re: 'It's unethical': LSU DB Kristian Fulton, through attorney, fighting two-year NCAA ban

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Do you think the punishment will help him be a better person going forward? Isn't that what this supposed to be about? Helping these kids be better people on and off the field?

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No. I don't think the punishment will help him be a better person. It will (or should) keep him from trying to break this rule again. But breaking this rule certainly doesn't make him a bad person. (most) PEDs aren't illegal in the actual world. Just in the NCAA world. I don't think Laron Landry was/is a bad person.

But I'm not really here to argue the ethics of it.

So many other seemingly much more important rules are broken all the time (guns, weed, domestic abuse). The SEXUAL ABUSE scandal at Baylor got Briles fired but the NCAA collectively said "meh" and not a single sanction or suspension was leveled against the program or ex coach.
Hugh Freeze was suspended two games?
Jerry Sandusky molested 52 kids while Penn state watched over a period of 15 freaking years.. and their suspension was basically 4 games. No bowl games for 4 years.

And here's Fulton.. being dumb. The NCAA has the small dick syndrome that day.. and they want to make an example.. and they throw down a punishment much harsher than all of those examples put together.

The lack of depth sucks. but it's certainly not why I'm mad about this. The entire NCAA is such a ridiculous institution, absolutely oozing with hypocrisy. They are why I'm mad.