Can you please not compare Miami and UF on terms like this? UM has this ridiculous brand of Thug U, meanwhile the Gators rack up arrests like they’re touchdowns. When a Miami team based on Randy Shannon’s virtues and standards visits Urban Meyer’s successful but delinquent Gators, there will be much different underneath the jerseys.

Wow, I don’t know where to begin with this line of reasoning.

Driving is a legal activity. So is owning and discharging a firearm (it was not an AK). However, there are things you can do with both of them that make them illegal. That’s how society works. DUI homicides are not just car accidents, which yes, people who are sober die from as well. There is a good reason you get sent to prison for killing someone while DUI, and don’t for just a regular car accident.

Just because you can “accidentally” have a DUI because you “misjudge” how much you drink does not make it any less illegal or dangerous. If you choose to drink and then get behind the wheel, you are endangering others, and you are engaging in an activity that has killed thousands of people.

Whether you meant to do it becomes irrelevant at that point. It goes from a misdemeanor DUI to vehicular homicide, for the very same act. Same would have been true if Wilson’s firing into the air actually had hurt or killed someone. Like someone convicted of vehicular homicide, he could say he didn’t intend to kill anyone and that would be true, but he’ll still be punished accordingly. And statistically, tens of thousands more people have died from DUI than from firing a gun into the air. So while you can write all you want that firing the gun was “worse”, that won’t make it true. The only measure of “worse” is the injuries and deaths to others from the activity.

The program is a thug program- it started with Urban. Shame…It won best party school from the Princeton Review…Where did the days of going after the public-ivy go?

When Miami and UF play this year- only the uniform will show them being different….UF has become FSU. Nice.

You can scream it over and over again – but thats not how we decide whats worse. If we went by your idea, then athletes shouldn’t drive cars at all, because more people die in sober crashes than dui crashes or random gunfire. Let me fix what you said:

“Driving sober kill thousands of more people every single year. This is without question. So there’s no question which act endangers others more – driving sober.”

Using your logic, driving sober is the worst thing we can do. But we’re not all dumb like that.

The point you keep ignoring, that everyone else on this site understands, is that it was a MUCH POORER display of judgement. To get a dui, you could have had 4 (or was it 3? or 5?) drinks in 3 (or was it 2? or 4?) hours, and sometimes people “misjudge” whether they are at a .07 (you’re fine!) or a .09 (you evil bastard!), or if the law is .10, then .11, or .09, etc. This is not saying DUI is “great” – but rational people understand how easily this misjudgement can be made.

Now, there is NEVER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE WHERE YOU CAN PULL OUT YOUR AK IN A CITY, and then FIRE IT INTO THE AIR. NONE. There is no room for “slight misjudgement” there. It was complete jackassery.

Someone could “think” they were fine to drive a car, but it turns out it was wrong. They misjudged. Tell me when you can “think” you’re ok to pull out an assault rifle in a city and fire it into the air. Go ahead. Please. Explain it to us slow people.

If your point was to prove you can be the most irrational here, congratulations:

Mission accomplished.

DUI’s aren’t always a “no”?

Who’s ignored it? Not I. Just pointed out the over-the-top moral outrage here from the same people who willingly accept people who have been convicted of DUI back on their teams. Yes, what Wilson did was wrong, no question. But is Meyer “slime” for giving him a second chance? No.

Drinking is legal in cities in this country.

So what. Firing a gun, in many cases, is legal as well. Just not this one, which is fine. He was charged and arrested for it. Not disputing that at all.

To compare it to a DUI is asinine.

Not at all. Both acts endanger others? Check. Both acts were a result of poor judgment? Check. Both acts misdemeanors? Check.

The only difference is as previously noted, more people drive drunk, so therefore (to them) this act is somehow more “outrageous”. HOWEVER, it is no less dangerous. DUI’s kill thousands of more people every single year. This is without question. So there’s no question which act endangers others more – DUI.

I live in Florida and own six firearms.

Drinking is legal in cities in this country. It is possible to misjudge how many drinks you’ve had and if you’re “over” or “under” a limit – especially when the activity impairs the exact judgement you need to make the determination. People make mistakes in judgement.

On the other hand, it seems kind of hard to “misjudge” whether or not you should be pulling out your gat and firing it into the air in a city after leaving the bar. This isn’t one of those things where “you might be fine.” Its always a no. To compare it to a DUI is asinine.

Just sayin.

Otherwise, I’m fine with it. “Da U” is a little harsh, Mr. Swindle.

Thanks for a great article and comment-brush-fire.

The lack of indignation over players being charged with DUIs is in no way a reason to ignore the bad actions of Ronnie Wilson. Whether or not it is hypocritical (on the part of the coaches, the university, the fans, etc.) is another matter completely. If both are offenses that merit dismissal, Wilson doesn’t deserve a pass just because the drunk guys got one. You should be happy UF got it half right and hope they figure out how to handle DUIs in the future.

For what it’s worth, I suspect people don’t get bent out of shape over a DUI is because they are so commonplace. Things that we do are not nearly as outrageous as things that others do.