The feel good story of the draft was snubbed out yesterday. A day before Training Camp was supposed to start for the Lions, Caleb Campbell, the West Point graduate who was picked in the 7th round, will instead be thrown back into the Army.

To refresh your memory, the Army implemented a rule in 2005 that if an Army member made an NFL team, he’d be reassigned to recruitment duty, so he could play in the league. A great policy, if I do say so: he’s still serving his duty (albiet, not in the giant sandbox), and he can puruse a dream of playing pro ball. Just this week, the rule was changed, and Campbell was yanked back into the real world.

Just looking at CBS Sports, you can see the two sides of the argument. Some are pissed at the US Government, while some are pissed that others are pissed. And they’re both very valid arguments… until you see this in the original story:

Despite his disappointment, Campbell said he is “really excited” for his next assignment — a year as a graduate assistant football coach for the Army, either at the U.S. Military Academy or the service academy’s preparatory school.

He’s not going overseas. He’s holding a clipboard on the sidelines.

What’s funny is that this takes the jam out of both doughnuts. Those who are livid at the Government have now, at best, half an argument, since he’s not exactly being yanked from Ford Field and dropped in Afghanistan. Yet the other side can’t lean back on the argument of “He signed up to serve, he needs to serve!” since he’s not really serving anything, except Gatorade.