USC running back Marc Tyler ran his mouth to paparazzi, the video popped up on TMZ, and the kid is going to pay the price with at least a game suspension, and possibly more.

This scenario underscores three facts of life in this world we live in. One is a fairly recent repercussion of societies’ evolution (or devolution), and the other two facts are things that have always been.

1.) Through technology, people have more access to other people’s business.

2.) People are interested in the business of public figures. (Which Tyler is, though more of in a Ron Jeremy, B-List sense. We could see him on “The Surreal Life with Pete Carroll a few years down the road.) Whether it’s for entertainment, envy, or even points of discussion, we love to poke and prod our public figures. (Remember this if you ever become semi-famous.)

3.) Timing is everything. Say and do what you want, but there are consequences to every action. When you say (jokingly or not) that players are getting paid when your school is already on probation-probably not the right time.

Marc Tyler is a kid, but kids cant just be kids when they are given as much as Tyler has been. (To whom much is given, much is expected.) That means he shouldn’t let others goad him into saying “we breaking bread at USC”, or that Kim Kardashian is the Trojan’s village bicycle. Tyler didn’t do the dumbest thing he could have while drinking (that would have been banging Kardashian without a rubber), but he didn’t do the smartest thing, either. Because USC is trying to clean up their image, nothing can run contrary to that notion right now. Not even small comments that raise the smallest of eyebrows. Therefore, Tyler is at the mercy of Pat Haden and Lane Kiffin, and he should be.

Lesson learned. Unless he has true Trojan smarts like Mike Garrett.