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LSU: Heisman hopeful Mathieu, aka 'Honey Badger,' dismissed for breaking team rules
It's been said that Honey Badger don't care, but what may be more accurate is that Honey Badger don't play - at least not for the LSU Tigers.
The team, which played in last year's national college football championship game, announced this afternoon that their top player and arguably the nation's best cornerback, Tyrann Mathieu, has been dismissed for violating team policy.
“This is a very difficult day for our team,” head coach Les Miles said. “We lose a quality person, teammate and contributor to the program. However, with that being said, we have a standard that our players are held to and when that standard is not met, there are consequences."
Miles added, “It’s hard because we all love Tyrann. We will do what we can as coaches, teammates, and friends to get him on a path where he can have success. We are going to miss him.”
LSU did not say which team rule Mathieu broke. The 20-year-old All-American ran into trouble last year when he and two other players violated the team's drug policy. ESPN reported at the time that the trio tested positive for synthetic marijuana.
Mathieu and the others were suspended for their team's game against Auburn.
Despite missing the game, Mathieu was still a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, awarded to college football's best player, as a sophomore. In addition to winning the Chuck Bednarik Award, given to the top defensive player, he came in fifth in Heisman voting with 34 first-place votes and was the only defensive player among 10 finalists.
According to LSU, the Columbus, Ohio, native who attended high school in New Orleans, has registered 133 tackles - 16 for a loss - in 26 games for the Tigers. He also has four picks, 11 forced fumbles and eight fumble recoveries, as well as four touchdowns, two on punt returns and two on fumble returns.
The 5-foot-9, 175-pound Mathieu got his nickname for his fearlessness on the gridiron. Honey badgers are known to scrap with animals many times their size, including lions, and even tangle (successfully) with poisonous snakes.
Said the Dallas Cowboys' Morris Claiborne, a former teammate of Mathieu's: "Tyrann deserved the nickname ... because the honey badger takes what it wants, and Tyrann takes what he wants on the field," ESPN reported today in a profile.
The sports network had to add an editor's note, saying, "This story was published prior to Tyrann Mathieu's dismissal from LSU's football program on August 10."
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Who cares.
Nobody...
Obviously you since you clicked on the story ! Lol
Why click on this story?Are you mad that no one in your life cares about you like strangers care about this guy?
Honey Badger should have cared.
Oregon will take him.
I guess LSU has someone who can replace him easily. They are deep.
"Tyrann deserved the nickname ... because the honey badger takes what it wants" thats what got him in trouble ya know
caught taking the fake marijuana
Judgement that I'm reading on this site is why so many of our youths commit suicide. They think one mistake is the end of the world and you that are making judgemental statements here regarding this young man tells them exactly that. The truth HB is that you can be redeemed even after making a mistake. I encourage you to learn from it by asking God for forgiveness, forgive yourself and move on. FYI: The Bible speaks all about redemption. There's a lot people in the Bible that messed up big time and God still used them. Your mistakes will give you a powerful testimony. God is the only one righteous enough to judge you; humans are exactly that, human and aren't qualified to.
He has a little hit, gets kicked off the team. All his friends are drinking, getting drunk but that's OK.
If we still had prohibition they would all be kicked off the team... What a waste.
Must be murder !!! Thats what it would take for a team to let go an all american! Who did he kill?
The Raiders just signed him !!!
What an idiot statement. It is what it is today. Rules are rules dope boy gansta
Who is this worthless person, "honey badger"?? that is a name for a "blond haired rat like animal" why is he so worth time on the network???
5 foot nine,175??? The N.F.L. will mean "not for long" for this guy,he's way too small
Average Cornerback is 5'11" 190lbs...he'd be fine
Remember Sonny Sixkiller?
You obviously don't know football. He was a Heisman finalist and one of the best in the game. KNOWLEDGE!
He can go to the State Penn.....err I mean Penn State
That "joke" is so played...
apparently this honey badger "takes what he wants": both ON and OFF the field?