re: Oregon St about to be 2 and bar-b-que

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Once he was accused, right-minded lawyers would tell him, you have a bright future - admit it for a lesser charge and seal it and make this stain go away.

That's what people don't realize. Everyone says, oh I would have fought it tooth and nail. Bullshite, once you go to trial innocent or guilty, the stain would've followed him and nobody would've recruited him. Guilty by accusation...happens a lot in society and especially in sports and especially in emotionally charged situations like this where nobody really cares about the outcome but simply the accusation.

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FWIW this would have been the same advice he’d be given even if he was guilty or innocent. That he was talked into a plea doesn’t mean he was also innocent. It’s possible, sure. However, regardless of whether or not he did it, I do think OSU knowing about it and still signing him only because they knew the records were sealed (no publicity) says a lot, about OSU and us as a society.