David Sims Pleads Guilty To Unauthorized Credit Card Use, Is Suspended One Game

The people posters over at Cyclone Fanatic seem to believe that the DMR is completely in the tank for Iowa and actively looks to bring ISU down.

between the two of them thats like one thousand a piece, right? BRING BACK DOUG E FRESH! j/k But I have a discussion topic to add about Rhodes. While he was the defensive coordinator down at Auburn he certainly had to see some of these “lax” punishments. Maybe he is just taking a page from the SEC handbook?

There.

I need a nap.

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That he entered a guilty plea and received a deferred judgment with probation for 18 months. Basically, if he doesn’t get in trouble again for 18 months (and probably has to do some community service or complete an “educational” course on why stealing is wrong) then, at the end of the probationary period, the charges and his plea will be expunged from his criminal record and it will be as if this never happened. Like USC’s 2005 season.

He figures if Tiger ever gets hot again, it"s all over but the cryin’.

I’m touched.

All Cyclone related things should be more like this.
If a cyclone occurs in India, I want a press release from it saying, “I happened so Iowa would have a better shot at glory this year.”
That is all.

But what’s more important? What you’re charged with or what you’re found guilty of? So I guess the question is: what were Sims and CBI actually found guilty of?

(1) IIRC, Both Sims and DD/AB were eventually found/pled guilty to the original charges. In this case, it’s a mere question of degrees. DD/AB put a combined $2100 on the stolen card(s) they possessed. Sims put just under $1000 on the stolen card in his possession. So it’s about $150 more for the CBI guys per person, but that $150 put them over the $1000 threshold for a Class D felony. In practice, either Sims is a criminal mastermind or incredibly lucky to come up a few bucks short of the same charge.

(2) DD and AB were charged with a Class D felony and immediately suspended indefinitely. For both, it was their first run-in with law enforcement worth noting (as in, more than speeding tickets and whatnot); DD eventually stole some DVD’s from Wal-Mart, AB did nothing, both were suspended for the stolen credit card alone through at least the first 4 weeks of the season, and neither ever played a snap for Iowa again. Sims gets an aggravated misdemeanor (one step below a felony) and gets one game. I haven’t looked, but I would guess nobody ever playing under KF has picked up a comparable charge and only gotten one game, mostly because anyone who has gone to that level has never seen the field again.

(3) As for Binns and Hampton, Binns got a serious misdemeanor charge for his first offense DUI, a whole level below Sims’ charge. He’s serving the same penalty. Hampton got a citation for his 21-only violation. He is also serving the same penalty. Neither is on the same level as what Sims did; Hampton had the gall to be in a bar about 96 hours after the 21-only ordinance went into effect, and Binns was driving after a couple of drinks. Neither charge involved the lack of character necessary to find/steal someone’s credit card and use it to buy yourself stuff, which is the legal and moral equivalent of mugging someone and spending the money in their wallet or, at the very least, finding a check written to someone else for $1000, endorsing it to yourself, and cashing it.

(4) If the CBI pictures are a sentencing factor, Dr. Cuddlekins should have been summarily executed two years ago.

The next person to tell me Paul Rhoads is some sort of right and honorable man is getting a knuckle sandwich. Also, a bag of dicks to suck. That is all.

He got punished for his actions, good. Case closed. ISU fans can go on all day about the way KF handles disciplinary situations with his team, and I don’t want our fans to stoop to that level.

Every program and every coach has their instances of conveniently lax punishment in their closet. Neither Iowa nor Iowa State are exempt.

I’ve never heard a State fan say that.