Miami Hurricanes QB N’Kosi Perry can only blame self for Snapchat Video

In the latest social media indiscretion by Miami Hurricanes starting quarterback N’Kosi Perry he has no one to blame but himself. The student newspaper the Miami Hurricane broke the story that Perry posted a sexually explicit video on Snapchat in September.

A recent thread on Twitter has some blaming the student reporter as looking for clicks or sensationalizing the story for their own benefit. It’s an ironic theory for someone to float on social media. The video makes the entire Miami Hurricanes Athletic Program look bad.

Stating that the student reporter was only looking for clicks is hypocrisy at its greatest level. Making that statement is merely looking for the same attention that the claim is making of the Miami Hurricane.

The idea of shooting the messenger for reporting the story is as old as media itself. The age of the Snapchat video is presently irrelevant. It was suggested that the three months since the ten-second video was recorded is too long to report it as news.

The era of everyone having a video camera on them at virtually all times means that athletes have to be cognizant of what they are always doing. In this case, Perry put himself in a precarious position. This wasn’t a case of someone invading his privacy.

Perry chose to take the video and then post it. The question of why didn’t the video surface earlier is valid, but a mostly moot point. It began to resurface and was disseminated among the student body in November. The timing of the video being so close to the bowl game or after three months is meaningless.

There is never a good time for a video like the one Perry took to surface. Perry’s indiscretions are not anywhere close to as bad as we have seen from athletes in the past.