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In light of the video and leaked messages, I just want to say how awful I feel for this kid. I get he made some mistakes, but last night was something he has probably been dreaming about his whole life, and someone was actively trying to ruin his life in the midst of it. What should have been a dream turned into a nightmare.
EDIT: Now deadspin is reporting someone has been trying to sell the bong video for weeks. Someone is really trying to screw this guy.

Can they work? Yes, the Carolina Panthers showed it can be done even in the NFL with Stewart and Williams for years.

Will it work? I dunno, is Shane still our RB coach?

Were those who were slaves able to work towards changing it?

I get where you're coming from, but this is a poor comparison. Slavery was only abolished when the laws changed, and some of the most prominent abolitionists were former slaves. Additionally, there's no law forcing these kids to smoke weed. If the law said "you have to smoke weed," this would be a better comparison.

Just to note, I'm not interested in arguing for/against this as an example. Just providing you with some feedback on your choice of basis.

Vending machine in the pit goes back to 1979 when I started. We didn't get jrs back then. Most of my floor was called down to the residence hall head office by individual room and were told if the crap didn't stop, we were getting thrown out of the residence hall. I won't go into all the details but it involved a long going battle of very large pranks against another floor in the dorm.

Are you beating the horse because it's a dead horse, or because it's a high horse?

Either way. Man, you sure showed me.

That's really what makes this such a crappy situation. We all know he wasn't just using the money for pot or someth-well, let's table that for a second. But yeah, sometimes families legitimately do struggle, and even though the kid is gonna sign a contract worth millions of dollars in 3 years, Momma needs help with the bills by Tuesday. So on the one hand, I can't blame coaches for wanting to help out (300 bucks for an SEC coach is pocket change, after all). The problem is it's done in such a shady way, it certainly appears to be coaches using this kid's family's struggles as leverage to convince him to come play football for them, and that's about as screwed up as it gets.

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