Well....this seems like an injustice

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Wilson let back on team

There is no comparison between Brown's situation and this one. By all accounts, Brown is a good kid that made a mistake after being threatened by some lowlife thug. He fires a handgun in the air. Wilson punched and spat on a guy, followed him in a car, and got out with an AK 47 and fired it. He's also been arrested for marijuana possession. Wilson is playing SEC football. Brown is not. The difference is obviously that it happened on campus, but I've got to say, that doesn't seem fair.
 

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...because the article didn't mention it. And I agree somewhat. As a parent, I have to believe that colleges won't tolerate weapons being fired on campus. I'm just commenting on how ridiculous it is that Wilson, who is apparently a pretty sorry human being, gets let back on the team, and somebody like Brown is not. Should the rule change? No. But it sucks.
 

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He shot a gun on campus for God's sake. He isn't the fine upstanding individual you're making him out to be. Wilson should not have been allowed back on the team but Brown certainly should not have either.
 

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permanently. So, interestingly enough, they don't let you play football for a school you do not and cannot attend.

It's really pretty simple. On the other hand, there are probably a variety of convicts on MSU's campus who did not committ their crime on campus. I wonder if they even run a criminal background check on students? They don't ask about it on the admission application, I don't believe.
 

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Yep, that's the rules. As long as it's off campus, I don't believe the school itself can do a whole lot about it. I think I remember Khayat or someone recently trying to come up with some form of a 3 strikes rule, and it may have applied to off-campus issues, but I don't think that's typically the case, and honestly I haven't heard much about it, so it probably never happened.

Anyway, if Brown had done this off-campus, there is a good chance he'd still be on your team with some sort of punishment.

That article makes an argument I've heard plenty of times. You've often got guys from less privliged backgrounds that might not run with the right crowd. However, if you help teach them a lesson rather than kicking them to the curb, you may change the direction of the guy's life. The two examples they give of Meyer giving a guy a second chance and letting one go are good examples. Watching the guy with the second chance turn himself into a productive citizen and watching the guy that got kicked off end up dead of drug overdose makes it hard on coaches.