re: Sympathy for Jefferson's situation

If he is guilty of what he may be guilty of, I don't have a bit of sympathy for him. If so, what he did, two weeks before the season opener was ridiculously stupid.

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JJ is a good kid. When all is settled, hopefully his life will not be ruined.

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One bad decision in your youth shouldn't dictate the rest of your life.

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didn't charles barkley throw a guy through a bar window?

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that was turrible.

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If he is guilty of what he may be guilty of, I don't have a bit of sympathy for him

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If someone started shite with you, and you beat the dog shite out of them, think you should go to jail?

I lay as much blame on the dude who got himself into the situation that resulted in his arse kicking.

ETA- I don't say this because I am a JJ supporter. I don't know which QB should play. But I don't think JJ's life needs to significantly changed because of a bar fight.

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If he is guilty of what he may be guilty of, I don't have a bit of sympathy for him

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This is where we disagree, and the whole point of my post.

Even if he is the ringleader of every bad tidbit of information that's being reported/misreported, I still feel horrible for the kid, under the theory that if if he is anyone other than the LSU qb, this is a complete non-story.

Again, if you/I barfight at age 21 in Murphy's, Shady's, the Bengal, whereever......nothing happens. The price to pay is at most some fines, some bruises, some damaged ego (assuming me/you were the arse kickees, and not the arse kickers).

For him though, the price paid =/= the actions. And that's evening assuming the kickee's DIDN'T deserve it. If they DID deserve it, it border the "wow - just wow" suck factor.

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we have all done plenty of things we wish we would not have done but you have to be responsible enough to say I put myself in a bad situation so now I have to live with the consequences. Its taking ownership of what I do no one made me do the things I have done and no one is responsible for me but me....

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Out of shear curiosity, what about some kids on the other side also taking responsibility? From what I can tell, the other party initially misrepresented their part in this (officially, in a legal statement).

Apparently despite any injuries suffered, they were examined at an ER and released (not held overnight for observation, or taken in for surgery, or even fitted with a brace), so I would argue the injuries weren't considered serious- newsflash: not all fractures are equal. Quite a few of us might well have some if we are involved in physical activities and not even know it.

There seems to be a pretty strong indication that the other party waited outside in the parking lot to confront JJ et al; if that is indeed the case I don't really have that much sympathy for them. "Oh he got hurt bad"; well then maybe he shouldn't go looking to fight. Maybe the players escalated too much, or maybe they didn't, but the expression "don't start nothin', won't be nothin'" comes into play here.

As for breaking curfew and going out on the last night of summer camp, that apparently is an unwritten tradition. Pretty sure going to a campus bar is norm for kids that age.