IN a different world Karmichael Hunt might easily be in camp preparing to play NSW today.

Wouldn’t that light up the Origin soap opera.

Thankfully, the biggest story in the three football codes right now involves the other two, although the NRL has not escaped some mud.

When Hunt was busted in possession of drugs last summer he rolled over on other Gold Coast Suns players. In an interview with law enforcement officials he named 12 Suns players he snorted coke with at a Mad Monday celebration that lasted three days.

media_camera Karmichael Hunt leaving his house on Brisbane’s northside. Pictures: Jack Tran

The small grenade he rolled into the room shortly before trotting off and taking his rich $2 million deal with the Queensland Reds was to also implicate an Origin and Kangaroos player as the one who provided him with the contact for his drug dealer.

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Is that player in camp now?

We can only speculate.

The only certainty is that Hunt did what he could to save his own skin.

Names? How many do you need?

Hunt had a $2 million rugby deal and a Rugby World Cup he needed to get ready for.

He needed this silly little drug matter out of the way as soon as possible, so he rolled. Forget about the ramifications for others.

What does that say to his teammates?

Now and in the future?

I’ve got your back ... until the heat really comes down.

So now the Suns have been left to deal with the fallout of Hunt’s selfishness, as have the Origin camps.

The NRL integrity unit has announced its intention to investigate Hunt’s claim that he got the name of his drug dealer from an Origin and Kangaroos player.

This is a fresh test for the integrity who, until recent changes, couldn’t hit the mark if they were shooting fish in a barrel.

Will the integrity unit go into Origin camps now to interview the player if he’s there?

Should they interview him before Origin III to determine whether there is enough evidence to stop him playing the game?

“While I never partied with [the player] or seen him using drugs, I was aware that he partied every so often and dabbled with cocaine,” Hunt said.

media_camera Karmichael Hunt during a Queensland Reds training session. Pic Darren England.

By rolling, Hunt revealed himself as a selfish man.

Most of us live lives where there is no chance of something like that coming back to bite us because we just don’t go away on three-day drug benders. The fact Hunt is a husband and father apparently meant little, such is the culture of the environment he was in.

The rest of us live a little differently, pushing our toes over the line, but accepting there are consequences if we do.

The golden rule here is if you win ‘em, you wear ‘em. In other words, if you get busted, cop the consequences.

Hunt was not even up to that.

He is part of the second group but pretends to be part of the first.

He rolled to save his own future, with scant regard for the damage he was doing to others.

You can be sure investigators have since taken a look into the lives of those players he named, which might be completely unfair.

His rollover is a quiet lesson for every team sportsmen.

What can they ever be sure of? What might others say one day down the line?

Nothing is truly in the past anymore.

Who can be trusted?

Mostly, though, what values are clubs and codes teaching players.

This is wrong on every level.