Charlie Klein
I am all in favour of a nice free laptop. And I am all for sticking one to the fraternity to score one for the common man. But Jeremiah Masoli broke bro code and the law, appearing yesterday in court to plead guilty to second degree burglary for stealing two laptops and a guitar from a fraternity in late January.
Masoli, a criminal justice major at the University of Oregon, will be quack-quacking his to one year of probation and a year-long suspension from last season's Pac-10 champions.
One part of being a sports analyst requires oneself to try and get into someone else's mind and be able to explain why they did what they did. But what Masoli did is inexplicable. A star quarterback who would have been in the running for the Heisman Trophy, who goes to the school where Nike gives away prototype training gear the way my fifth grade teacher gave away gummy bears, decides that to make a few extra bucks he'll jack some frat brother's laptop and guitar.
When college athletes mess up their lives by doing ridiculous things like this, it makes one wonder how can a person with everything that we never had or will have do something so unbelievably stupid to give it all away?
Is that unforgivable?
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