Go back and read this entire saga...is it really THAT surprising? MoC and normal logic have never met...
Yes it really is.
The kid has done a LOT of stupid, immature & selfish things...but they are all several steps removed from committing a felony, in front of witnesses, in the one city in the world (outside of Youngstown) where everybody knows his face.
If he did do it, he'll be arrested, tried & convicted. There's pretty much no doubt about that given the circumstances.
Could I see it happening because he felt desperate and didn't know what else to do? Possibly. Is it even more likely that he and some homies were chillin and thought it might be something amusing to do (no doubt with a little help from a bit of mind altering goodness)? IMO Yep.
Could I just as easily see a bar owner looking for a bit of publicity or with the misguided notion that it would be a good way to either help/hurt the University? Yep.
However, if I woke up tomorrow and the news said that Clarett had mutated into a 40 ft subhuman and was destroying downtown Columbus and eating people I have no doubt this board would be full of wise sages putting in their .02..."I'm not surprised at all"..."I could see this coming all along"...."I said from day one this kid was gonna turn into a monster!".
I just don't have the emotional investment in the entire Clarett debacle that I automatically assume every negative story about him is true because it helps salve my hurt feelings.
Is Clarrett a dipshit? Damn straight he is. I just don't feel any need to turn him into the Bogeyman to make me feel better.
The kid's probably going to be in jail tonight and we'll see how it all shakes out over the next couple of days.
PS - Personally I think it's just a set-up perpetrated by ESPN in order to divert the growing attention away from the obviously renegade program at USC and it's criminal recruiting mastermind Pappadakis.