When the name of the game in big-time American university football is thug-management, it’s all about comparisons. Who recruits the most criminals? How bad – man to man offense speaking – are they? Do they steal laptops, or do they, like national champ Alabama’s crew, beat people senseless and pack heat?
Then there’s all the chatter about consequences. Ignore it? Suspend them for awhile? Suspend them indefinitely? Dismiss them?
These guys – these Alabama guys – are second stringers, so we’re being spared long articles ignoring what they’ve done and agonizing instead about how their being in jail is going to hurt the defensive line…
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UD thanks several readers for linking her to this story.
February 13th, 2013 at 7:32AM
I’m sure they’ll be suspended and then apologize for their actions being misunderstood and/or blown out of proportion…right until they’re reinstated on the eve of training camp and the new season.
Can’t wait to hear this fauxpology.
February 13th, 2013 at 2:56PM
Hey! I’m just glad it wasn’t in Texas this time.
February 13th, 2013 at 3:02PM
Chizik’s been fired, of course.
February 13th, 2013 at 4:17PM
Mighty close, JND, but not Texas.