Former UK Football Coach Guy Morriss Teaching His Team Not-So-Civil Disobedience

Former University of Kentucky head football coach Guy Morriss, who is now the head coach at Division-II Texas A&M-Commerce, is standing firm after some of his players recently orchestrated a mass theft of all copies of the school’s student newspapers. Players weren’t trying to organize a ‘Go Green’ campaign, but instead were taking the papers as a protest, because the front page story covered the arrest of two football players for marijuana possession. Although there have been no claims of the report being incorrect, players still thought it their duty to organize an early morning raid of all newspaper stands across campus.

In the February 25th edition of the student-ran East Texan, the busting of two Commerce players for weed was documented. This came after a related incident in January, when a recruit got sick after toking up with some current players. Amateur! Like Mystikal says: “B*t*h, you ain’t no smoker!”

No Limit rap references aside, instead of giving the standard apology about how his program doesn’t condone this type of behavior, Morriss is fully supporting the players, calling it “the best team-building exercise his team has ever done.” Morriss says he’s proud of his players for standing by their teammates.

Check out the whole story here, as it is a solid read. While Morriss’ team knows they can’t control the news in the information age (this isn’t Iran), they can at least get back at some pencil pushing journalists by taking a whole bunch of newspapers that were eventually going to be sent to the recycle bin, anyway. Perhaps after this team-building exercise, Morriss’ squad will finish better than the 5-5 record they had this past season. Whether you agree with Morriss’ position or not, you have to laugh at his devil-may-care attitude, although it may cost him his job.

Morris was 9-14 in two seasons as head coach of the Cats, taking over after the Hal Mumme fiasco. After a 7-5 season in 2002, he jetted for his home state of Texas to take the Baylor job. After five years of getting smoked in the Big 12 south, Morriss was axed, and spent last year on the Kentucky State staff before getting his current gig at A&M-Commerce.