UNC’s leading returning scorer, Hairston is in trouble with the law again. This time it is reported that Sunday he was charged with speeding and reckless driving after being stopped for driving 93 miles per hour in a 65 mph zone near Webb, NC.
Now Webb is near Coach Roy Williams’ hometown of Asheville, way out in western NC. I doubt he was out there for a visit to his coach. Hairston was already in hot water with Williams after his June arrest for possession of marijuana and driving without a license. Those charges were dropped after he came forward with a valid driver’s license and he completed some sort of “drug assessment.”
Turns out, he was also charged with speeding in May. In both May and June he was driving vehicles of unsavory characters, who have been in trouble with the law.
After the June arrest, Coach Williams said there would be disciplinary actions against Hairston. Perhaps Hairston needs to be suspended, at least until he gets some help for whatever is going on.
Imagine the young men, especially those who have grown up as Carolina fans, who don’t have the talent Hairston has seeing him mis-use his opportunity to be a Tar Heel – much less put his future basketball plans in jeopardy.
Unless he’s just a bad dude with no sense, he’s got something going on in his head. That needs to be straightened out before he puts on a Carolina uniform again.
UNC has had too many bad things going on with its sports program to simply give Hairston a tongue lashing. The team and the program can survive without Hairston, whether it’s temporarily or permanently.