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Talbot: Bethel should have gotten same punishment as FSU's Johnson

Nigel Bethel II got off easy.

He was provoked by a woman and struck back.

Florida State quarterback De’Andre Johnson did the same.

But, it cost him his spot on the team.

Johnson, a redshirt freshman from Jacksonville, was dismissed from FSU’s team by coach Jimbo Fisher on Monday night, hours after the Florida state attorney’s office released surveillance video of him striking a 21-year-old woman in a Tallahassee bar on June 24.

Bethel, meanwhile, is still playing for Texas Tech and figures to be instrumental in the Red Raiders’ secondary in the fall.