re: Mauk may have played his last game at Mizzou

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Isn't his dad fighting cancer right now?

Hopefully, Mauk can pull his life together.

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Yup.

Say what you will, but a young man whose dad and lifelong coach is fighting cancer coupled with tremendous pressure of a team with WRs who can't catch, an O-line that crumbles and a MASH unit at running back, and a fanbase and campus all blaming the QB and clamoring for his touted young backup to take over, all coming to a head with a loss at Kentucky...look, it's not too hard to see a young college kid doing something really really stupid to take the edge off over the weekend.

Who knows what his past history was with it, if that's what happened, but we all know plenty of high school kids next door and college kids in this country who have had problems of this kind. As others have said, if this is what has happened, main thing is to wish him and his father well and hope he gets help.