Actually I thought you said if you are arrested you’re off the team.
My friend and I were leaving the Sacramento Airport in the early 80s. The cops swooped on him and arrested him.
He and I were peace officers coming to Sac to do some training.
He was released a few hours later when it was discovered he look liked a suspect wanted by the Oakland PD and the cips were told he was on the flught we took.
Anytime someone is “punished” for being arrested, I hesitate a little before I agree.
In your follow-up you said the circumstances in which he was arrested. I can agree that a college or team could have rules that you should avoid certain circumstances. For instance everyone at the party is doing drugs, well, get out as soon as you realize.
I worked with a guy of the negroid persuasion when I went to work in prison. He remained in the old neighborhood in which he grew up on the cusp between Willowbrook and Compton in LA. His mom and aunt lived in the same house and he wanted to be near the family.
He was constantly detained and arrested a couple of times for being outside while black, usually walking home ater organizing sports for the neighborhood kids. He missed work one day and his wife said he was in jail. Actually he was in a detention cell at the nearby precinct. The phone call inquiry from our superintendent got him out.
I hope you would not impose morals charges against him and fire him.
They have used some common sense in enforcement. We had special teams guy (Jarrod Cooper) good player, got arrested for DUI, and they found painkillers in the car. He said he was innocent, and the team took no action pending the trial.
Of course 2 weeks later he was pulled over again, and this time they found pot in the car, so he was gone after that.
I understand your point, but I don’t have an issue with the Patriots releasing him. Hernandez is free to pursue a career with any other team that wants him, apparently no strings attached.
He can still practice his livelihood, that is, if any team takes him up on it.
Not in his case but I would if he was one of my pro football players who is an ambassador of my team and subject to my "zero tolerance" rules.
I don't want to have to spend the next six months to forever trying to explain to the press why I kept him on the team.
It's his problem, not mine. Once he gets it straightened out then he can come back........Pretty simple really.