I wonder if playing on the Gators team with a murderer like Aron Hernandez had an effect on Percy? IIRC, there were indications that Hernandez's drive-by behavior began long before Florida. He had to write a letter to every team in the NFL in order to get drafted because of his history.
I'm sure a lot of "gators' didn't have any facts about Aaron, but that kind of stuff gets out, and if you've already got behavioral issues (like me), then you're thrust in to a relationship where someone is psycho-dangerous, it could add to the stress level.
Pure speculation on my part.
It's good to see behavioral issues being brought out in to the light. I've had my own problems, but used to be I had little compassion for those that thought about, or committed suicide, or that claimed severe depression, until I had my own episode.
I have zero idea what prompted it, or why, but thankfully it only lasted a short duration. It was like a physical thing that washed over me, and it felt like my whole countenance just turned in to one, giant, sad frown. I had this feeling of "Why go on?" with no specific thoughts or idea of what in my life was so terrible.
But we're all basically meatbags, full of bones, controlled by glands that secrete chemicals. And when those glands get out of whack, they begin to secrete too much, or too little, or the wrong combination of chemicals in to our system, and our subsequent emotions are a direct response to that imbalance.
It's like anger, and hate. Those aren't true emotions. They're just responses to being afraid, or being hurt. I've never been so pissed in my life as I was right after I got charged by a Brown Bear, and her 3 cubs. Emotional, chemical, visceral, reaction.
Then there's the anger I felt when going through my divorce. When you're not being hurt, and not having the shit scared out of you, you don't have the propensity to experience hate or anger.