{"id":1355415,"date":"2021-04-25T01:45:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T05:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1355415"},"modified":"2021-04-25T01:45:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T05:45:22","slug":"lsu-tigers-erased-1-of-the-all-time-greats-from-past-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/lsu-tigers-erased-1-of-the-all-time-greats-from-past-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The LSU Tigers Erased 1 of the All-Time Greats From Their Past and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

School administrators wish LSU Tigers<\/a> running back Derrius Guice<\/a> never existed. Now, it\u2019s almost as though he didn\u2019t. While they thus far have expressed no desire to hand back any of their 26 victories in 37 games while Guice was there, LSU officials have wiped the former star\u2019s name from their record books and declared him persona non grata<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a small step toward addressing a public relations problem. It almost certainly is no consolation to the women making accusations against Guice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serious accusations against Derrius Guice<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Derrius Guice ranks fifth in LSU Tigers history with 3,074 rushing yards and is tied for seventh with 29 career rushing touchdowns. He also has two of LSU\u2019s top-10 single-season rushing tallies \u2013 1,387 yards as a sophomore in 2016 and then 1,251 as a junior. | John Korduner\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Derrius Guice arrived at the Washington Football Team<\/a> training camp last summer poised to make an impact following two surgeries in two years. Washington had veteran Adrian Peterson and third-round rookie Antonio Gibson, but a healthy Guice, a 2018 draft pick, had shown promise in his five games in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That plan fell apart on Aug. 8, 2020, when Washington waived the LSU Tigers great after domestic violence charges against him. The New York Post<\/a>\u00a0reported that Guice turned himself in to police a day earlier and faced one count of felony strangulation, three counts of assault and battery, and destruction of property. Once reporters started digging, they found a reckless driving incident in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was merely the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA Today<\/a>\u00a0reported the following week that two former LSU students said Derrius Guice raped them after his freshman season as a backup to Leonard Fournette<\/a>. The women\u2019s allegations were reported to LSU Tigers athletic staff and a nurse but that the school did not investigate. A third woman subsequently alleged that Guice had taken a partially nude photo of her and shared it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guice\u2019s attorney,\u00a0Peter Greenspun, denied the reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSuch speculation and innuendo should not be the basis for Derrius to be required to make any comment at all,\u201d Greenspun said<\/a>. \u201cBut he wants to be absolutely clear. The allegations in this story are just that and have no basis in fact.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LSU has been investigating and doing some soul-searching<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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