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More College Basketball Players Behaving Badly

chitownBUB said:
The saga of University of Tennessee's leading returning player, Major Wingate appears to be near the end.
After numerous problems many including drugs, the player was remarkably still allowed to remain on the team.
But finally he has now done something described as
"a violation of team rules"
and Bruce Pearl is dismissing him from the team. Apparently he will remain on scholarship, though. ?? :roll:
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/govols/article/0,1406,KNS_294_4972273,00.html
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Wingate had failed reportedly at least two prior drug tests and was on a short leash.
Dick Vitale reveals in his column today that the reason Wingate was dismissed was that he failed yet another drug test.
I guess he just ran out of "Get Out of Jail Free" cards.
 
Just as predicted, the NCAA is about to step in and take control over all these horrible incident of players/athletes misbehaving.
Leaving the discipline up to the schools has led to ridiculously soft penalties, as has been outlined many times on this board.
The recent football brawl at Miami IS A PERFECT CASE IN POINT.
Virtually all those involved in the on-field melee/brawl got a measly one game suspension from the University.
ONE GAME---so the NCAA has finally said that's enough.
If you coaches don't dole out some actual discipline (are you listening coaches?) then the NCAA WILL.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2006-10-17-behavior-policy_x.htm
 
That is amazing.
Almost every commentator agrees the penalties were way too soft.
In response FIU strengthened all their penalties and kicked two guys out of school.
But Miami still sticks with its horribly weak punishment, which Prez Shalala keeps hooting that her penalties are "fair, justified, and strong."

Most of the present sentiment is going strongly against her, and for good reason.
She obviously is in the back pocket of the rich football boosters who want to win football games, not do the right thing.
She is a disgrace. She should resign.
 
Wow.

And in the final sentence of the article Ron Stratten, the NCAA's vice president of education services, said:

"There's a lot of good kids and some bad kids, and we always make excuses for talent."
 
Here's an oddity...
this report is about college swimmers and divers getting arrested.
I thought this only happened to basketball and football players?
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5590471&nav=menu35_3


But here's the quirk....most believe that these kids should be kicked off the team.
"I can understand the school's decision kick them off because I know if we got caught for drinking or
vandalizing cars, we could be put in prison. I feel like it's a reasonable decision and can't really argue with it"

Wonder why the same discipline isn't shown in basketball ?



By the way, here's just one more example of laughably soft discipline.
UMass has two students (one of whom is the starting point guard) who were
arrested for starting a brawl at an eatery....and guess what discipline they got.
Suspended for one exhibition and ONE regular game. :roll:
http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/page...n=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=6.1.1
 
Shalala

Shalala

AB99 said:
That is amazing.
Almost every commentator agrees the penalties were way too soft.
In response FIU strengthened all their penalties and kicked two guys out of school.
But Miami still sticks with its horribly weak punishment, which Prez Shalala keeps hooting that her penalties are "fair, justified, and strong."

Most of the present sentiment is going strongly against her, and for good reason.
She obviously is in the back pocket of the rich football boosters who want to win football games, not do the right thing.
She is a disgrace. She should resign.
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Hmmmmmmm. Didn't she work for Bill Clinton? :roll: :wink:
 
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Re: Shalala

Braves4Life said:
Hmmmmmmm. Didn't she work for Bill Clinton? :roll: :wink:
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Yes, she did....that is where she cultivated a tolerance for foul behavior.
 
In another "players behaving badly" story, New Mexico State head coach suspended Tyrone Nelson (an all-conference pick last year and pitted to be the starting center) when he was implicated in a robbery of a pizza delivery man.
When the delivery man declined to press charges, the case was dropped and Theus reinstated Nelson, but the local newspaper did disclose the phone number to where the delivery man was dropping off the pizza was indeed Nelson's raising suspicion among the fan base.
Then just last week, Theus again suspended Nelson for the oft-used (undisclosed violation of team rules), and has now reinstated the kid again as of this evening.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news;...p-newmexicost-nelsonreturns&prov=ap&type=lgns
 
Here's one for the fans behaving badly file.

A 19 year old guy goes to cheer on his favorite high school team (which by the way is in the same conference as Bradley recruit-Daniel West's team ) and while he's standing and cheering, a loaded handgun falls out of his clothing and onto the gymnasium floor.

Ooops.....

How does one explain this??

Did the guy just forget he had packed it?
The article says that other fans tried to hide the gun to help keep the armed teenager from getting caught.

Happily the police did get involved.

http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-40/116239626770700.xml&coll=5
 
Not a college player, but this one deserves special mention.

Antonio Bryant, San Francisco 49ers wide receiver,
caught driving recklessly, over 100mph, and drunk.
The funny line comes right after mentioning the 49ers have a tough game this coming Sunday:

"Bryant, 25, is expected to play, a team official said..."

"San Mateo Police Capt. Kevin Raffaelli said officers entering northbound Highway 101 were passed by an orange 2005 Lamborghini traveling at estimated speeds in excess of 100 mph.....Bryant refused to take a sobriety test and was uncooperative and verbally combative with the officers, who placed him under arrest and booked him "

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_4704560
 
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