Drinking in college happens. If there is a time and place to drink it is in college. Maybe you remember what that period of your life was like. People threw parties at their houses and all their friends came, whether they were of age or not. Lets not pretend that the only people drinking at a university are those 21 and older. The UofO frisbee team just got caught. Which is a risk they took while throwing the party, but there were probably 50 other parties taking place that same night in Eugene, all of which provided alcohol to kids between 18 and 20 years of age, and many of which were hosted by college affiliated fraternities and sororities.

The speeding tickets are a problem, but should not be held against the team. If Ego’s travel plans are anything like other club sports, they are probably leaving Eugene at 5pm on Friday to drive their own personal vehicles to Stanford, Vancouver BC, Chico, Humboldt, Vegas, San Diego… in order to get up at 6:30-7am the next morning to get ready to play and intense sport for 10hrs. And since when does a few students in a personal vehicle represent their school?

The other offense this year is that regarding the nudity. There could be worse things that they did then try and have fun while playing the sport they love. The game wasn’t an important one, they had won their pool and had to finish the day by playing their B-team. Nudity doesn’t hurt anyone, and if you are so offended by it, you could always turn away or leave, or close the blinds to your dorm window. Didn’t Eugene recently rule that nudity was okay as long as it represented a cause?

By the way the article was written up, it sounds as if Dusty didn’t help his cause. “Speeding, drinking, nudity – they’re not bad things,…They’re things a big portion of the community doesn’t think are wrong.” Although not necessarily correct he isn’t necessarily wrong. Most people speed by 5-10mph while driving and a large portion of those of age or in college do drink. These are not abnormalities in our society or among college athletes of any sport. Nudity is not uncommon in our society either, it is just such a faux-pas that most people choose to ignore it. Maybe it isn’t right, but it is mostly harmless.

I don’t think Ego is without blame in this, and I definitely think they should have played it a little cooler, especially since the team was on probation already, but I don’t believe that they deserved to have their season ended right before the biggest tournament of the year for them. Imagine if USC wasn’t allowed to play in the Rose Bowl because of a few traffic infractions leading up to the game or UNC wasn’t allowed to play in the NCAA’s because a few of them were caught drinking in public. That is essentially what this breaks down too.