Don't agree with the bolded statement. TW and TCS suited up to play against ISU the night after their incident. TW even scored the game-winning points. It's not like their suspensions were handed out right away. Wasn't their punishment originally kept in-house and handled by having them do extra work after practice? It wasn't until JoJo Glasser stepped in that they were suspended for the WSU game.
No- incorrect.
The violations by TW and TCS were minor (speeding and underaged drinking). They received citations, and were punished accordingly by Jim Les by action he took before the next game. TW was benched to start the game (he was a starter for every other game), and TCS was held out of the game completely. This satisfied the disciplinary policy that players with no prior disciplinary issues are not punished as severaly as repeat offenders.
If a coach and an athletic program have a defined policy for discipline and handing out punishments, like Bradley's basketball program did, and that policy was followed perfectly by Jim Les, as it was, then who are you or I to say that it wasn't handled correctly?
If you don't like the policy, then change it. But it was not appropriate to use the incident, on the tail of the Dalquist incident, to "make an example" of the 2 players, which is clearly what was done.
By the way, you may believe the punishments that JL had already handed down to TW and TCS were too light, but they were still much more than a couple ISU players got who had real DUIs, and was harsher than an Illinois player got who almost killed a teammate and was driving intoxicated with a BAL several times the limit.