For whatever reason, I’m feeling like being fair. So let me say, I don’t think the fact that WVU B-ball head coach John Beilein got cited for disorderly conduct by a police officer at the Pittsburgh Airport is that big a deal. Nor do I think that WVU should even think about taking any steps to ‘punish’ Beilein. There’s nothing to punish, it’s a traffic citation that looks bad.

West Virginia athletic director Ed Pastilong said Wednesday no immediate disciplinary action would be taken against basketball coach John Beilein after he was cited for disorderly conduct at Pittsburgh International Airport.
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[Allegheny County police Superintendent Charles] Moffatt said the coach was cited for refusing to move his car, after telling the officer he didn’t have to move the vehicle because he was the West Virginia basketball coach.

Beilein’s attorney, Bob Fitzsimmons of Wheeling, W.Va., called it a misunderstanding.

“We don’t think it was disorderly conduct,” Fitzsimmons said. “It’s a misunderstanding between two individuals at a very busy Pittsburgh airport at the end of the Memorial Day weekend.

“It’s a very routine thing, but because he’s a coach, it gets escalated to something more, when it really isn’t. It isn’t a criminal matter.”

If you’ve dropped off or picked anyone up at an airport in the last couple of years you probably have your own annoyed stories of how petty, uncaring, and frustrating the cops are at airports.
They enjoy flexing their increased power to order people to move with greater zeal.

What amuses me was the reported playing of the “do you know who I am?” card by Beilein as he lost his cool. Apparently it had served him well in Morgantown, and he forgot he was no longer in West Virginia.