I empathize with Jack McCaffery, because I was very nearly him once upon a time.
McCaffery, son of Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery and widely-considered a top-100 prospect in the class of 2025 (these are not the similarities I mentioned), made news as the operator of a vehicle that struck and killed a runner in late May. The deceased, SFC Corey Hite, was weeks away from retirement after a long career with the Iowa National Guard. Investigators ruled it an unavoidable accident, but one that claimed one life and altered another irrevocably.
And now, I will tell a completely true story.