All Apologies

I'm sorry.  I apologize.  I hope you can forgive me.

Over the past couple of days we have heard both Terrelle Pryor and Lebron James offer up apologies for their words and actions.  And while they both seemed to be sincere the question is do we really care?

Pryor apologized to OSU and it's fans but mostly to Jim Tressel, the coach and mentor whose job was lost due in part to Pryor's activities.  I don't know Pryor but I do believe that he is truly sorry and he probably did owe Tressel an apology.  But where is the public apology that Tressel owes Pryor?  The apology for not being a good enough father figure to Pryor.  For not stressing right and wrong not only to Pryor but to many of his players.  For enabling them to commit such acts that the University is in a PR mess.  For "protecting" the players when really he was protecting the preseason #1 ranking and chance at a national title that would have gone away had he reported the violations.  We always want to hear from the players when violations occur and we want them to be remorseful.  We rarely bat an eye at the coaches who are either ignorant or apathetic to the actions of the players off the field as long as they help them to victories on it.  Players are held accountable and called bad kids, coaches are held accountable and are paid millions to go away or in the case of Pete Carroll at USC you take a better paying NFL job before the shit hits the fan.  How is this fair?


And Lebron or is it King James or as many are now calling you Mr. I play 3/4 of a game!  While your apology was the right thing to do no one actually believes you.  What they do believe is what you said that required you to apologize in the first place.  You are right, at the end of the day all the haters who were happy you and your team lost will still have to go back to their lives.  And you will continue to live your life and do the things that you want to do.  And they do believe that you think you are better than them and frankly, you do.  It's okay to feel that way, part of your success comes from you feeling that way.  Part of your shortcomings come from it too my friend.  Instead of reminding the public you are better than them you should consider using that energy in the gym.  Work on a post game, a mid range jump shot, moving without the basketball, and late game free throw shooting.  That way they will know that you are at least a better basketball player than them, and maybe just maybe you'll prove you are a better clutch player than DeShawn Stevenson too.