College Athletes + Drinking + Facebook = Suspension
Dumb College Kids, Other College Sports March 25th. 2008, 1:56pm
If you look in the athlete internet rulebook (it exists, trust us), rule No. 1 is in 42-point font, bolded, and underlined, with stars all around it: If you must take photos of your teammates drinking, do not, under any circumstances, post them on the internet. Suspensions are one thing, but losing a scholarship over a night with a bottle of Beam in a hotel room totally isn’t worth it. We’ve got no idea what kinky shenanigans are taking place in this photo. Must be a Slippery Cock Rock University thing.
Pictures could lead to suspensions (The Online Rocket)
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March 25th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
You seem to have missed the bigger story — the newspaper essentially ratted them out.
That’s what qualifies as news at “The Rocket”?
March 25th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Slippery Rock is one of the main teacher farms in western PA. Good to see they’re churning our a new generation of superb role models.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
i wonder what wouldve happened to me if i played a sport in college (club lacrosse doesnt count). think they wouldve been pissed to see the folder dedicated to my old RooR bong?
March 25th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Mike, there isn’t much going on in the area 1 hour north of Pittsburgh. Cows on the road qualify as news. Co-eds drinking absolutely passes the news test.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
good ol’ Busch in that pic
March 25th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
The chick in the Adidas shorts kinda looks like Dana Jacobson. Maybe its just me
March 25th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
i wonder where i would be if some of my party pictures got out. i have some ridiculous ones on facebook, but nothing that would get me suspended/fired from anything.
i skimmed the article. are they getting suspended for social networking, or the alcohol?
March 25th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
nothing like hotel parties though. From that pic you can tell its a hotel room.
just make sure its not in your name
March 25th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
RooR eh? Very high class Spencer, I approve.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I’m not surprised this happened at a PA school. Teens and college kids are ranked in society on how well they can drink/smoke pot.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
yea, but it’s gone now. tragic accident a few years back.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Tiffany Tedesco, a 19-year-old freshman communication major and a member of the SRU women’s track team, acknowledged that she had posted the pictures on Facebook.
She should have her scholarship removed. If you’re stupid enough to display a public record of your illegal underage drinking at a school-sanctioned event, then you don’t deserve one.
“I forgot to look at the pictures before I posted them,” Tedesco said Wednesday afternoon. “It was a mistake and I’m deleting them.”
Yeah, I’m calling INCREDIBLE BULLSHIT on that one.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
this party for the most part looks innocent and rather boring. i was in Colorado snowboarding earlier this winter, and we partied with their ski teams that were staying in our condo place. it was much more fun than this. it was especially fun when they all passed out, and my friend and i took their stupid ski uniform things and wore them for the rest of the week.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Rule number 284 in a much smaller font says that super badass pictures of you on a exotic riverbed in the heart of Africa are encouraged.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I’m glad everybody didn’t have a cell phone camera when I went to school.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
@The412:
Ah, good ol’ Slippery Rock: Where Grove City goes to drink.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Slippery Rock is Vegas relative to Grove City!
March 25th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
@CRM, +1
March 25th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
@CRM – That was Asia, not Africa.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
@ jim – The worst thing to happen to college students is the advent of digital cameras/cell phones and Facebook/MySpace. Well…scratch that…HPV is pretty bad, too.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Agreed. You’re supposed to get bombed out of your skull on a regular basis in college without worrying about the consequences.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
412
I assume you mean HIV
March 25th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
The comments on that site are priceless. Parents are saying the newpaper broke privacy laws by going onto Facebook. Parents with COLLEGE DEGREES.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I wish i went to college
March 25th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
its all fun and games til someone gets suspended from a PSAC track team.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
that girl on her knees looks so much like the secretary at my old job…
March 25th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
C. Vivian Stringer (School’s most famous alum, IMO) would not be proud of these student athletes.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Your mom goes to college.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
412 – I thought Slippery Rock, like Grove City, was located in a dry borough?
March 25th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Edinboro hoes > Slippery Rock hoes
for all you rock climbers out there, look up Panama Rocks in NY
March 25th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
@BostonCanSuckIt – HIV is obviously bad-ass, but I was referring to HPV, one of the “new” STDs the kids have. Lots of that shit going around. Not good times.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Regardless Western PA in general sucks. From Erie all the way down to Pittsburgh. There are no redeeming qualities in the area.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
All this talk about HPV is making me super wet, guys.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
@Roethlishotdog – No idea about Slippery Rock being dry. It could very well be, but I know SRU is a friggin’ huge party school and Grove City…is not.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
correst!
March 25th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Hakeem needs to get away from CMU. Walk a couple blocks to Shadyside! There are tons of hot college chicks there.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Cute College Athletes + Drinking + Facebook = Entertainment
/fixed
March 25th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/
March 25th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
412 – looked it up. Slippery Rock got “wet” in 2001.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Notice…once again…chicks involved…Guys out drinking and having a good time never stop and pose for pictures of themselves drinking (well guys who aren’t douchebags and pussies) Chicks have this fucking self destructive desire to photograph themselves making asses of themselves and then showing everyone what they did. With that said..it’s FUCKING COLLEGE. If they weren’t doing this I would be concerned…trust me their parents know whats going on…everyone does…to lose your scholarship for acting like a kid is the most hypocritical bullshit ever..fucking pussy college administrative assholes. (I know 18 is not legal for drinking…I also drive above the speed limit too..I hope I don’t lose my job)
March 25th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
@Gonzo-You hit the nail right on the head with that one! Those comments are hilarious and sad at the same time. Those poor kids being punished for breaking the rules. How dare that school damage their self esteem! Won’t someone pleeeeeeeeeas think of the children!
March 25th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I must say that those are pretty lame party pics to get busted over. Where’s the whip cream and hand cuffs? Where’s the leather mask and ball gag? Where’s Sean Salisbury and Chris Berman?
March 25th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
They were at the door trying to get in, but TBL and his monster cannon arms wouldn’t let them.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
RWH, you’re so right, for some reason girls (and not just college-aged ones) have this obsession with taking pictures of all their friends when they’re drunk. If someone infiltrated snapfish and collected our Cabo pictures, I’d have some explaining to do…
March 25th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I agree with many comments on the board — for some reason women want to document all the stuff they do…must be the sentimentality thing.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
sportsgal — got any good Cabo pictures you would like to share with the 95 percent male readership? Lolololololol
March 25th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden smugly laugh at “the horror” of some college kids sneaking some Mickey’s Big Mouth and Boone’s Farm.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I’ve said it before… I’ll say it again:
damn I miss college sometimes.
March 25th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Hotdog: 2001? Didn’t stop anybody when I was at Grove City in 1990.
412: Grove City… is not. Thank you for being polite. I would have used the phrase “Presbyterian Gulag” myself.
March 25th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
@ Spencer: you had a roor? I broke mine too so I had to go out and get another one. Its probably my favorite material possession in the world.