Look-everyone knows your schtick on here by now. You have decided to take the mantle of the most negative person on this board for some reason and revel in it. So don't pretend that we all don't see what you are doing. The only reason why you care one whit about what Gerry Di Nardo says is that he isn't very high on us.
I would be interested in you providing us all with a list of misdemeanor offenses that you think scream out to heaven for the offender to be immediately fired from his/her job.
Instead of spending 30 minutes on your bullet points, spend five minutes and consider this job-related penalty is just the tip of the iceberg. This is a legal issue for which he will surely be punished severely. So cheer up -- and then go away.
If the players were of legal age then I see no problem. I am a retired college prof. I often would go out after class with my legal age students to a local pub and continue our class conversations over a drink or two. These aren't little kids. They are adults. I wager a lot of coaches sometimes share a drink with legal age players
Exactly, what he did was wrong but you do not help things ruining his career. Maybe he will make this into a positive in the long run
Domestic abuse doesn't even need a conviction to get you fired and a misdemeanor is the same a felony to the average Joe.
Correct. But it isn't an automatic firing either. Context and circumstances are everything. And that is the only point I am making to those who are claiming that unless NU fires Williams then something horribly unjust has gone wrong. Maybe he should be fired. I respect the reasoning behind that choice. But maybe, given all the facts, facts to which we are not privy, the point of view that says he should be retained is also respectable. I just hate the kind of inflammatory BS posts where people come on here all sanctimonious and screaming that unless you favor firing this guy you are just a coward who loves football more than the victims of drunk drivers. Things are not always that black and white
And Lawrence Philips was guilty of domestic abuse, yet Osborne let him back on the team after a suspension and treatment.
So let me get this straight... If someone does something against the law, and gets caught, we have to automatically assume that he does it way more often than he is caught? And how often do we get beat 5-9 times a year? And has already been posted, his suspension includes no pay...
It is the job of the legal system, not employers, to protect society from people who break the law. To that end, a whole system has been put in place to properly punish such offenders. But now we see once again, in your post, this new extra-legal punishment that you think society must impose on law breakers: they must also lose their jobs. Even though the law does not mandate this, and even though the individuals in question will face punishment requisite to the crime in our legal system, according to you, "doing the right thing", means we must take further punitive actions into our own collective hands, and fire these people from their jobs.
Prosecutor would have done the same for anyone because they have a better chance at winning but believe what you want.
