I think the main keyword in the discussion so far is “ignorance”. He did not anticipate the full impact his actions. Unfortunately there are many more that will be making the same mistake.

It will be interesting to see if Mr. Jobe is picked-up by another football program.

I think that as a society we’re sliding down a slippery slope if we use our increased knowledge of people’s activities through social media as a reason to punish them. I know that at 18 I engaged in a lot of behaviors that if caught on tape or posted on a social network would be considered questionable at best. Why do we punish young people for these lapses in judgment, rather than using them as opportunities for learning? If we’re educators, that’s what we should be doing, not judging kids for making bad decisions. The last I heard, poor judgment is part of being an adolescent. Our role as adults is to help kids learn from those instances.

I also wonder if the response would have been the same if Josh was white. I am white, married to a black man with a son and I can tell you that I routinely see the double standards that apply to my stepson, compared to my white middle class daughters. Like Gary, I think the NCAA plantation system is the issue we should be worrying about, not the rap.

Really, does this mean that this young man will now be deprived of an education as well?

If so, what a great solution for curing ignorance.

After all, the tastes of OU fans is really what is at stake here. Not the First Amendment. Not the right to an education.

I don’t understand what the broken window metaphor has to do with this issue.

I do know that colleges exploit young men like the one in question for their entertainment and fundraising value, often with little more than starvation, ignorance and broken bodies as compensation. Now the same enterprise exploits the young man by parading its moral rectitude in public at the STUDENT’S expense. The stench of hypocrisy is too much to stand.

It is this NCAA plantation system we should be upset about, not a rap, even if I have serious misgivings about that form of expression.