KU coach Bill Self responds after charge filed against player who recently left team
https://www.kansascity.com/sports/co...246788217.html
Notice how the writer tries to help Kansas out a little by phrasing the headline as if the Kansas player got into trouble after he left Kansas?
Not true. The incident was actually early in the AM on January 1, when he was playing basketball for Kansas.
The Kansas player Silvio De Souza has a history of problems. He was suspended for 2 seasons because the NCAA declared him ineligible for receiving payments from Adidas. Kansas appealed, and he only had to sit out 1 year. Then this past season he was suspended for a fight in a game against Kansas State because he threw punches, and held a stool over his head and appeared ready to strike someone with it.
But the charges now are for allegedly punching a man in a bar early (2:36 am) on New Year's Day that required hospitalization and medical care. Oddly, the Lawrence police took 10½ months to decide to press charges, allowing De Souza to continue playing last season. When De Souza was notified of the charges on Oct. 16, he and Bill Self met and Self advised De Souza to leave Kansas. The incident and the charges were never made public until today when Bill Self announced that De Souza had been charged with a felony "earlier this fall" (the charges were actually12 days ago) and that he was opting out of 2020-21.
https://www.kansascity.com/sports/co...246788217.html
Notice how the writer tries to help Kansas out a little by phrasing the headline as if the Kansas player got into trouble after he left Kansas?
Not true. The incident was actually early in the AM on January 1, when he was playing basketball for Kansas.
The Kansas player Silvio De Souza has a history of problems. He was suspended for 2 seasons because the NCAA declared him ineligible for receiving payments from Adidas. Kansas appealed, and he only had to sit out 1 year. Then this past season he was suspended for a fight in a game against Kansas State because he threw punches, and held a stool over his head and appeared ready to strike someone with it.
But the charges now are for allegedly punching a man in a bar early (2:36 am) on New Year's Day that required hospitalization and medical care. Oddly, the Lawrence police took 10½ months to decide to press charges, allowing De Souza to continue playing last season. When De Souza was notified of the charges on Oct. 16, he and Bill Self met and Self advised De Souza to leave Kansas. The incident and the charges were never made public until today when Bill Self announced that De Souza had been charged with a felony "earlier this fall" (the charges were actually12 days ago) and that he was opting out of 2020-21.
