Oh my gosh, 50 in a 35 ? At 3:30a in the morning a lot of 35s look like 50s. Yes of course we have all read the stories where he says, i’m human and I made a mistake. Now address the point I made about how common it is for people, especially students, to drink late at night. At that time of the night there couldn’t have been much traffic for him to endanger, especially at only 50mph. How many people could he have encountered besides the ticket writer. It sure seems like one of those situations where the officer wasn’t backed into a corner. Unless the officer was a sports dummy, he had to know the punishment was going too far exceed the crime, this kid having worked his whole life for this game. It’s a fair question, what he did… to force the had of the policeman. It wouldn’t be any different had he been a soloist the night before a violin performance or an artist with a debut gallery show. You certainly read enough of my blogs to know i’m not easy on the citizenship we should expect from student-athletes and coaches. You know what, I’m just as concerned about (if he was one) power-tripping cops, and it is a recurring thing in Columbia, MO. Every city that size, has plenty of real police work that needs to get done and a fair share of it doesn’t get done when cops over-react. And it happens in Louisiana too, by the way. The last time I was there, we got stopped at 11pm and the female driver of our car was forced to stand outside on the shoulder of a dark two lane highway for AT LEAST a half-hour, because one of the two license plates lights on the car had gone out. I’m not kidding or exaggerating. From there to Baton Rouge we counted 23 other cars driving with only one license plate light and even if they should all be stopped, that half hour delay shows a lack of professional common sense. There’s more than one thing we are not teaching well at police academy today.