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Salukis suspend Diamond Taylor

It was a charge of possession of marijuana, though the team and school have not admitted that. All they will say is "a violation of team rules".

But here is the truth-
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/article_ae9b6bc6-d5e4-11e0-8aec-001cc4c002e0.html

SIU coach Lowery is hanging on there by a thread, and this year's team will be picked for near the bottom of the league. So even though Taylor has not shown that he can contribute much, I would be very surprised if he misses more than one or two meaningless exhibition games. Especially since there are strong indications that 2 or possibly more of their returning players may be declared academically ineligible for the first semester. Lowery can't afford to kick him off the team, or impose a long suspension. Lowery has already demonstrated multiple times he is quite lax on discipline, and this is not the first time Diamond Taylor has been in trouble. When SIU took him in after his legal trouble at Wisconsin got him booted off the team, and dismissed form the University, he supposedly had a zero-tolerance agreement. So much for that.
 
It will be interesting to see what kind of "discipline" Chris Lowery applies to Diamond Taylor. I am not holding my breath that it will be real discipline. Note that Dre Henley was caught with marijuana and was immediately dismissed from NIU. Coach Mark Montgomery didn't say they would wait for the legal system to play out, or act strict by suspending him for a meaningless stretch during the offseason.
Ray Brown wasn't even caught with possession nor did he violate any laws, but he was suspended for a full year.
I respect coaches who do place discipline over winning games. SIU has never demonstrated that they care about that.
 
Da Coach said:
It will be interesting to see what kind of "discipline" Chris Lowery applies to Diamond Taylor. I am not holding my breath that it will be real discipline. Note that Dre Henley was caught with marijuana and was immediately dismissed from NIU. Coach Mark Montgomery didn't say they would wait for the legal system to play out, or act strict by suspending him for a meaningless stretch during the offseason.
Ray Brown wasn't even caught with possession nor did he violate any laws, but he was suspended for a full year.
I respect coaches who do place discipline over winning games. SIU has never demonstrated that they care about that.
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Henley left school on his own, Montgomery didn't dismiss him.

http://www.huskiewire.com/articles/2011/09/01/19586998/index.xml
 
SIU starts regular season play this Saturday vs. Ohio Dominican - but Chris Lowery has ended Diamond Taylor's suspension - so he'll probably play...missing a grand total of zero actual games after a drug arrest...
..reminiscent of Ryan Hare starting and playing in an SIU game the same night he was in court for underage booze violations -- and we all know how that discipline issue turned out..
 
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