On anything criminal, you bet. So we'll wait and see, and hopefully LE won't be a part of this. But if Scott had his head stuffed firmly up his behind again and violated team rules, I have so sympathy for him. Scott's coach and his team deserved better from Scott. Jeez louise, what is it with some of these young men?!
I second that. As I mentioned, I am acquainted with Scott's HS football career. He was coddled to his detriment because of his athletic talent. His parents moved out of state, yet it was arranged for him to stay here (living with a teacher) so he could finish out his senior year at Parkland. I don't know how they got around that, but they did.
He skipped school often and was a very poor student, but that was taken care of as well. After his senior year football season ended, JoePa came to Parkland to call on him one day. Guess what - he wasn't there - skipped school again.
I knew students who were in school with him and they were highly resentful of all the attention and accolades that were continually being paid to someone who so blatantly stretched the rules and got away with it because of teachers and staff who followed behind him cleaning up his messes.
Now none of the stuff he did was illegal, but what message was he to take with him to college? When he got to PSU, there were players as talented as he was, but respected and followed rules. Those are the players who have been playing ahead of him for the past 4 years.
I do believe in individual responsibility and that someone of Scott's age should know right from wrong, but given the fact that he was aided and abetted in his stupid behavior by adults all through high school, I place some of the blame on those permissive adults. If only a few of those had drawn a line in the sand and told Scott, you cross that line, you're out of here, things for him might have turned out very differently.