Postby hillhunter » Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:20 pm
I'm not saying what he did was right or defending it at all.....
He wasn't at state when he did it. He wasn't even enrolled yet. Not sure Dan has much of a case to be the one handing out punishment on this one. I'm not gonna get into all the "second chances" that schools give kids, you know when a kid gets kicked off one team for assaulting coaches then goes to juco for a year and then oh we need a QB so let's overlook his past....
Or when kids in general are dismissed from other schools for "violating team rules" which may or may not be specified and they just happen to fit a need at a school, then what do you know, everyone forgets about it if he's a good enough DE, OL, WR, etc.... They just know he can play. And then someone runs a pregame story about how he's learned his lesson, or he just had a hard time growing up, etc..... Who cares? Really? Schools don't sign hard luck cases for the heck of it, the sign them cause they are good football players.
I'm not gonna get into any of the cultural issues that come to mind on this one.... Just not gonna.
The sooner everyone realizes that we aren't recruiting choir boys to play at our schools the better off we will all be. I do expect them to handle themselves accordingly when on campus or representing the university, but I would go out on a limb and say 10-20% of every one of the high profile recruits have been in similar circumstances, it just wasn't recorded on a smartphone.
That said if he does it again, the school will most definitely have to answer for it and it won't be pretty for MSU for a PR standpoint. I can tell you what they weren't going to do though, and that's this.... They weren't going to release him just so he could go down the road to OM, AU, AL, etc and have to play against him for the next three years. And if you think that wasn't possible then you need to get your head out of the sand.
work hard, play hard
