SEC Media Days Reveals a Stink in Death Valley

Throwing you a bender because I just thought you should know...

With the SEC football conference holding its' media days this week, I thought I would take a look deeper into the teams that may challenge the Buckeyes for national supremacy this coming season. Well, let's throw that out the window because has anyone noticed what is going on at LSU?

The Tigers of Louisiana State University are touting a star running back for this upcoming season named Jeremy Hill. He played for LSU last season, running for 755 yards and 12 touchdowns as a true freshman -- with 684 yards and 10 touchdowns coming in the final seven games. Sounds like a rising star, a player to pin hopes on and carry the Tigers and Coach Les Miles to championships.

Except Hill is a violent predator and a repeat offender at that. He has multiple convictions, is only 20 years old, is on the football team and receiving a full scholarship at a major university and has something wrong with him. However, it appears as if Coach Miles and LSU have something much more wrong with themselves.

Over 90,000 Tiger faithful gather on game days to cheer Hill on. Les Miles ensures Hill is on the field and ready to play. Les Miles makes sure that Hill provides a piece of the puzzle that goes towards winning which enables Miles to earn $4.3 million per season. However, Hill will soon be facing another judge (an LSU graduate) who has the capability of making the path harder for Hill and Miles.

When Hill was a football star and senior in high school, he pleaded guilty to having "carnal knowledge" of an underage girl. He was 18 and Baton Rouge authorities say Hill and another 18 year old pressured a 14 year old girl to perform a sex act in their high school locker room. This (the football star part) prompted Les Miles to come around and offer Hill a scholarship. He put Hill on the field as a freshman and hoped he was good, knew he was good, watched him be good....but sure didn't care that he was bad.

The season ended and as Hill had some spare time, he now decided to add to his criminal resume by attacking an LSU student this past April. It was labeled in the press as a "bar fight" however I challenge anyone who Googles the video of this total sucker punch to label this as a bar fight. Hill pleaded guilty again, this time to "simple battery" which I am sure the victim would agree is not actually justice.

Hill had a friend with him that night also and just as before, the friend followed Hill's lead and duplicated the same criminal act. This time it left the victim down and temporarily unconscious. So now Coach Miles comes rushing in to level penalties. That is what a good leader of young men, a state employee and a role model as a football coach should do, right? Miles makes the mighty decision to suspend Hill immediately and indefinitely, you know, for all the games LSU plays in April, May, June and July....which adds up to zero.

Which brings us to Jeremy Hill pleading guilty in a court of law to a predatory attack for the second time in 15 months. This time, he receives a suspended jail sentence and two years of probation. He reports weekly to a probation officer and now has a nightly curfew. No comment is coming from Miles or LSU this week, during SEC Media Days, because the legal process is not completed.

Not completed? Now Hill and Miles are waiting for an August 16th hearing back in court where a judge will review and determine if his latest attack has violated the probation conditions on his previous attack. Is it even possible that it did not?

Since both attacks happened in Louisiana, all court proceedings take place in Louisiana. See where this is heading? Hill never received jail time for either attack and the judge who issued the nightly curfew also added a loophole so Hill can attend "night time LSU football related activities" past his bed time, which means he can play on Saturday night games. That honorable judge happens to be a 1976 graduate of LSU.

But this could all change in August when a judge reviews the cases and can send Hill directly to jail. So Jeremy Hill, who used his status and size to commit two attacks and receive minimal consequences, will face this judge as she determines what consequences to administer this time. And this judge should be quite familiar with Jeremy Hill and his actions as she is the same judge who did not sentence him to jail when he had his way with a 14 year old girl and was a top LSU recruit. You might not believe this, but she graduated law school in 1978 from.....do I really need to finish this sentence?

And Coach Les Miles is banking on this. He is not being proactive and releasing a predator and a coward from his football team. LSU is also hiding behind the premise of the legal system playing itself out. Either Miles or LSU could stand up now and declare Hill will never play another down for LSU, and this would not take a court order or judge to be put into immediate effect. Instead, they are both attending the SEC Media Days and waiting. Miles is probably hoping the LSU Law School graduate, now presiding as judge, does not send his stud running back to prison. You see, if an honorable judge within the great State of Lousiana declares it is ok for such a crummy human being to be out on the streets, then who is Les Miles to say he can't be on a football field?

Geaux, Tigers.

All this because I know more about nothing...