Are we in for a PR nightmare next week?

The Jalen Mills story never even really got out to national media and faded away before the Ray Rice issue REALLY blew up with the release of the video from inside the elevator. Once he gets arraigned on Tuesday though, what happens? The story will go out on the wires and it will surely mention what he is being arraigned for. This issue is extremely toxic right now. Professional organizations and college programs are under the microscope with how they handle player-on-female violence and the prevailing thought is that the thing to do is at least suspend the player until the thing plays out. Spurrier had very strong comments after the Rice video. I won't point to the OU-Mixon deal, as they saw video of that assault, but Florida just suspended Treon Harris, who was about to be their starting quarterback, albeit for a different type of accusation. Most seem to think though that UF's swift action was largely driven by the current climate.

This post isn't about whether or not you agree with suspending first and finding out later, because the fact is that is the climate we're in right now, whether you agree with it or not. It's about what happens next week when this hits the media. Frankly, I can see it blowing up into a major national story in college football, and I think we could be in for a pretty severe PR beating if it does.

Thoughts???

ETA: The potential negative PR I'm referring to is over the fact that he has been playing all along instead of his suspension remaining in place.