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Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops said Friday that he had dismissed from the team an incoming freshman player who had been arrested earlier this year on a weapons charge. The dismissal of wide receiver Josh Jarboe came after the player appeared in a 74-second, profanity-laced video in which he rapped about guns and shooting people. The video is circulating on the Internet and appears to have been filmed in a university athletic dormitory.

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August 2, 2008  08:53 AM ET

Stupid ****.

August 2, 2008  09:08 AM ET

and good riddance! what a moron.

August 2, 2008  09:19 AM ET

good move ,but what if this moron was the no#1 rated wr out of high school.would stoops still had let him go?

August 2, 2008  09:47 AM ET

This is Stoops fault. He's too old, he has lost control of his team.

August 2, 2008  10:52 AM ET

LOL I guess Stoops thinks that everything said in rap is real, what a dumb f***. I guess he's still waiting on kobe to tell shaq what his butt tastes like too huh?

August 2, 2008  10:52 AM ET

Good to see a coach do something right. Way to go OU..sounds like others need to follow suit.

August 2, 2008  12:09 PM ET

I honestly think that Stoops regretted his decision to let Jarboe stay after his initial problems. I think he was looking for a reason to end the Sooners relationship with Jarboe. IMO, he made the right decision for the team.

August 2, 2008  12:57 PM ET

What an idiot, get arrested on weapons charges. Stoops gives him a gift and doesn't kick him off the team. So he goes out and puts a (lame)_rap on the idiot talking about what... guns.

Have fun at Jacksonville State

August 2, 2008  01:28 PM ET

I'm a Texas fan, and thusly I hate Oklahoma, but I have to say that Stoops almost always does the right thing in these scenarios. At least the man has principles.

August 2, 2008  01:51 PM ET

i'm guessin that some one higher in the food chain than bob stoops made this descision for him.

August 2, 2008  02:11 PM ET

Stoop is always man of principles. For RADIOMAN818, Stoop did the same thing for Bomar (#1 QB). Its matter of team decipline. Historically, OU never rely on one player. Keep up the good work BOB

August 2, 2008  02:16 PM ET

weapon charges i can see that, but getting kicked off the team for rapping is going way over board

August 2, 2008  02:59 PM ET

@Cowboy Representer

Ok, so the kid gets arrested on weapons charges, the later raps about shooting people. If it walks like a duck, and it talks like a duck...

And really, if Stoops had waited until the kid got arrested again or actually shot somebody, everybody would be complaining that he ignored obvious warning signs.

Good move on his part, imo.

August 2, 2008  04:51 PM ET

Penn State has room for one more.....We'll take him!!!!

August 2, 2008  05:49 PM ET

wow that was horriuble! talk about s@#

August 2, 2008  06:20 PM ET

And really, if Stoops had waited until the kid got arrested again or actually shot somebody, everybody would be complaining that he ignored obvious warning signs.

Good move on his part, imo.

Right On!! Say Coach Stoops let this "slip" and then something does happen, then everyone will start bit chen "why didn't he do something?"

Good post evslin.

August 2, 2008  07:24 PM ET

There were wayyy too many red flags with this kid. Not worth the risk.

NWPA: "too old" at 48? Really?! Wow. Sux to be a head coach these days.

August 2, 2008  09:44 PM ET

Hey Josh, you can go to SOUTH CAROLINA, GARCIA, needs a good receiver. THE OLD BALL COACH will be on the phone.So come on down. jerry

August 3, 2008  12:38 AM ET

Imagine the uproar if OU and Stoops had allowed this fool rapper to stay on the team? meanwhile, Reggie Bush accepted how many hundred thou$and$ while playing at U$C ? this is fact, folks (too bad the NCAA though only spends it time investigating teams east of the Rockies).

 
August 3, 2008  12:58 AM ET

ekofisk, how true when it comes to usc. they can pretty much do what ever they want and the ncaa won't touch them. as far as "rap" goes it's crap. this moron probably reads at the 2nd grade level. i doubt he would have gotten through school.

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