This incident only highlights a bigger and more sinister issue. I was advised along with some of the black football players by regular white and black students to watch our backs when going to theses bars namely courtside and to never wear your football team apparel. So I did this and became friendly with some of these bar peoples..some are former students..some even used to play for ou athletics..but most for some reason or another hate ohio football or basketball players..they will let their friends skirt the line to get in..even let in 18 yr old freshmen girls..but if you are an athlete don't expect any leeway with these people...none. they dispise you with a passion..this guy Shane Gibson is a so called tough guy but he only bullies the smaller ou football players..and no fight is a fair fight because they will all jump you. Not all the bar employees have issues like these bad apples but the good apples back the bad ones up to the fullest and don't care if they sucker punched you..its a gang type athmosphere with these guys. All I ever hear is hey there's 3 big black guys trying to get in how can we refuse them entrance..we only want our people here tonite..it really disgusts me..granted this kid threw a punch first..they know Boo Jackson..I have seen Boo break up fights for the courtside employees ..this was a targeted hit on the star qb..don't be fooled.

99% of the time these issues stem from jealousy against college athletes. This bouncer is probably some big overweight slow out of shape no talent wanna be high school athlete who could never ever play at the college level. And the only thing he has left is to try to justify his manhood by fighting someone who is living the dream of what he never achieved. Trust me I've seen it over and over. Jealousy.

Glad Boo is not seriously injured.  I wonder how his brother is doing?   Couldn't agree more with your last statement that I've bolded. 

What a sad post this is.  This sort of thing does absolutely no good for anyone involved.  Let the authorities both city and university sort this out.  In the meantime it does no good to call for boycotts or anything else.  Great lessons are often learned if we reflect on what happen and why.  In this case we don't know either of those things for sure.

Really Alan? Do you own stock in Courtside? Is David Cornwall a golfing buddy? I understand your point if we're talking about some violent form of retribution, but I say bring on a boycott. Let's review the facts.

There was a dangerous amount of force (perhaps we could use the word excessive) used...
This happened outside the actual bar...
2 star OU athletes at the same establishment in 6 months...
We haven't heard word one from Courtside about how they plan to curb these disturbances...

Granted we might not have enough to go beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, but if you take everything into account (even beyond the points that bobcatblitz makes about race, which are pretty damning) there's plenty here for people to be angry with Courtside Pizza about.

So alright, maybe it's still a beat early to be talking about a boycott, I'll even give you that. But I certainly wouldn't term the idea of one as "sad" and further, if the investigation closes with no charges and Cornwall doesn't come out with a statement on how he's going to improve the Courtside experience (stop hiring employees with criminal records, specific rules of engagement for bouncers that must be followed, whatever else) then I think it is in fact time to start talking boycott. Too much smoke for there not to be fire somewhere on this. Something needs to change.

Alan was kind enough to post half the story this morning.  Just the quotes implicating the football team. Fortunately there were more quotes from the same officer telling the rest of the story.

I am more in favor of a name change verses a boycott.  Something like- Boo's Title-town Pizza has a nice ring to it.  

Courtside seems to be a kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde kind of place.  Most of the time it's a mild-mannered, friendly pizza place.  That's the part I have personal experience with.  However, it appears on weekend nights after about 9:00 or so, it becomes something entirely different.  That, I think, is what is really sad here.  Until the parties responsible for sucker punching Boo are fired, I personally will avoid Mr. Hyde in protest of Dr. Jekyll.

Sounds like they could use a cooler.  He should call the Double Deuce  --  If somebody gets in your face and calls you a c***sucker, I want you to be nice. Ask him to walk. Be nice. If he won't walk, walk him. But be nice. If you can't walk him, one of the others will help you, and you'll both be nice. I want you to remember that it's a job. It's nothing personal.

Not exactly sure why we think the football team are angels here? Athletes cause trouble up town just like some students do.  Until the full story comes out< we can't make judgements. I had a buddyw ho was there and while he said it go crazy real quick, the football players were doing their fair share to cause trouble.

What if he calls my momma a whore?

Isn't this true about most Athens bar/eating establishments uptown?  Isn't the Pub a different place at night?  The Wood is, Red Brick, Broney's and Pigskin are also different places once the night time hours hit.  That part is just Athens.  5 years ago some were on this board wanting to boycott the Pub for the same stuff.

I've stated my opinion in another thread and took some heat for it but I repeat...the coaches and athletic department can stop this confrontations immediately by mandating that athletes to stay out of uptown bars.  I guess they did that for Saturday night and if they did that is a start. 

And, give me a break...I'm not saying athletes won't drink (in or at PRIVATE residence parties), I'm not saying they can't have a girlfriend, nor am I saying OU should become the next BYU.  I'm simply saying that it is obvious there is a problem here and one way to solve the problem is to keep the athletes out of the bars.