans love for people to get on us–we just sit back with our NC rings (2 of the last 3 in case someone forgets) and smile.
Bama Belle
August 10th, 2012
4:51 pm
How many national championships has UGA had? (Cricketts). Go black out again and see what happens. When you get on our level then you can talk, until then… stay on the porch.
north avenue trade school boy
August 10th, 2012
4:52 pm
Tyrann, come to GT we have the most disrespectful fans that know nothing about athletics, and we also can hook you up with a guy
Joey
August 10th, 2012
4:52 pm
Boy, what happened to a little trash talking between CF teams on the AJC blogs?
The next time I see the words “racism” or “racist,” then it will be the end for me on here.
You geniuses throwing those words around should just go apply for employment (that’s a funny thought) with the Obama for America campaign. You can write the same garbage everywhere, and get paid for it . . .
Wilson Pickett
August 10th, 2012
4:52 pm
LSU will still be a very good football team. Not good enough to beat Alabama but very good regardless.
Ex-Gov. Edwards
August 10th, 2012
4:52 pm
Does anyone know if it was a dead girl or a live boy?
Dawgnlex is a complete tool
August 10th, 2012
4:55 pm
Them UGAy fans do have their 2008 Pre-Season National Championship…
That is until NICK SABAN and ALABAMA rolled into Sanford & Son stadium and DESTROYED the UGAy football program. Has there been a blackout since then??? Anyone… anyone…
GTBob
August 10th, 2012
4:55 pm
Its pretty amazing how many SEC players can’t manage to even stay on their teams. Its a shame that the conference doesn’t consider character when they sign those guys.
kingdaddy
August 10th, 2012
4:56 pm
Slaw-dawg
You never met my third wife. She’ll beat your a$$ if you pi$$ her off. When she gets mad, you will not walk away. Doesn’t always work that way. Some women are beautiful little bad-a$$es that have no fear. You don’t know what you’re talking about so you might want to talk about something you do know…
Right
August 10th, 2012
4:59 pm
ROLL TIDE !! would love to see the dogs in the Dome in December !!
Good Luck and keep everyone away from synthetic anything…
Joey
August 10th, 2012
5:00 pm
GA Tiger, you make a good point. If UGA fans aren’t critical of Richt in our dismissals and suspensions (and I am), it’s a bit hypocritical to throw accusations at Les.
It makes me wonder, and this is not criticitism Bama fans, what Saban does different – he must put the fear of God in his players somehow in a way many other HCs haven’t been able to, including Myer, and lately, even Spurrier.
NY Giants!
August 10th, 2012
5:01 pm
Wonder if this kid will end up playing for the Miss State or Auburns of the world? Hope he lands on his feet.
Chip Towers, Michael Carvell and the Ewok dude = UGAy homers
August 10th, 2012
5:01 pm
nice to be able to post and not be BANNED. hacks
GB's Hamburgers
August 10th, 2012
5:03 pm
UGA can’t kick it to him anymore …. and I know they want to.