Jemere Holland, a wide receiver for the University of Oregon football team was dismissed from the team after he posted an expletive-filled message to his Facebook page.  Chip Kelly, the head coach for the team, made a statement that he dismissed Holland for violating team rules.

Holland was mistakenly under the impression that star linebacker, Kristian Kiko Alonso, was dismissed from the team after a recent arrest for a DUI.  This misunderstanding prompted his tirade on his Facebook page.

Alonso is the fourth football player to be arrested in the past month.  He was arrested less than a day after Kelly held a press conference addressing the team’s off-field issues.

Holland, who transferred to Oregon from the University of Southern California, had 17 catches for 252 yards and two touchdowns in his two years with the team.  He is the second Oregon player to be dismissed from the team in the last month.  But it remains a mystery as to why Holland believed that Alonso’s drunk driving arrest and subsequent DUI charge led to his being dismissed from the team when that clearly was not the case.

Washington has had its share of football related drunk driving incidents as well.  Perhaps the best known of which was when Seattle Seahawks’ head coach Dennis Erickson was arrested for a Washington DUI.  Erickson’s WA State DUI charge remains a black mark on his record, though he has not had any similar driving under the influence of intoxicants incidents since.