Of all the things I didn’t expect to read on Thursday, a new embarrassment for LSU and head coach Les Miles involving a member of the Jefferson Family would have been at the top of my list. To make matters worse a Bleacher report article asserts that Coach Miles knew of Rickey Jackson having “off-field problems”.

Les, c’mon man. When you Google “jefferson arrested” you get 386,000 results, lol… I think the word “thugs” is in order here, I don’t care what the hell Jarvis DeBerry of Nola.com thinks. What was at the center of the controversy when the younger brother of LSU disaster Jordan Jefferson got busted? A narcotics investigation, what else?

One of Rickey Jackson’s thug buddies was interfering with one, cursed the officer after being warned multiple times, then was “almost” handcuffed. Why “almost”? Because the younger Jefferson boy and his other thug buddy started punching the officer multiple times according to the police report.

The officer had to chase the first thug back down to get the cuffs on him. Oddly the initial reports don’t reveal if Jefferson was charged with a felony, but “resisting arrest with violence” certainly sounds like one. The kicker? The kid didn’t even have the common sense or courtesy to tell coach Miles he had been busted before he was signed by LSU, thereby giving Les Miles another black eye.

The solution? Hell, it’s obvious. LSU should start running police background checks of all prospective ball players before even considering signing them. It’s almost beyond comprehension that they weren’t already doing it. Man-up Les, get control of this situation now. We need to hear an announcement of Jefferson’s suspension, and another one about a change in LSU school policy.

I guess Les should start chewing his cud longer before signing new LSU football players.

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