Roland Griffin Says He Was Kicked Off The Iona Basketball Team After Getting Into A Fight With An Assistant Coach
ESPN- Iona senior forward Roland Griffin said he was kicked off the team after a physical altercation in which he punched an assistant coach earlier in the week.
Griffin told Stadium in a story published Friday that he punched assistant coach Garfield “Ricky” Johns multiple times Monday morning but said he did so in self-defense after Johns “tried to wrestle me down” after a face-to-face verbal confrontation in the locker room.
“It was really heated,” Griffin told Stadium. “He eventually grabbed me by the jacket and tried to throw me down on the ground physically. We were against the locker, wrestling against the locker. He was grabbing me and holding me. “He tried to wrestle me down, and I ended up on top. I’m not going to let another man physically do that to me. I punched him four or five times, then I stopped.” According to the report, Johns was hospitalized with a head injury after the altercation, was later released and had yet to return to work this week.
Well this is some shit, huh? You have a full on brawl between a player and a coach. That’s not exactly something you see or hear every day. Obviously this isn’t something you want to see and I doubt this is the first or last time we’ll hear something like that. But, now he potentially faces a suspension for 2 years and off the team. What we don’t know is what exactly started it. Like why is there a fight? Just insane all the way around.
Editor’s Note: Hey, this is Clem. Just wanted to put it on the record that Reags wrote this blog while at a wedding and sent it to me to publish on the blog. Nothing really to add other than I want half of the pageviews for making this all possible since the holidays are coming up and I now have to make Christmas special for two (2) kids and fight blogs are Pageviews Silver (Pageviews Gold are the T&A blogs that Clickbait Smits writes). I will also not mention how Siena College would never let such an ugly incident sully the good name of the MAAC Conference because it’s not my place, even though nobody should let a guy named Garfield push them around. Anyway, credit to me for taking the high road.