Bison Linebacker Travis Beck to plead guilty to resisting arrest

NDSU linebacker Travis Beck to plead guilty to resisting arrest. http://t.co/wyU8fmxk1M
— WDAZsports (@WDAZsports) August 5, 2013

What's this? I thought that there was nothing to see there folks? I thought that Travis Beck was a victim of the Fargo Police Department? Hum, this is interesting. Now, it will also be interesting to see if the NDSU football coach Craig Bohl will finally suspend Travis Beck for a game or two? I am willing to bet that Bohl will say that were handling this matter internally and nothing will happen because we all know that winning is the only things that matters.

Emily Welker, Forum News – A starting linebacker with the North Dakota State University football team is set to plead guilty to resisting arrest charges later this month.

The guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge would come after prosecutors dropped a more serious felony assault charge against Travis Beck, 21.

Both charges were linked to a brawl outside a down-town Fargo restaurant after bar closing earlier this summer in which police said Beck knocked the other man unconscious.

The more serious charges were dropped by county prosecutors after they said surveillance video from nearby businesses and police cameras showed Beck might have been acting in self-defense. The video also showed four officers converging on Beck after the fight, during which he seems to struggle as they handcuff him

Imagine if this was a UND hockey player? I would be willing to bet that we wouldn't be hearing crickets, like we are in this case. Recently, an Ohio State football player was suspended because he didn't walk away from a fight.

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McFeely on the Travis Beck incident.

(cont.) As officers yelled at pair to stop, suspects ran inside apartment building. Police later caught one suspect (Beck) leaving building.
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 10, 2012

It's too easy... This is a snap shot of KFGO 790 A.M. radio talk show host Mike McFeely and his twitter feed today. You can see that McFeely broke down the Travis Beck incident pretty well. As most of you know NDSU's Football team has had a few of their players get into trouble with the law. If you have been reading the Fargo and Grand Forks newspapers or watching the local news you will see that the NDSU Football players are making the news on and off of the football field.

More on Travis Beck sitch: Beck and another person were walking near NDSU campus at 3 a.m. on July 21. One was carrying parking sign (more)
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 10, 2012

For the UND football fans that went to school during the 1990's you probably can still remember - this is kind of reminiscent of the Rocky Hagler days when he has the head coach of the NDSU Bison and they too had fair number of players that got in trouble with the law - just like Craig Bohl's players have this past year and into the summer. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming days and weeks. I am sure that Craig Bohl will probably say that this is a whole lot to do about nothing.

(cont.) Police say Beck had been drinking when they tried to stop him near campus July 20, but he ran. He was MVP of title game.
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 10, 2012

(cont.) Beck pleaded not guilty to Class B misdemeanor charges in August, but will attend a change of plea hearing tomorrow.
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 10, 2012

People can say why does it matter - here is the problem - Craig Bohl knew that the petition fraud charges were coming down on 10 his players and the could have ended all of this with simply suspending his players for their game against RMU and this would have been over. Instead head coach Craig Bohl and the Athletic director choose to say this.

NDSU starting linebacker Travis Beck will have 2nd court appearance tomorrow for minor consumption and resisting arrest. (more)
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 10, 2012

“There are not going to be any suspensions,” Taylor emphatically said after the game. “These kids don’t deserve a suspension. I’m not going to suspend them and neither is Craig (head coach Craig Bohl). As far as we are concerned, it is over.”

By making comments like this Bohl is actually putting his program under the scope - so just when the head coach thought maybe this would pass a the Travis Beck incident just compounds what happened last weekend.