zippy_ua_00 Posted March 20, 2016 Report Share Posted March 20, 2016 Apparently he was shot by one of the offensive lineman. He was mistaken as a burglar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrship35 Posted March 20, 2016 Report Share Posted March 20, 2016 http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/2626209-andrew-pratt-shot-by-akron-teammate-scott-boyett-after-being-mistaken-as-burglar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 Wow. This has now become a big national story. I have a picture and link coming up on my MSN homepage now, and had a friend down in Texas just tell me that he's read the story. Too bad we need to fight for headlines, even locally, for all of the great things that happen with UofA athletics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDZip Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 And because Bleacher Report is affiliated with CNN it's also on the CNN front page under sports. Only good thing is it is an accident and isn't really cause for truly negative publicity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipsoutsider Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 It was on my MSN page, too, but I think those pages are curated based on our browsing habits, so it likely didn't appear on everyone's MSN page. I was rather surprised it has become a national story (Bleacher Report) with March Madness going on right now. I guess it fills a vacuum in the football news bucket right now. I am not too concerned as it was an accidental incident. Not our preferable headline, but it beats one of the kids getting arrested. I don't think it makes a difference at the end of the day beyond being something interesting people discuss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippyfan34 Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 It was on ESPN frontpage for a while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 No, I don't consider it "bad publicity" either. My point was really that a school like Akron can make National Headlines for something like this, but often can not even get local headlines for all of the great accomplishments of our athletes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreed5120 Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 58 minutes ago, skip-zip said: No, I don't consider it "bad publicity" either. My point was really that a school like Akron can make National Headlines for something like this, but often can not even get local headlines for all of the great accomplishments of our athletes. I don't get a subscription to the Akron Beacon so I only get to see the articles posted online. What exactly would you like to see more of? I saw a decent number of articles, some good others bad, about Akron's bowl game, but you can only hype a bowl game so much that features a 7-5 vs. 6-6 team. The Zips basketball team received a good amount of exposure when they had that 19 game win streak a few years back. Soccer team got good exposure when they won the national title. In regards to other Olympic sports people for the most part aren't that interested in following. Had the men's basketball team beat OSU or made NCAA tournament (especially if they won in the tourney), you would have seen more news. Had Akron football beat Oklahoma or made the MAC championship in football, you would have seen more articles. If Akron wants to make local headline news, it needs to do things that Joe Akron finds newsworthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 Pratt was very lucky. The bullet just missed his heart. It looks like he will recover completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyRulz Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 (edited) A little more info.. http://buchtelite.com/31092/news/campus-news/football-player-injured-in-shooting/ Edited March 31, 2016 by ZippyRulz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balsy Posted March 23, 2016 Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 Did he just shoot? I mean...at the very least if you thought someone was trying to break into your apartment and you were armed with a gun (and there's a chance that it might be one of your friends who you apparently let in quite frequently) wouldn't you at the very least announce that you're armed and ask who it is? Something about this story doesn't make sense to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted March 23, 2016 Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 3 minutes ago, Balsy said: Did he just shoot? I mean...at the very least if you thought someone was trying to break into your apartment and you were armed with a gun (and there's a chance that it might be one of your friends who you apparently let in quite frequently) wouldn't you at the very least announce that you're armed and ask who it is? Something about this story doesn't make sense to me. I was kind of waiting to hear more of the details as well, and also couldn't believe that someone would just shoot. Maybe there's more we don't know yet. But, I am also wondering how the coach and his boss will feel about a player having a loaded gun in his apartment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreed5120 Posted March 23, 2016 Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 As long as he has a license for it and doesn't carry it on campus or anyplace where it is illegal and isn't flaunting it around in a club, I can't see why there would be a problem with him utilizing his 2nd amendment right. Can't blame him for wanting to own a gun in Akron where home invasion is a legitimate threat. In college I've had friends robbed at gun point in their own house. I don't know the full story so I'm going to withhold further judgment. PS. This is coming from a registered democrat and I'm not looking to start a political debate. Just saying that if he is legally allowed having the gun, there shouldn't be a problem that he owns it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted March 23, 2016 Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) My God. 1) I've never been in Boyett's situation, nor do I know the exact details of what happened, but I'm not going to pretend to know exactly how I would handle it. 2) There is quite a difference between you "letting your friend in" (read:him knowingly being in your apartment) vs someone unknowingly being in your apartment at 3am in the morning in an area where robberies are quite prevalent. 3) Whoever's coach and/or boss we are talking about has no authority to infringe on your 2nd amendment right with what is presumed LEGALLY owned. 4) You don't need any license to legally own a handgun in Ohio. Just be 21 and pass a background check. 5) If Pratt himself agreed it was an accident, take your tin foil hats off and take what he said at face value. He has no incentive to cover for somebody who shot him. Edited March 23, 2016 by LZIp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted March 23, 2016 Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 1 hour ago, kreed5120 said: Just saying that if he is legally allowed having the gun, there shouldn't be a problem that he owns it. This situation aside, there are PLENTY of examples of things that are "LEGAL" that are stringently frowned upon by the NCAA and/or a school's athletic dept. heads. Just saying. For instance, when all of those idiots down in Cowlumbus were selling their own awards and memorabilia, that's a completely LEGAL activity, but has it's very own high consequences when judged in the eyes of your coaches, school, and the governing body of college athletics. I'm also LEGALLY allowed to call my boss an a-hole, but I can't guarantee that I'd be employed tomorrow if I did that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreed5120 Posted March 23, 2016 Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 Profiting off of football while still being a student athlete put their amateurism into question hence why it isn't allowed and hence why the NCAA came down on them. If the players bad mouthed Bowden and the other coaches, I'd expect them to get punished. We're talking about owning a gun here. There are more guns owned in this country than there are US citizens. I'm willing to venture to guess some player on every FBS team owns a gun, most likely several people. My grandma who is nearly 80 owns a handgun. She hasn't fired it in many years as she owns it for protection. I'm not some gun enthusiast. I don't own a gun and only shot a gun a handful or so of times in my entire life, but I can respect someone's constitutional right. If Bowden or anyone else has a problem with a student owning a gun in a dangerous neighborhood, they can kiss away their chances of me ever donating another cent to the university. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitside Posted March 24, 2016 Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 Scott has been off of the team for over a year. ...that seems to get lost in the conversation. .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted March 24, 2016 Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 1 hour ago, pitside said: Scott has been off of the team for over a year. ...that seems to get lost in the conversation. .. I'm wondering why this has not come up yet in any news story about the incident. I thought I remembered hearing about this, but figured maybe that never happened because none of the news stories indicated that. Everyone reported it as "teammate". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitside Posted March 24, 2016 Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 The story in the LA times reported him as a former teammate that dropped off the team last spring for medical issues. ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted March 24, 2016 Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 11 minutes ago, pitside said: The story in the LA times reported him as a former teammate that dropped off the team last spring for medical issues. ... Thanks. And he doesn't show up on the roster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted March 30, 2016 Report Share Posted March 30, 2016 Not from the ABJ: Ex-Akron WR Pratt Doing Well After Shooting http://www.cantonrep.com/sports/20160329/ex-akron-wr-pratt-doing-well-after-shooting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balsy Posted March 30, 2016 Report Share Posted March 30, 2016 8 hours ago, Blue & Gold said: Not from the ABJ: Ex-Akron WR Pratt Doing Well After Shooting http://www.cantonrep.com/sports/20160329/ex-akron-wr-pratt-doing-well-after-shooting I like that Pratt said "the athletic department has nothing to do with what happened. And he's absolutely right in that. Something still doesn't make sense to be in this story, but it's an irrelevant thing at this point because it doesn't appear that Boyett is on the the team anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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