Letter to Mark Walton: How can you be so&*#(ing stupid. Are you trying to self distruct your career.
Do you realize you've let your team mates and your fan base down ? This arrest of yours will
also be recorded by NFL teams. You'll be damned lucky if Coach Richt lets you back otherwise
you just might be playing some JC in S.Dakota.
Even the Boston Globe has an article on you! You're famous son. For the wrong reasons.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/football/2016/04/23/log/QP4pXkuYZhYHOr5D1QzMBJ/story.html
It's different when you do a stupid thing like that when you are nobody. But you are kind of a celebrity in the making and there is a price for that. Many will argue that so many young people have done the same mistake so it's not a big deal. The big difference is, they were not in the news all the time, have followings and local celebrity status. They are not under the microscope like someone famous who is on the way to start making millions and millions of dollars and maybe be featured on cereal boxes and in TV commercials. That's the price to pay for success.
You will be held to a higher standards than your cousin who works at Walmart.
Not if you live in Tuscaloosa, Tallahassee, or pretty much any other college town in America. The ignorance is so strong itt that I have to presume it's populated, with few exceptions, by comments from octogenarians with early onset dementia or socially awkward, pimple faced prodigies of Westboro Baptist church.
Almost every college kid drinks -- most binge drink and weekly exhibit exponentially greater recklessness than Walton did here, even presuming all the worst rumors are true (which they are not). I personally witnessed, for years, the Tallahassee PD hold certain fraternity members and almost all college athletes to much, much lower standards than your average Walmart worker. In most college towns, celebrity brings entitlement and protection rather than scrutiny and pitchforks.
DUI is not a joke -- though the moron who suggested that DUI should be decriminalized is. But, despite what Uncle Puke may say, nothing is black and white in these cases. BAC thresholds are almost as arbitrary as the cops' enforcement of DUI laws. And, the extent to which consumption impairs judgment is anything but uniform. For example, I could drink a flask of bourbon and present much less of a danger on the roads than most of the residents of this fine Banana Republic. If held to Walton's standards, almost the entire judiciary in South Florida would be sitting in the hoosegow after every single bar and fundraising event.
Walton should not be held to a higher standard. He certainly should not be the subject of a patently unprofessional, sensationalist tweet and hashtag by the police department. Nor should he be confronted at the steps of the jailhouse by local media like he's OJ skipping out the LAPD backdoor while Nicole Simpson's body is still warm and have the video posted as "news" by some bimbo auditioning for TMZ.
And to the condescending dolts harping on the severity of driving with a suspended license, you need to step away from the interwebz for awhile, venture outside, and get laid. Any coach who gives a player anything more than a slap on the wrist for that offense, especially without any previous history, needs to go coach P.E. at King's Academy. I've had my license suspended about 5 times in my life for failure to pay tickets and I've managed somehow to escape the trappings of the criminal life. That's less disturbing and morally reprehensible than parking in a handicap spot outside the movie theater.
Thankfully, I trust we have a coach who will not let the media or police dictate how he will evaluate and react to this situation. Walton should get tough love this summer and be put on probation by Richt -- nothing more.
