FSU lowers (half) the boom on Jameis Winston

Current college troublemaker and future NFL troublemaker Jameis Winston took time out from stealing everything on campus not nailed down to act like an incredible azz at the student union where he stood on a table and yelled obscenities.  Winston is a petty thief with a petty mind who can throw a football so whatever he does is all OK at Florida State University.

Word is that Winston is a “smart kid.”  I don't know him, but given what I can read about him, I doubt it.  Smart kids don’t get accused of sexual assault, theft –twice, and don’t act like azzes in the student union.  I suspect Winston is smart in the same way The Empty Suit is smart.  He’s just a smarmy Eddie Haskle type putting on a show until the adults leave the room.

FSU football coach Jimbo Fisher, figuring he’d only needs his star for two quarters in Saturday’s contest against Clemson, suspended his foulmouthed thieving quarterback for the first half of the game.  That’ll teach him.  That will teach him that no matter what he does the adults at FSU will cover for him.  Assault a coed?  No problem, campus police will so mishandle the case the charges will be dropped.  Steal food from the grocery?  No problem, just do it during the baseball season and sit out half an inning.  Steal fountain drinks?  No problem, it’s not as if it were diamond ring.  Stand on a table in the student union shouting misogynist obscenities?  No problem Jimbo’s got you covered.

In a post under, Lex noted that we do not have a problem raising boys.  We have a problem raising pampered athletic boys.  The break always seems to go to the offender.  Jim Tressell former head coach at The OSU was always covering for his players.  The meme went that these are young people who make mistakes.  We don’t want to ruin their lives.  Hey coach!  Their lives are being ruined by people like you who constantly cover for their poor decisions and criminal behavior.  One name - Maurice Clarrett. 

Given his past record, if anyone at FSU was looking out for Winston instead of the next National Championship or Heisman Trophy, they’d suspend him for two games - minimum.  They’d make it clear that one more violation of team or campus rules will lead to the revocation of his scholarship.  No matter how much Winston desperately needs or deserves such discipline, that will never happen. 

This is why the NFL has problems.  The entire league is made up of Jameis Winstons.  Not that they all have the same thieving instincts as Winston or tendency toward stupid behavior and disregard for rules and the people around him as Winston.  The overwhelming majority do not.  They are all star athletes who have had doors opened for them from a very young age based on their athletic ability.  Most are model citizens who give back to the community in ways never known.  That’s the problem.  We don’t know about the 90%.  We are now experiencing it’s always the loud obnoxious 10% that get 99.9998% of the attention.