About a year ago, with Duke legend Mike Krzyzewski about to ride off into the sunset, I wrote a column wondering who would become college basketball's next great villain. Such a figure would need to combine arrogance with victory, infusing a talented team with an infuriating they-hate-us-'cause-they-ain't-us attitude.
. It is, at this writing, the strongest action Alabama has publicly taken regarding Miller.
This is indifference in the face of a tragedy. Miller’s pregame stunt was small but emblematic of a much larger problem. Nothing that Alabama as an institution has done publicly suggests that it’s any more focused on the gravity of the situation than Miller himself. Miller has rights, like the presumption of innocence and the right to privacy, and if Tuscaloosa law enforcement didn’t see fit to arrest or charge him, it’s not the place of the Tide’s critics to step in and play judge, jury or district attorney. Bad decisions aren’t necessarily criminal ones, and second-guessing Tuscaloosa law enforcement without all the facts is both pointless and counterproductive.
Alabama has had the opportunity for weeks now to sit Miller as punishment for his galactically bad judgment. Instead, it’s chosen to keep Miller on the team, in the lineup, at the top of the box score. The overall look here is that Alabama is doing all it can to protect its once-in-a-generation basketball run, whatever the short-term public relations cost.
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