August 11th, 2006 by Lee Gibbons
Am I Supposed to Feel Sorry for Maurice Clarett?
Maurice Clarett was arrested on Wednesday carrying a bucket full of loaded weapons, wearing a bullet proof vest and getting liquored up. Now I’ll admit I’m from Canada and we’re kinda wimpy when it comes to guns and stuff, but I’m pretty sure that’s kinda dangerous. Who the hell knows what he was about to do and what exactly his intentions were, but I do know that its pretty likely he wasn’t going to sing lullabies to his daughter. Yet for some odd reason, the media has decided to portray Clarett as a sympathetic figure.
To paraphrase the great Vince McMahon: “Maurice Clarett screwed Maurice Clarett.” He was the guy who decided to risk his football career by challenging the NFL draft policy. Sucks to him for losing that battle, but no one forced him to do it. No one made him borrow money from whoever was financing him while he was away from football that year. He was the one who decided to live large instead of waiting for his pay day. He was the guy who showed up to the combine out of shape and slower than half the offensive lineman.
Maybe if he would have won his draft challenge and been able to enter the NFL after his freshman year everything would have turned out roses for the guy. But he was given a 2nd chance and he blew it. The guy who’d always had everything handed to him couldn’t handle failure and his downward spiral began.
I feel sorry for the witness who’s house Clarett was allegedly near when he was arrested. I feel sorry for Jim Tressel and everyone else who tried to reach out to the guy even after he screwed them all over after leaving school. I feel sorry for Clarett’s daughter who will have to grow up with her father behind bars. But I sure as heck don’t feel sorry for Maurice Clarett. He screwed up and now he has to deal with the consequences. Every criminal has a story or excuse as to how the system screwed them over. It time to realize what Clarett has become, just another criminal.
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