Senior Michigan Wolverines defensive end Frank Clark has been kicked off the team following a Saturday night incident in which he allegedly struck his girlfriend at Sandusky's Miami Sands Hotel.
Per Detroit Free Press columnists Mark Snyder and Jeff Seidel, there were enough witnesses on hand for head coach Brady Hoke to dismiss Clark from the team (including the reported presence of members of the alleged victim's family), despite Clark pleading not guilty to the official charges on Monday.
"Getting all the information that we could, I could, and, in doing that, there was no decision to be made," Hoke said at his weekly news conference on Monday, via Snyder and Seidel's article.
In 2012, Hoke suspended Clark for one game and gave him a second chance after a second-degree felony home-invasion conviction.
"I don't feel burned by anything," said Hoke, who said Monday he had not spoken to Clark but planned to at some point in the future to help him rebuild his life. "I feel that's just something that can't be tolerated. You've got 18- to 22-year-olds, and maybe we've all made better decisions than they do. I don't know. But I know that ... there's a standard that they believe in and I believe in how you represent yourself and, more importantly, how you represent this program. That's one of the things we talked about. I'm going to make the decisions that are best for this program — not for this person, not for a coach, what's best for this program."
"I don't feel burned, no. That's part of mentoring. You feel like you failed a little bit," Hoke added.
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