Go Hokies!

This past week Marcus Vick, quarterback for Virginia Tech and younger brother of NFL star Mike Vick, was dismissed from his team. Virginia Tech sited a long history of trouble with Mr. Vick, the most recent incident being his behavior at the Gator Bowl, where he was nationally televised stomping on a defensive lineman's leg.
This past weekend, still claiming that the Gator Bowl incident was an accident, Marcus Vick announced he would participate in this April's NFL draft.
Today he was arrested on charges that he threatened three teenagers with a gun at a McDonald's in Suffolk.

I can't help feeling that, as bad as Marcus Vick appears to be, it isn't really fair to single him out. Sure, he's selfish, reckless, and violent, but then, isn't college football meant for people like that?
Take for example this last season when, following the VA Tech/Miami game in which Miami gave Tech its first loss of the season, there was a drunken riot featuring numerous beatings, rapes, attempted rapes, a stabbing, and one incident in which an 18-year-old freshman was found beaten into a coma (He died later that week).
And then there's the fun story about the students at Tech and other schools who have football scholarships but live in subsidized housing so they can pocket their $500 a month housing stipends.

So Hokie fans commit rape and murder when their team loses and Hokie players cheat poor people out of subsidized housing, but God forbid the quarterback step on somebody's calf muscle, THAT's inexcusable.
All Marcus Vick did was drive under the influence, attempt to seriously injure a member of an opposing team, and threaten some kids with a gun; bad surely, but not murderin', rapin', cheatin' single welfare mothers type bad. He's not near ready for the pros.