Our Views: A sad event for LSU fans

When LSU football players, even former players, get in trouble with the law, it’s a sadness for LSU fans. But an arrest for possession of marijuana by Tyrann Mathieu is particularly heartbreaking.

That Mathieu had been dismissed from the team was a blow to the Tigers and to the generation of young people who looked up to the “Honey Badger’s” playing brilliance.

Now this, with three other former LSU players.

These young men are innocent until proven guilty in court. But in the court of public opinion, the fans wonder how this predicament came about.

We had hoped to see Mathieu once more glorying in victory in Tiger Stadium. But that would require a self-discipline that the young New Orleans star appears not to have.

Comments

1) Comment by Clem - 05/11/2012

Let me add this. I was in a way surprised that Jordan Jefferson was involved in this incident. I felt that He had some involvement in the bar incident and possibly had learned from that but His presence in the new adventure sheds some light on his aspirations also. Poor fellow has a long mountain to climb now. For me You're on your own great football player. His football skills also got him a lot further down the road than a person who didn't have that advantage. And now He's showing us His real character.

2) Comment by Clem - 05/11/2012

I think this was too easy for Mr. Miles to get all the credit. This guy is a walking time bomb and a lot of people knew that a long long time ago but because He has football skills He was able to hang in a long time. Mr. Miles hung with him until He could no longer handle the situation. Mr. Miles gets little credit as I see it. The HB shot himself in the foot so many times Mr. Miles just could feel the pain himself. Ah what football skills can do for you - or in this case undo you. Actually, the guy has limited football skills. Very limited! And now they may be extinct.

3) Comment by Bouncer - 05/11/2012

I'm "commenting" for the same reason you are: to be sure that I get my absolutely worthless two cents in. Here's another "comment" for you, since you asked: f*** off.

4) Comment by DMJ - 05/11/2012

It's just a little weed, folks. It's not like he was slinging crack or cooking meth out in Livingston Parish. Weed will be legal in a few years' time anyway, and all this talk of "druggies" and "drugheads" will look all the more stupid.

5) Comment by Bouncer - 05/11/2012

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6) Comment by bourbon-soda - 04/11/2012

So why are you commenting?

7) Comment by Bouncer - 04/11/2012

Oh, please. Will you people stop whining and kvetching because some ball-playing morons with the collective intelligence of a claw hammer got busted for drugs? Such a thing is completely irrelevant to anyone who has a life and who is grounded in reality.

8) Comment by tradewinns - 04/11/2012

he and his cohorts are just druggies. now that their foorball careers are over and the public adoration is ended, it is just a matter of time before law enforcement puts them away. now they are just street thugs who use to play football.

9) Comment by bourbon-soda - 04/11/2012

Criminals with an idolized skill set irrelevant to most of civilized life but readily transferred to street crime. The generation referenced above could start to recover from this blow by ignoring them and doing its homework.

10) Comment by ScotB - 04/11/2012

Turns out he's a drughead that plays football well. Miles made the right call and saw him for what he was before the rest of us. I'm glad he cut out the cancer before it hurt the team.