We don't even know if Rueben made a bad decision.
There were three other people in the car. One of whom was not a football player. Nobody knows if Rueben was the designated driver. Nobody knows what happened with the other vehicle. ****, a week ago, I was going north on US 1, heading up onto I-95, and there was some dip**** who just STOPPED in the right lane. No idea why, maybe he was lost, maybe he had car trouble, but it was dark and I'm lucky I saw the dude in time as the road was curving towards the left.
All of this nonsense is pure speculation. Did someone die? Sadly, yes. That doesn't mean that anyone did anything wrong. When cops write citations, it is almost always WITHOUT having witnessed the accident. The fact that there are no wrongful death lawsuits and no other criminal charges MIGHT BE a decent indication that nobody in the car (three other people) or the family of the one person who died...you know...might NOT think that Rueben did anything wrong.
But, yeah, some Gator alum Herald writer can spin a few context-less facts (and I'm not disputing the underlying truth of what he wrote) into something that sounds much more sinister in its implications.