Out of whack

It's a wonderful lesson that the University of Oregon is sending by reinstating LaGarrette Blount to the football team.
He's the one who sucker-punched a player from Boise State – on national TV, no less – earlier in the season and was suspended from the team for the rest of the season.
Or so we thought.
He may be a talented football player – obviously the school and the coaches think so. But at some point, this young man has to take some responsibility for his actions. Sucker-punching someone in the face may not amount to a legal definition of an assault, but it amounts to anyone's definition of a pampered college athlete run amok.
The fact that Oregon has a chance for a bowl game – and the money that goes with it – shouldn't get in the way of using common sense with this kid (namely keeping him out of the lineup for the rest of the year).
But when the bills are as green as the school colors, all hope of common sense is out the window.