Too often, college football forces us to distinguish between two different sets of values. There are real-life, moral convictions, and then there is an altogether different scale of football justice. We see the distinction every season, when a favored player runs afoul of the law or a winning coach looks the other way when a problem arises in his program, then no one is punished adequately, even if everyone involved comes away with a sour taste in their mouths.
It’s rare when a decision goes against both value systems. On Tuesday, Maryland achieved that ignominious distinction.
Five months and one day after Jordan McNair collapsed at a Maryland football practice, D.