DRC: Wheeler dealing with notoriety following hit on Del Rio

[Brett Vito]

DRC: UNT linebacker dealing with torrent of negative publicity, messages on Twitter following hit on Florida quarterback

http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/north-texas-headlines/20160921-football-unts-wheeler-feels-online-heat-after-florida-game.ece

[Cerebus]

Life gets a lot easier when you realize that most people aren't worth a second of your thoughts.  

Especially not morons on the internet...

[golfingomez]

well geez, looking at that picture, i wonder is he was CLEARLY BEING PUSHED INTO THE QB

[UNTLifer]

What is Wheeler's Twitter handle?  We need to send him some support.  Good young man.

[greenminer]

@golfingomez that photo makes it look like he was pushed.  A video of the play was posted earlier this week, and it looked like the FL lineman tripped him up.

Regardless of the 'how', Wheeler clearly lost his footing before Del Rio had released the ball.  The actions and words by the FL coach have blown this waaaay beyond reason.  I wish we would all just move on.  Shit happens in football.

[Cerebus]

2 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

What is Wheeler's Twitter handle?  We need to send him some support.  Good young man.

It's been deleted.  

[Aldo]

So, uh, Rice. 

He's moved on, so should we.

[SHOSS]

The FL coach and the brainless faction of the Florida fanbase should be ashamed of themselves...  but alas, the FL coach and social media idiots are too stupid to be ashamed.  Their coach could do a bunch by simply publicly apologizing for his behavior, which includes lies about a targeting penalty history and not recognizing that their TE tripped Wheeler after being beat on the play.

and, of course, any article out there on sports walmart or cnn.com or whatever surface level type of sports website won't tell the whole story...just include info that the Florida coach is mad about a "dirly" or "late"(even though it wasn't late, but low hit on their QB)...  instead of exposing him as a fraudulent crybaby. 

[outoftown]

I like the article. It is good work. But I would honestly not have minded if the title hadn't been quite so politcally correct and more along the lines of " UNT linebacker dealing with torrent of negative publicity, following wrong accusations by Florida Coach, Players and Fans"

I get why Vito didn't feel like doing that. But somebody needs to balance the media that is blindly quoting the partisan floridian view of things.

Edited September 22, 2016 by outoftown

[greenminer]

3 hours ago, SHOSS said:

The FL coach and the brainless faction of the Florida fanbase should be ashamed of themselves...  but alas, the FL coach and social media idiots are too stupid to be ashamed.  Their coach could do a bunch by simply publicly apologizing for his behavior, which includes lies about a targeting penalty history and not recognizing that their TE tripped Wheeler after being beat on the play.

and, of course, any article out there on sports walmart or cnn.com or whatever surface level type of sports website won't tell the whole story...just include info that the Florida coach is mad about a "dirly" or "late"(even though it wasn't late, but low hit on their QB)...  instead of exposing him as a fraudulent crybaby. 

Personally, I'd like to see FL #30 just come out and admit he got tangled up with Wheeler.  A simple "Chill out on Wheeler, he fell" would be nice.

I can't imagine McElwain ever apologizing.

Edited September 22, 2016 by greenminer

[GangGreen]

1 hour ago, Cerebus said:

Especially not morons on the internet...

Cerebus, will you please quit personally attacking me?

Seriously, though, the Mean Green Nation is 100% behind the "18 Wheeler".

[aztecskin]

56 minutes ago, Aldo said:

So, uh, Rice. 

He's moved on, so should we.

we like ground horse meat with our horchata apparently

[Army of Dad]

59 minutes ago, greenminer said:

Personally, I'd like to see FL #74 just come out and admit he got tangled up with Wheeler.  A simple "Chill out on Wheeler, he fell" would be nice.

I can't imagine McElwain ever apologizing.

I think it was actually #30

[Withers940]

Now this is really hard to see with the untrained eye but if you take a look, you will see that all Florida Fans are Retarded

Also wanted to reach out to the coach

 

Edited September 22, 2016 by Withers940

[Eagle-96]

2 hours ago, outoftown said:

I like the article. It is good work. But I would honestly not have minded if the title hadn't been quite so politcally correct and more along the lines of " UNT linebacker dealing with torrent of negative publicity, following wrong accusations by Florida Coach, Players and Fans"

I get why Vito didn't feel like doing that. But somebody needs to balance the media that is blindly quoting the partisan floridian view of things.

I believe that editors usually choose the article title after it is submitted. Can someone confirm.

[GMG_Dallas]

24 minutes ago, Withers940 said:

Now this is really hard to see with the untrained eye but if you take a look, you will see that all Florida Fans are Retarded

Also wanted to reach out to the coach

 

I'll say what I told one of my coworkers who went to Auburn: If you're a Florida fan, your concern shouldn't be that Del Rio got hurt or if the hit was dirty or not, your concern should be that your O-Line got burned by our defensive end (and it wasn't the only time our defense got to the QB). When they face off against better SEC defenses, I'm worried their O-Line will get manhandled similar to how ours did against them. Never mind the fact that their starting offense was struggling against our defense. Consider this, SMU scored more points on us.

I'm excited to see what this defense will do moving forward though. They have gotten better every week so far. Let's hope they continue to progress.

[Aldo]

28 minutes ago, Withers940 said:

Now this is really hard to see with the untrained eye but if you take a look, you will see that all Florida Fans are Retarded

Also wanted to reach out to the coach

 

STOP

This is not even the right play

[MGNation92]

1 minute ago, Aldo said:

STOP

This is not even the right play

Man speaks the truth. When Wheeler hit Del Rio, it was the TE Goolsby(#30) that did the tripping, no the left tackle

[Withers940]

6 minutes ago, Aldo said:

STOP

This is not even the right play

 

4 minutes ago, MGNation92 said:

Man speaks the truth. When Wheeler hit Del Rio, it was the TE Goolsby(#30) that did the tripping, no the left tackle

That is correct but I still wanted to troll the Florida coach for being a dick head

[Aldo]

13 minutes ago, Withers940 said:

That is correct but I still wanted to troll the Florida coach for being a dick head

Fair enough

[UNT 90 Grad]

24 minutes ago, MGNation92 said:

Man speaks the truth. When Wheeler hit Del Rio, it was the TE Goolsby(#30) that did the tripping, no the left tackle

Yep.  Block in the back and tripping all in one smooth motion.

 

Edited September 22, 2016 by UNT 90 Grad

[Green Crazy]

does anyone have video of the davis injury?

 

[greenminer]

@Army of Dad ty.  corrected

[MGNation92]

7 minutes ago, Green Crazy said:

does anyone have video of the davis injury?

 

Mr Crapper himself does

 

[El Paso Eagle]

My fear this week is the politically correct referees will have a quick flag waiting for Wheeler (guilty until proven innocent) and will not call it fairly. Hope I am wrong.