I’ll give former OU Sooner offensive lineman JD Quinn credit for having guts to speak his mind, and he is totally correct. Quinn was the less famous of the dynamic duo who got kicked off the OU football team before last fall’s season (the famous being then-starter Rhett Bomar). Quinn brings up a good point, and that’s that if you consider all of the things he could have done, taking money for a job he did not do was probably better than smoking crack, fixing games, getting DUI’s or beating up kids in the dorm.

“All I did was take cash,” Quinn said. “I didn’t break any laws and I get kicked off the team, but there’s people on the team that are breaking laws and failing drug tests and stuff like that, and there’s nobody getting kicked off the team for that type of stuff.”

So although I’ve got the world’s smallest violin playing for JD right now, I will give him a lot of credit for pointing out the hypocrisy in a system which gives second chances to law breakers, but take cash and you are done. So JD is right, law breakers should be kicked off just as quickly as those who violate NCAA rules, because if you ever wondered where pro football players got the idea that breaking the law was okay… I’m guessing it may have been one of the only things they actually learned while in college.

• Ex-OU lineman critical of dismissal from team (AP)