1. The coaches should get chaperones for the players so they stay out of trouble.
2. Sally should personally talk with each and every player about drinking.
Football players or not, these are still college students and they are going to go out evenings. Parties are the number one entertainment whether you or anyone else likes it and beverages are served at these parties (beer and usually lots of it). Nothing has changed since any of us has gone to college or before us. And many who have not gone to college do the same thing...drinking is a major pastine for young folks. Always has and always will be. It is never going to change, especially in a college atmosphere. No matter how many laws are passed, bars are closed to people under 21, whatever, drinking still be the number one pastime...parties. If they can't go into bars and dance, the scene just moves to private parties outside of downtown.
The city council did everyone a favor passing the new law keeping kids out of bars so they couldn't drink. Did they think the kids would just quit drinking? Instead of kids walking back to dorms when they are drunk, they now have to drive to get home. Or they get into their car, get a case of beer and drive around out in the country drinking the beer. Some things never change. Just more of them get picked up now.
Some say, 21 is 21...and that is the law. How many of you drank under age and ignored the law. Same thing, some thngs don't change. Should they be driving and drinking...no. Will they...yes. The age limit should just be lowered to 18 and be done with.
What else are they going to do when they go out? Have drum parties, play cards for toothpicks and drink sodas at the local church? Go downtown to the rec center and play pool? Go to a movie and go back to their apartment/dorm? Parties have been the norm for decades and decades and decades. That is where men and women get together and when they do, beer and music (and probably weed in many cases) are involved. That is a simple fact.
Some are going to go to parties and some are going to drink. If they drink and drive in Iowa City these days they risk getting picked up. Hell, in Iowa City if you are walking around drunk you will get picked up...that's Iowa City whether we like it or not.
Good judgement? He was out having fun. He got picked up, now he has to pay the price. It is expensive to get picked up for drunk driving. He should have taken a taxi. He knew the risks.
Personally, I am more disappointed that he was driving while drinking than the fact he was out partying. When drinking and we all know this, your judgement gets clouded. Too bad a friend or two didn't call a cab for him. The drinking while driving is the only part that was bad because that was dangerous to himself and to others. Football is secondary compared to that.
A one game suspension should be enough because what KF puts him will be tougher.