If he cheated in the games or used performance enhancing drugs I could see removal, but deleting from records in this case is stupid.

It’s the schools fault for ignoring complaints and reports of behavior and continuing to play him. Following their own logic they should delete/forfeit all games he played in after first finding out and refund tickets and any money made above standard SEC contract while he played.

Also it’s not like schools haven’t long covered for athletes. It’s harder with social media and cameras everywhere (or delayed like in Guice’s case), but usually in past what finally made it to press was something that just could no longer have enough pressure or money to stop report. Athletes have always been treated specially in high schools and colleges, but the ones playing in money making sports are the true privileged class of students at colleges making some of comments by former players farcical. Guice wasn’t the first (still waiting for Ryan’s truth to come out) and will not be the last, and LSU is not alone by a long shot.

LSU and every other school need to stop having lower expectations of their athletes behavior than of their non-athlete students and stop covering up their mistakes and in some cases illegal activities. NCAA needs to stop letting problems just transfer and ignore becoming responsible adults.

Deleting record doesn’t fix anything and is just a distraction to real solutions including holding athletes accountable for their behavior off the field as much or more than the schools glorify and profit from their actions on the field and finding a fair system to replace the travesty that title IX has become for both sides.

This post was edited on 4/24/21 at 9:11 pm