re: When I was at LSU , stuff like this (Hill incident) never happened. I swear.

I didn't get in fights in college. Once, semi-working security, I got hit on the head with a beer bottle while kicking somebody out of a bar for fighting. There was an arrest.

This was the late 80s.

Football players got in fights at bars. They would gets dismissed, suspended or punished as the coach saw fit. Sometimes it made the news, sometimes not.

Difference now is social media. Not "media" media, but social media. Word's out within minutes, not days. There's no time for a coach or school to plead with media to sweep things under the rug or for the coach to call the cops and plead with them not to make these embarrassing things public.

Different time. Probably different for the better. Can't get away with being an arse-hole jock and, guess what? Most people weren't a-hole jocks, including most athletes.

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yeah, well, now everyone has a camera on their phone and the media is more powerful.

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Actually, the media is less powerful.

When I was at LSU there were no bars. Tiger Land did not exist. Cheap beer did not exist. Sorority girls did not give out and frat boys were virgins when they married. We did not curse or drink or smoke much less think of fighting. We ate cucumber sandwiches and drank a lot of milk, and did not drink alcohol except on holidays and then only in the presence of our parents. Football players did not fight, and there were no race-based fights between athletes in Broussard Hall. We drove the speed limit. We went to every class.

I weep for our society today.

The Information Age has ruined big time college athletics.

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Now we think people should "get what they deserve"?

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A shocking notion in our criminal justice system, but yes. A good system would be one where people more frequently got what they deserve.

The bright line division between physical violence and all other forms of aggression has been accorded far too much significance in our modern society. A simple punch or slap has caused far less harm and solved far more problems than many examples of derogatory or inflamatory speech. And yet, we continue to insist that any act of physical aggression is automatically more evil than any combination of verbal or other nonphysical behaviours. That's just stupid.

The so-called "fighting words" doctrine had more merit than it was credited with having when we did away with it. Our system needs more rational analysis and less arbitrary, unjustified distinctions.

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It's about abnormally physically gifted athletes getting free access to the best strength and conditioning programs money can buy and then going out and beating up average 20 year olds who mouth off to them.

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Well, our rbs are built like lbs. An average 20 yr old male could prob beat up a lot of players. Think of the wrs and lil dbs. You think trindon wouldnt get knocked out?

Plus not sure one punch is beating some one up. Now the shadys incident is diff.

that was the good ole days when some would fight fair. now, you get stabbed or shot if you attack someone unprovoked. if not you are lucky.

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We got a bunch of old mother frickers in this place. geez

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Thank God for that. Many young dumb asses like you have no point of reference and are usually vulgar and boring. The cow goes Moo Moo indeed.

Knowing now that Hill jacked some guy from behind (twice), I think he should be kicked off the team. This wasn't a fight, it was a jumping.

1984! Great year to be a freshman at LSU! Well at least what I can remember.