NO MEANS NO

After the end pf the Rose Bowl game, Oregon football players taunted Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, who has been accused of rape, by chanting ‘No Means No’

In 2012 a woman accused Jameis Winston, Florida State’s star quarterback, of raping her. Winston, the 2013 Heisman Trophy winner, was never criminally charged because the state’s attorney claimed there was not enough evidence to prosecute him. And Winston was recently cleared of violating the university’s student code of conduct.

Winston is not only a star football player, but he is also a multimillion dollar commodity to the university and to the business community in Tallahassee. I suspect the state’s attorney worked just as hard, if not harder, to find a way out of having to prosecute Winston as he did to prosecute the alleged rapist. And the same holds true for the university administration’s investigation of the student conduct violation.

In Thursday’s Rose Bowl game, The University of Oregon thoroughly thumped Florida State University by a lopsided score of 59-20, thereby winning the right to play Ohio State University for the college football championship.

At the end of the game a number of Oregon players celebrated by taunting Winston with chants of “No Means No’ to the tune of the ‘Warchant’ used by Florida State fans. That infuriated Winston’s supporters. In response to the outrage, Oregon’s coach released this statement Thursday night:

"We are aware of the inappropriate behavior in the postgame. This is not what our program stands for, and the student-athletes will be disciplined internally."

Now let me think about a proper discipline for the ‘No Means No’ chanting players. Hmm ….. hmm. Eureka! I’ve got it. Coach, make them take one extra lap sprinting around the practice field.