[patteeu]

Garry Pinkel did the wrong thing by "supporting his players" in this ridiculous drama. The right thing to do as a coach or as a "father" of these young men would have been to teach them how to behave like civilized men instead of getting involved in this infantile tantrum poorly disguised as a protest, or at the very least to have refused to get involved.

In his press conference, Pinkel tried to distance himself from the protest by saying he was just supporting his kids like a "father" would without really even considering the protest's demands, but that's impossible to do, IMO. He had to know that he was throwing the University president, if not the reputation of the entire university, under the bus and he couldn't have really believed that he had to act, in this way, at this time, to save Jonathan Butler's life.

Terrible.