Card Clicks: CSN's Barry Tompkins Discusses Shayne Skov's DUI

by Scott Allen on Feb 7, 2012 7:01 AM PST

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CSN Bay Area's Barry Tompkins spoke rather candidly about Shayne Skov's DUI arrest, which was first reported in The Stanford Daily. Tompkins, a college football analyst for the network, expects Skov to be suspended for 1-2 games. Asked whether he was surprised about the incident, here's what he said:

"I am surprised. ... I enjoy the occasional adult beverage myself. I don't know what he blew, I don't know how serious it was, I don't know if it was one of those things where he truly was jeopardizing other people on the road, and I'm sure even if you're just at the legal limit, you still are endangering yourself and other people. Again, I have to say, I want to be really clear about not condoning it, but I do think, knowing football players as I do, I would venture a fairly educated guess that at any given time that probably could have happened to half the Stanford football team, or any other university in America."

Some members of the Stanford football team might take issue with Tompkins' assessment, but that's not for me to say. I understand there's some difference between driving with a BAC of .18 on the 101 and driving with a BAC of .08 on Embarcadero Road. We don't know the details of Skov's arrest. We do know that he apparently made a stupid decision that has brought embarrassment to himself and Stanford.

I don't expect Skov to be suspended for more than 1-2 games, perhaps in addition to being barred from team activities during the spring. Once all the facts are reviewed, I trust that David Shaw will levy an appropriate punishment. Skov should learn from this and come back better than ever.

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Half the team?

I would guess somewhere between 25%-50% of the campus has operated a vehicle—whether car or bike—drunk. And that’s not because Stanford’s full of drunkards, it’s because if you want to drink and you aren’t living in New York, it’s hard not to have driven intoxicated at least once in your life.

by dth1 on Feb 7, 2012 8:12 AM PST reply actions

Stanford is special

A women’s basketball player got kicked off the basketball team for driving a golf cart inebriated.

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by RedOscar on Feb 7, 2012 8:57 AM PST up reply actions

Except

Hones led the police on a high-speed (for a golf cart) chase and was (apparently) generally a troublemaker anyway. Skov’s situation is completely different.

by dth1 on Feb 7, 2012 9:29 AM PST up reply actions

Yeah...

… when I first heard about this, I wondered if they didn’t nab him on a bike.

Hopefully Skov learns from this and returns a better, more mature person for it.

by RickeySteals on Feb 7, 2012 10:55 AM PST up reply actions

Oh really?

It’s not hard. If you’re an adult entrusted with a license to drive and a license to drink, I think you can be expected to either a) have a DD, b) pay for a taxi, or c) watch how much you drink. If you can’t make those types of adult decisions then you are a child, and should not be drinking or driving.

by French Rage on Feb 7, 2012 11:11 AM PST up reply actions

Sounds good.

But like I said, I suspect you’d find a high percentage, maybe the majority, of Americans who’ve operated a vehicle drunk. Doesn’t make it right, but I wish people would stop being holier-than-thou about it—and maybe support some better public transit options.

by dth1 on Feb 7, 2012 11:20 AM PST up reply actions

Or a bar on every block

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by Anonymous IV at Mono Lake on Feb 7, 2012 11:47 AM PST up reply actions

Not sure if joking

But this is a good idea too.

by dth1 on Feb 7, 2012 3:14 PM PST up reply actions

I was only half joking

Drinking and driving is not funny. If people could drink closer to home, or have better public transit options, there might be less drinking and driving.

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by Anonymous IV at Mono Lake on Feb 7, 2012 4:03 PM PST up reply actions

Excellent thinking :)

I am a little concerned cause Stanford seems pretty anal retentive about this kind of stuff. During orientation for grad school it was pretty much explained that if you get caught with a DUI you risk getting kicked out.
Hopefully this will be a slap on the wrist and he won’t do it again.

by hpaskov on Feb 7, 2012 2:23 PM PST reply actions

Stanford as an institution generally takes this really seriously

For other students, i wouldn’t be surprised if they were suspended for a quarter. But, I think it’s really, really hard to actually be kicked out of school without the possibility of getting your degree. Being caught on campus, unfortunately, is much worse than any other crimes someone commits off campus.