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Sip, I hope you're right. Too often, however, the supposedly good kids are figments of imagination produced by the myth-making collective -- sports writers and coaches and boosters who ignore the flaws because everybody benefits from those who are unnaturally gifted at games.
That said, some of these players have never been away from home, don't have the context to keep their own celebrity in perspective and often don't consider consequences because they've rarely faced any. The odd thing here is that they could have all walked over to The Strip, identified themselves as Alabama football players (as if that would have been necessary), asked for money, and dozens of people would have lined up to empty their wallets.
Instead, they beat and robbed. That need for violence and the reminder of their physical superiority are troubling, and they've left the best coach alive at a loss for words.
When I was in school, there were regular reports about how one of Bear's "good Christian boys" had pummeled some regular student at a fraternity partys and what not. That was assault. It was rarely, if ever, punished. But it was not robbery. To give up so much for so little. To leave a trail for police as wide as University Boulevard. Then to confess like they couldn't wait to get the word out. Well, it's almost childlike.
Violent, imbecilic kids.