Is This Common?

Flying Headbutt · Sep 8, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701712.html

They have decided, as a team, that Pat Lazear's troubles no longer exist. He and four friends were never arrested for the robbery of a Bethesda smoothie shop. Police never charged Lazear with two felonies. The Montgomery County school system never forced him to transfer from Whitman High School before his senior year.

None of the incidents is relevant to Lazear's new football teammates at Wheaton High School, so they've instituted a simple rule: Treat Lazear as if his life began Aug. 15, when the All-Met linebacker arrived at Wheaton's practice field and revived the school's football team.

More than five months after he allegedly drove the getaway car in a felony robbery and three months after Whitman forced him to finish his junior year at home, Lazear, 17, has reclaimed his place in football's hierarchy. More than 20 Division I colleges have offered Lazear scholarships, and he will likely choose between Alabama and Ohio State.

I've pretty much not covered any preps before. Is this a bit unusual? The county this is happening in is very wealthy and very liberal. But it just seems odd to me.

GB-Hack · Sep 8, 2006

I don't have that much experience in this, but It certainly wouldn't shock me. Look at Willie Williams and everything that happened before he flamed out at Miami. If the kids got D-1 talent, or can take Podunnk high to state, people will make allowances for close to anything.

What then happens is he gets out into the world, he does even more stupid junk, he gets dismissed from the team with the coach washing his hands of the whole affair.