First your attempting to compare students going to college for law school to kids going to college for football which is almost night and day. The law school student has to show a superior intelligent or SAT type score to get in and the normal football guy or athlete if he is good enough they will bend the scores. Those same players at the major schools see the rules bent all the time for them and their college teammates in terms of receiving penalties for bad grades, drugs and alcohol along with what I will call inappropriate behavior that the regular student would be penalized. Girls are throwing themselves at these guys all at the same time and the university alumni and staff are patting their athletes on the back reinforcing that their athletes are a bit above the rules.
Throw in a million of dollars the first rounders get paid coming out, youth, reinforcement of their irresponsible behavior at the university level and you really have a toxic situation in the making that few men would handle well. Law students whole different story they are studying the law so they know what to avoid and smart enough to cover it up. So their is really little comparison in the case you made. A normal working joe would be the guy you might want to use as your sample case in the future and he probably would be dismissed from his job the first time after such an incident.
Getting back to Pouncy who is a very immature individual who plays football well. While like you I would love to see more maturity on his part but I can live with it until he does something more criminal than the recreational street drugs and alcohol.
This is a mercenary business and the real personal responsibility went out the window when the lawyers walked through the door to fill their pockets with gold off the athletes backs with what we call free agency today so lets call a spade a spade.
