Where are they now Jonathan Hargett edition

NY Times has a great story on Jonathan Hargett.
He's ending a five-year prison stint in Virginia.
Sad story for Hargett.

The story should also be an eye-opener to the sleazy "prep" school operations. Jesus.

He also alleges he was paid $20K to play at WVU.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/sports/basketball/basketball-star-jonathon-hargetts-story-is-a-cautionary-tale.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&smid=fb-share

 

Unfortunately, all these stories read the same after a while.

 

As an oh BTW.. WVU fans are harassing the shit out of Thamel on Twitter.

Stay Classy Mo'Town fans!

 

That was a really great story. Is it Pete Thamel's last for The New York Times?

Reminded me of another recent Sunday Times feature, on Lenny Cooke, by Harvey Araton: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/sports/basketball/lenny-cooke-star-to-be-who-never-was.html?pagewanted=all

 

I found the quote on "he's a victim" to be rather ridiculous.

Really? Kid doesn't tell any agent "no", accepts money from agents, uses that money on sneakers instead of paying his mother's utility bill, can't keep his pants on and impregnates not one, but two women, does drugs, makes thousands of bucks dealing drugs until he ends up getting shot, and instead of working hard in school and on the court, decides to "listen to the streets".

It's not an "American tragedy" as the one coach put it. It's a lack of personal responsiblity that only now, once his prison sentence is up, that he seems willing to accept.

 

"Tragedy" doesn't mean "accident."

 

It means, IMO, something awful that happens to somebody that they could not have knowingly foreseen or prevented.

Crossing the street and getting run over when a car doing 80 runs a red light is a tragedy.

Running that red light and dying when you crash into a telephone pole is not a tragedy. If the pole falls and kills someone else, that's a tragedy.

 

I remember Jonathan as a youngster. I covered his brother Mike who was a great kid.

 

Then your definition of tragedy fails to match the actual definition of tragedy. That's not Pete Thamel's fault.

 

Foreseeable? Yes. Preventable? Doubtful, but he had the opportunity to succeed in life just not the ability to do so.

 

Foreseeable? Preventable? What kind of world do you live in? This kid had strikes against him that you may never experience or even know how to handle. Life is unpredictable. Don't ever think that you have everything figured out because you don't.