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[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@LockedOnDucks This question won’t be relevant for awhile, but watching Jeremiah Smith play this year makes me wonder what is Oregons best option for stopping him. My belief is to run a man coverage on him and I would rotate Finney and Ify to keep them fresh for that detail.

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@LockedOnDucks Watching your show and I agree that the bar is extremely high for Raiola to permanently replace Dante this year. With one exception being Dante’s health and how the season plays out between now and when Dante is fully healthy and ready to go.

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@DUiagalelei He’s a class act. Coach Lanning acknowledged Maiava’s actions and how he showed concern for Dante in an interview today. That was a horrible situation but Maiava showed his character and why he’s a leader. He has a bright future ahead of him.

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@Victor_Yates @uscfb Maiava was a true leader and class act. I will root for him moving forward. I also saw in the initial clip that #27 and #10 also tried to step in and get #8 to leave the field when he was celebrating in the end zone. Some USC players showed character and should be acknowledged

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@DUiagalelei As a lifelong Oregon fan, it’s an honor having your family tied to our program. I have never seen anything short of upstanding character on display from your son.

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@thatlawyerLisa As an Oregon fan I will say that Maiava was a class act and numbers 10 and 27 I believe at least did more than any USC coach by trying to get #8 to leave the field and stop his behavior in the end zone. But the USC staff failed to lead that program at that moment

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@dakizzler488117 lol yeah I saw that coming

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@dakizzler488117 I saw your reply to this post and was going to interact with it but the originator blocked me because of my single reply to his post. 🤣🤣🤣 But them thinking they can call Lanning a coke head and a racist with not evidence isn’t hateful??? People confuse me

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@DreAllDay There’s a difference between hitting someone hard and making it hurt so that they don’t want hit again and hitting someone in a way that severely injures them.

Even in combat sports fights stop celebrating when they see someone seriously injured and not getting or waking up

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@Victor_Yates @EmmanuelAcho Exactly and while as a fan I do not like the hit. I understand things happen in games. It’s controlled violence and players are at risk of injury every play. But I agree that when a player is down, people need to read the room and not conduct themselves like he did

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@Victor_Yates @EmmanuelAcho But I do hope this is something where he just wasn’t thinking because I don’t want to believe that players would willingly celebrate someone being injured and hope that it wasn’t intentional. The optics though are not good and only the player truly knows their intentions

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@SoftlyAugust He doesn’t lead with the helmet, but he lowers his shoulder instead of attempting to ease up and drives that shoulder into Dante’s head/neck area which he knows and has been taught is a illegal hit. He then celebrates on the sideline as Dante is down motionless for nearly 10 min

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@FightOn818 He received an indefinite suspension and had to prove he changed before getting to play again in the bowl game that year I believe. He had to go through mentoring from Tony Dungy and prove he changed and was actually sorry for his actions. He sat all season as that was game one

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@Matchles If their defense plays like it has, he can throw for 400 and 3TDs a game and they will still lose.

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@MarvinonThaMic True, football is a game of controlled violence. Things happen and unfortunately players get hurt. But when a player is motionless on the field for nearly 10 min, celebrating on the sideline is not appropriate. Allowing it to be perceived as intentional and not accidental.

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@thesportscuz Coach prime would have thrown Stephen’s off the team for behavior that is detrimental to the program.

Coach Lanning taking a shot at USC at the end and calling their culture into question is a recruiting move. He could have said far worse after that game. This was tame

[Marlo_Barks @BarksMarlo]

@Ricoknowstiktok It’s not simply the hit he is suspended for. It’s his outrageous celebrating after the fact while Dante lay on the ground motionless for nearly 10 minutes. Stephen’s was laughing and high fiving teammates and at least 1 assistant on the sidelines. His behavior is why