There is nothing funny about the end of Jonnu Smith’s Florida International football career, but it adds to the short, strange history of FIU football.
Smith, a tight end who is the Golden Panthers’ best NFL prospect since Colts receiver T.Y. Hilton, got into a domestic dispute that didn’t end well. Smith’s girlfriend, five months pregnant with his child, poured boiling water on him.
The girlfriend, who admitted to the dousing in a police affidavit, was arrested for aggravated battery in the Oct. 31 incident. Smith missed the Nov. 5 game against Western Kentucky, but the reason didn’t surface until last week.