Mike Aaman - Victim of alleged assault in Narragansett

Andrew · Unread post by **Andrew** » 10 years ago

What a mess...

SG edit, 12:07 p.m. on Dec. 20, 2013 - I've edited the topic title to provide some more information.

RAM67 · Unread post by **RAM67** » 10 years ago

Apparently this happened a week ago?

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 10 years ago

Son of a Bitch

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 10 years ago

Talk about being a cursed program

Rhody74 · Unread post by **Rhody74** » 10 years ago

This sucks .....

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 10 years ago

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

Oh, for God's sake! HE was the victim?
I guess if Milan Lucic can claim to be a victim in a
bar room incident, then anyone can be a victim.
So, what did he get the crap beat out of him, to be out
indefinitely?
Remember the pictures posted of Aaman by his girlfriend
of him in the hospital, last fall all beat up looking?
Nobody ever addressed that, either.
Too bad because we really need this kid.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 10 years ago

Hard to have a strong opinion about this other than it sucks for the team. Don't want to be mad at Mike or really have a ton of sympathy for him at this point based on how few details there are. I'll reserve judgment.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

Two local teams who had big hopes this year,
both being derailed by off the court issues.
No judgements on the individuals involved, just fact.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

More details...

http://www.independentri.com/independen ... b0bb9.html

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

Unread post by **SGreenwell** » 10 years ago

I've changed the topic title to provide some more information, and to hopefully prevent a duplicate thread being made at some point.

Rhody74 · Unread post by **Rhody74** » 10 years ago

"Aaman told police there were four alleged attackers, but he did not know the address or vicinity of the house party."

Then how did he find the house in the first place?

I think there's more to the story than what's been reported.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

Good point, '74.
How do you claim to go to help your friend out, but don't
know where you went?
Unless he's that incoherent from the beating?

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 10 years ago

Coaches must hate it when the phone rings......

Rhody Guy · Unread post by **Rhody Guy** » 10 years ago

Thus far in his career I have liked Aaman generally and haven't heard anything bad about him personally, but this sounds very fishy.

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 10 years ago

after reading the story, it does sound very believable coming from someone that has seen this stuff happen before. Ive seen regular drunk fights between students, then another time one of my friends was jumped by a bunch of black kids who didn't go to URI. So I can see this happening.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

So, how the hell do you come to bail a pal out, go there and have no idea where it was????????????????????
All the better that he's not from the area. That means he had to be given specific directions on how
to find the place.

Keaney.Blue · Unread post by **Keaney.Blue** » 10 years ago

Sounds like more happened, these types of situations occur though. I was out a few years ago with some players on the team and almost got into a brawl because a player talked to a girlfriend of another guy at a house party. We had 10+ kids ready to fight us until one of our guys defused the situation. URI basketball players are easily recognizable in the area and when alcohol is involved people want to take down the top dogs.

Captainron@ · Unread post by **Captainron@** » 10 years ago

rodfromcranston wrote:So, how the hell do you come to bail a pal out, go there and have no idea where it was????????????????????
All the better that he's not from the area. That means he had to be given specific directions on how
to find the place.

Well, someone else drove him there. He might have told the driver the address and then forgot it. They need to find the driver.

ramfan85 · Unread post by **ramfan85** » 10 years ago

I'd have to be pretty drunk to mix it up with someone that looks like him.

This kid has spent more time in hospitals than on the court.

theblueram · Unread post by **theblueram** » 10 years ago

He's like the Rudy Rudeker of this team. Maybe he"ll be patched up enough for Sunday. If anything he can scare the shit out of UNH.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

Or sometimes the smartest thing to do is just tell the cops you don't remember anything. Last thing you want to do sometimes is rat people out and then have to deal with them again later. Not saying thats the case here, I have no idea, but it wouldn't be the first time its happened.

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 10 years ago

Better call Saul.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

SmartyBarrett wrote:Better call Saul.

Exactly. For all we know Aaman is the one who knocks.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

How is it "ratting" out people who have done you or someone close to you,
something to be avoided?
I know a bit about witness intimidation, but if everyone clammed up out of fear, no crime would ever be reported.

theblueram · Unread post by **theblueram** » 10 years ago

sometimes it's not out of fear. sometimes you know the guys and, well, you can guess what happens next......

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

rodfromcranston wrote:How is it "ratting" out people who have done you or someone close to you,
something to be avoided?
I know a bit about witness intimidation, but if everyone clammed up out of fear, no crime would ever be reported.

You are correct, and ratting was probably a poor choice of words on my part, but that doesnt mean it doesnt happen all the time.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

I know it happens plenty. Witness intimidation was something I despised
as an Investigator. You'd have a case already to present, and poof, your witness would
back out.
Not much you can do about it, either. You can't effectively compel someone to testify.
Even under oath, there by subpoena, they can just play dumb.

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 10 years ago

Wow. Lots of theories spinning in my head.....none of them are good...

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 10 years ago

Today's world also victimizes guys who are perceived as "snitches", so sometimes folks are unwilling to talk to police even if they've done nothing wrong.
Perfect example for that was the Paul Pierce stabbing.

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 10 years ago

Maybe it didn't happen the way mike says it did.

Rhody72 · Unread post by **Rhody72** » 10 years ago

Maybe the assailant or the friend was another member of the basketball team who was drunk out of his mind? It is all speculation; we simply do not know. (Hey Ed Brown has been around!)

rhodyras · Unread post by **rhodyras** » 10 years ago

Guy just getting over surgery gets beat up... not good.

3:45am... wasn't it John Wooden who said "Nothing good ever happens after midnight"?

Running Ram · Unread post by **Running Ram** » 10 years ago

What in the world??!!? This is madness!

brady1 · Unread post by **brady1** » 10 years ago

Yuck!

No one said coaching in the A-10 would be easy Hurley. Suck it up and get to work.

GO RHODY!

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 10 years ago

I know it's semester break, but maybe Dan needs to think about instituting a curfew for the boys....

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 10 years ago

There's way more questions than answers at this point. Any speculation as to the who, what, when, where and how including team players, team rules violations, will sort itself out in due process; another example of the complex nature of a D-1 hoop program with so many unknowns running around with the coaches inability to control them all....

Rhody74 · Unread post by **Rhody74** » 10 years ago

I don't know if a curfew would've mattered in this case.

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 10 years ago

I'd be more willing to give him a pass if this wasn't the second time in two years where he ended up in the hospital with cuts all over his face

ramfan85 · Unread post by **ramfan85** » 10 years ago

I'm waiting for the new photos.

Backroads · Unread post by **Backroads** » 10 years ago

I saw him at Moe's last night getting my free burrito. His left eye was shut and very dark purple. The discoloring didn't extend from beyond the eye.

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 10 years ago

I have total faith that Dan will handle this appropriately

bressler3south · Unread post by **bressler3south** » 10 years ago

Good, Iggy. That's about the best response to all of this b.s. that I've read.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 10 years ago

Great point, Iggy. It's at times like this that I'm comforted in the fact that Dan Hurley is our coach.

Captainron@ · Unread post by **Captainron@** » 10 years ago

ProJo is saying he could be done for the season? Is it that bad?

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 10 years ago

Well, if it's a serious concussion, possibly.

Might be a suspension involved too? Nobody knows yet.

Running Ram · Unread post by **Running Ram** » 10 years ago

Could be cautionary on the part of the team, but from the little we do know, assuming the report is correct, he got kicked several times while on the ground and it reads as if he perhaps landed on his head in the original fall. Or it could be as much a disciplinary action as anything else, that is of course complete speculation, there's been nothing suggested to date to believe the reasoning wouldn't be medical.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

He had a concussion last year, and missed some time.
If he has one now, that's two, maybe three, from the
incident last fall.
That someone saw him at Moe's, means he's not hospitalized.
I wouldn't go by anything in Projo, because they're not connected to
the program, although KMac has sources.
He also could be suspended, considering the hour, and that this could be a repeat
offense.
We shall see. Doubtful the whole story will ever come out, at least by the school/

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 10 years ago

I don't want to be overly critical of Aaman since helping friends out is a worthy exercise. However, as a member of a "team", you also have responsibilities to that group of guys, to your coach and the coaching staff who selected you to be a recipient of a scholarship and the University who made that grant.

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