re: Link to Jeremy Hill Fight Video

After reading most of the posts on this and other ones and having watched the video a half a dozen times I can say without a doubt that there are two ways of seeing what happened.

There are the fans who want wins at any cost and are ready to forgive anything short of murder (hey maybe even murder) as long as that big NC comes our way. I guess you might throw in there the thugs, frat rats, alcoholics, that think getting drunk in bars and getting into fights is part of the "college experience".

Those folks are upset that he was arrested and even more upset that Miles didn't immediately say that it wasn't a problem and that he will play football this fall. They claim he has been singled out because he is a football player and it would have been no big thing if it had happened to a "regular person".

Then there are those that point out this is the guys second run in with the law in 12 months and that he was lucky that he served no jail time the first time. And yes, they agree that he was singled out because he was a star football player, but they say it is the other way around and that he has gotten breaks the "regular person" wouldn't have gotten.

Although LSU fans, they want a program they can be proud of, as well as a program that wins. They long for a time when coaches didn't make more money than anyone else in the state and sportsmanship was at least given lip service if not always practiced. When most players were grateful at being given a chance at an education and didn't look at it as training for a pro career most of them will never have.

As for me, I lean towards the second group, which you could probably already tell. I will always be an LSU fan, nothing will ever change that. But if Jeremy Hill is on the team, even if he is playing great football, I will always have that video in my mind and feel a little diminished because of it.