Bad behavior leads to more bad behavior and so on

Agree completely.  I do take a bit of issue with the doxing piece of this issue.  It was a terrible, vile message that was sent to that player.  That can never happen.  However, the mother doxing this guy is also terrible.  In doing so, she has ruined his career (at least in the short-term), damaged the business that was not owned by him, and significantly effected the lives of his wife and kids that had nothing to do with all of this.

I’m disappointed that when Fox 13 reached out to Field’s mother, her only comment was, “I hope he is held accountable.”  I’d say he is being punished pretty severely.  It’s a sad situation all-around.

Totally agree. both the ASU player and the dentist made a mistake and I’m sure both feel really bad about it ( especially the dentist). Move on.

It’s amazing both these individuals were both thrown to the wolves for one stupid incident – yet we tie ourselves in pretzels trying to defend politicians and presidents for chronic poor behavior on twitter and personal actions.

From what I can tell, the ASU player has no history of cheap shots and the both the Utefan has no other over the line tweets.  Again, move on. 

The intentional one was on Enis and it was flagged and negated pretty much the best play ASU had outside of late runs by EB.

The hit on Moss is a bang bang play. But it was also intentional because he lowered his face mask and made no attempt to hit how they train kids. Somewhere along the line of his career he was taught to hit that way or practiced that. During a game you don’t rise to a new level you fall to the level of your training. He was flagged and ejected. That is the correct course of action and it is the only one inside the rule book. If he gets more during the season he may face additional consequences.

Comparing targets let’s look at two Utah has suffered.
The one Umana was linemen clear out that they are trying to get rid of. Umana lowers his helmet to look down at the pile and unintentionally hits a OSU player in the helmet. Flagged he is ejected. Good call and right call. Utah trains lineman to come in like that and be violent when their guy is on the bottom of a pile.  

The other was in the endzone I believe  I forget what game.  I believe they punted the ball away but then evaluated it after Covey received the ball. It looked like a perfect form tackle to me.  I believe it was on Fotu?  But he lowers his face mask and it is target.  

if I’m being honest, I’ve been tempted several times to attack someone personally on social media.  Fortunately, I’ve always refrained, but I’ve wanted to.  Whether its sports, religion or politics its too easy to get worked up about nearly anything, and social media has made it easier and easier to communicate directly.   

I think most of us were livid at that player for ASU, it certianly appeared to be a cheap shot, and the way he acted afterward added fuel to the fire.  He easily could have ended Moss’s year or career, but to be fair only he (the ASU player) knows his intent with that hit.  

I hope all parties can forgive each other, and this can be a learning opportunity for the player, his mom and the twitter offender and they can all be better people for it after going through this.  

Agree. The fact is these 20 year olds are taught to play fast, play violent, be the hammer not the nail, play low to the ground, and in a split second decision of both players getting lower, s**t happens. Sometimes the only way to learn is from making a mistake. I don’t know the history of Fields but have heard ZERO about past instances of head hitting or targeting, so time to move on. Got Utes!

The lesson all of us should learn is this: Teach your kids to never post anything online that might somehow be construed as wrong, inappropriate, or reflect negatively on you now or in the future. I know people who haven’t gotten jobs because they posted a drunken selfie on Facebook 15 years ago. Do I agree with it? No. But that’s the reality of the world we live in.

As such, I tell my kids to never post anything that’s not nice about anyone, anything negative in general, anything that involves behavior someone might consider wrong, and nothing that reveals political beliefs. It sucks but I believe that it will serve them well in the future.

The kid made a big enough ass out of himself by the way he left the field.  He is just a kid though.  I’m sure he’s totally embarrassed by what he did and that should be enough.  Hopefully he was able to watch his team get there asses handed to them in the locker room.