10-16-2020, 01:32 PM
Well, this is a bit of a rehash, but for those who don't recall...
According to police a 16 year-old girl was assaulted by four Eastside Catholic High football players (Hayden was present but did not participate). No charges were filed by the King County prosecutor.
If the above--gleaned from the Spokesman-Review--is accurate, there's plenty of bad optics to go around.
As far as optics for Stanford or WSU, I don't know. Stanford pulled Hector's scholarship, WSU isn't giving him one, at least not yet.
Let me put it this way: If Hector had been a non-athlete admit to Stanford, would they have revoked his admissions? If not, would he have been allowed to walk-on to Stanford's football team?
I don't even pretend to know what the right answer is because I don't know the facts. So we're left with optics instead.
According to police a 16 year-old girl was assaulted by four Eastside Catholic High football players (Hayden was present but did not participate). No charges were filed by the King County prosecutor.
If the above--gleaned from the Spokesman-Review--is accurate, there's plenty of bad optics to go around.
As far as optics for Stanford or WSU, I don't know. Stanford pulled Hector's scholarship, WSU isn't giving him one, at least not yet.
Let me put it this way: If Hector had been a non-athlete admit to Stanford, would they have revoked his admissions? If not, would he have been allowed to walk-on to Stanford's football team?
I don't even pretend to know what the right answer is because I don't know the facts. So we're left with optics instead.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)