While I hope it's not a mistake, I do think what he did is something that can be worked through. I think it's fairly common really. I had a friend in college that I went to visit in his apartment, and there was a hole in his wall. He saw me looking at it, grinned, and said "yeah I have a temper". And I can neither confirm nor deny that my hallway may have had some fresh plaster on it a few years ago.
He might be a sombitch, but he's a sombitch we need. CBs were totally overmatched against BYU, hate to see what even Felipe might do to them without Thompson.