Except for the fucking victim.

SAN ANTONIO – Texas backup quarterback Case McCoy and injured linebacker Jordan Hicks were suspended and sent home a day before Saturday’s Valero Alamo Bowl against Oregon State.

The suspensions of the two juniors came a few hours after a report by San Antonio TV station KENS 5 that two Texas players were at the center of a sexual assault investigation involving a 21-year-old woman at a downtown San Antonio hotel early Friday morning. The names of the players were redacted in the police report supplied to the media. A spokeswoman for the San Antonio police department said late Friday afternoon that the investigation was on-going and no arrests had been made.

Sources with knowledge of the decision confirmed that McCoy and Hicks were the two suspended players. One source indicated that one of the team rules broken involved a curfew violation.

...and it's happening a lot. The woman always gets ostracized and the players' reps go into the toilet even if they continue to play. It's hard to find justice when the blame-the-victim mentality is so widespread that many cases don't make it to court.

I followed the Michael Dixon situation at Missouri, including the real-time Twitter blow-ups. What made it so infuriating was the report that the first alleged victim said she was warned by another player to keep her mouth shut. The woman in the Notre Dame scenario also believed she was in a David vs. Goliath situation pitting her against the ND establishment.

Texas put up the players in a downtown San Antonio hotel for about five nights. The UT campus is only about an hour's drive from the Alamodome.

I bet this won't happen again.

When you are in a bowl game, you always treat it like a road game.