UK Football coach does the right thing

I played organized sports for a long time. I played football in college, worked in a NCAA, D-1 athletic department and I have been a high school athletic director. Athletics have been a part of my life for a long time and probably will be for the rest of my life. through athletics I have learned life lessons, good and bad. Some of the best moments of my life are athletics related moments. I have also been given perks I didn't deserve that made my life easy at times when it should have been harder. I have seen jocks (including myself) get away with all sort of things simply because of the fact that they were a jock. There are few things that can repair a spoiled athlete's ego that is reinforced for years living in a jock culture. Mine was shattered through a series of events and decisions that lead me to the realization that my "life skills" were woefully underdeveloped because of privileges I was given that I took for granted. Athletics are valuable and teach things that no other activity can, but somewhere along the line we have allowed sports to dominate instead of enhance our culture. Our athletes are held to a different lower standard in society because of it.
When a coach does the right thing as The University of Kentucky's Rich Brooks has finally done, letting his heavily recruited, talented and misguided starting QB go after the abuse of privileges he was granted caught up with him it is an exceptional act. Brooks could have done what many (dare I say most) coaches would have done and found a way to make this issue go away for the sake of maybe winning a game or two. But he did not do that. He went against what would have been perfectly acceptable within athletic culture and dismissed a talented prospect. Hopefully this is the wake up for Curtis Pulley that will allow him to see the big picture. Bravo coach Brooks.