BBall-Football Kerfluffle

When I woke up in the morning and saw on The Big Lead that the basketball team and football teams had fought with eachother, the first words out of my mouth were "oh fuck."

Then I read some dumb stuff. Jason Whitlock of the KC Star talked about the influence of rap music on the fight, saying that Tyshawn Taylor behaved like a gang member because of it. Please. Saying this stuff is like saying that Columbine got shot up cause of Marilyn Manson.

Whitlock also cited lyrics T2 put on his Facebook page prior to the brawl. Every person I know has had music lyrics as his or her Facebook status at one point. Just because these kids listen to Lil Wayne or 50 Cent doesn't mean that they should be the scapegoat when something like this happens.

As to who was truly at fault? Who knows. I sure don't know, and I doubt I will ever know. The job that Mark Mangino has done on campus the past few years has been amazing. He has turned basically a 1-AA team into one of the best teams in the country. But, as much as I love him and Dezmon Briscoe, the basketball team is what made me a KU fan in the first place, so if Briscoe has to be suspended, or hell even kicked off the team, to appease Bill Self, so be it.

Fortunately for everyone involved, it seems that the three men leading the programs (Mangino, Self, AD Lew Perkins) are much more mature than the kids they look after.