To those calling the guy, who made a poor choice in life, pathetic. You can please rescind your fan card because you're not welcome as fans. Most of us, have been there, he's in college. He's about to turn 21. A lot of us had that stage in life when we were on then fringe of turning 21. Am I condoning what he did? No, very bad decision on his end that could've ended much worse. But no reason to call the guy pathetic over an isolated poor choice. It's not like he's a Louisville player with an extensive history of these things, in which those UL fans would probably be making a player like that to be a saint if that were only his 6th incident in life. You get unlimited chances at UL. He made a bad choice, he's going to (hopefully) learn his lesson. He's going to be on a short lease for awhile. But let's not make this young man to be something worse than he is when many of us have been in that spot in life. No not laying in the middle of the road passed out drunk. But most of us have experienced a drinking incident in which we are not proud of. I for one am happy to have this young man representing our university even though he made a poor choice and in doing so made the program as a whole look bad. But let's not act like this is a guy with an extensive history like every UL football and basketball player/recruit that they worship. It's an isolated incident that could've turned out much worse, I agree. But it's an isolated incident none the less and it needs to be treated as such.
He needs to get punished, nothing ridiculously severe but more than a slap on the wrist for sure. I've seen UK players do much crazier and not get caught. Players UK fans look up to as role models and legends. Only difference is Derrick got caught up and they didn't. Not justifying it but by calling this guy pathetic over an isolated incident isn't right because had it been the players I'm speaking of you all wouldn't call them pathetic considering all the good they have done over the years. He's young. He made a terrible choice. Worthy of a suspension after seeing the video before hand just because it was a PI I didn't think it was worthy of suspension at first maybe a ton of running til he throws up or something but this looks worse than I originally thought and is definitely worthy of a suspension but it's not worthy of getting kicked off the team and severely damaging the kids life. At the same time I'm confident Derrick gets it together and doesn't make the same mistake twice. And im certain from this point forward he will make the university proud on and off the court. Isolated incidents in which that aren't felonies should never define a person's character. And I'm not going to judge the young man based on this terrible decision. I'm confident he puts it in the rear view and am proud to have him represent the university. Even though he made a terrible choice. Get it together Derrick!!! We need you!!!
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