This one has nothing to do with the Big East, but I couldn’t help myself. A lot of years ago, some time after that mess at Colorado with the gang-rape allegation against football players and recruits, I did a story on whether the incidences of violence perpetrated by athletes was really greater than those by regular students. And I asked whether aggression on the field skewed athletes’ sense of acceptable aggression off the field.

Clearly, I should’ve been asking about the coaches.

In August, Raiders coach Tom Cable slugged defensive assistant Randy Hanson and broke his jaw. Hanson spoke to detectives last week and the Napa Valley Police Department is weighing charges against Cable.

Now word’s out that New Mexico coach Mike Locksley punched receivers coach J.B. Gerald last week. Lucky for Locksley, New Mexico AD Paul Krebs said the incident “does not shake my faith in his leadership whatsoever.”

What?! This is a leader of young men, one charged with guiding and molding and teaching them? And he, like Cable before him, says once you become a boss, the regularly accepted rules of decorum and civility don’t apply to you? Once you become a head football coach, the rules of assault are different?

I’m sitting here trying to decide which Big East coach is most likely to lose it like that and honestly, I don’t think any of them are that stupid. What do YOU think – if Greg Schiano slugged somebody, if Dave Wannstedt broke a jaw, would they have their jobs?