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[QUOTE="samspann1, post: 228317, member: 1568"]
So sorry to hear about your friend.
 
It's obviously true that basketball is ultimately just a game, but this is a basketball forum, with posters who clearly love the game, and SU.  That said, most, if not all of the posters here have made a significant emotional (and often times, financial) investment in SU basketball.  To expect people here to detach themselves and react objectively to news relating to SU basketball (be it good or bad) is not realistic, IMO.  
 
No offense, but to blame posters here for Melo slacking off in his studies...I just don't see that.  If we had a 50-page thread urging Melo to study his ass off, would he have done so?

Nobody can [I]make[/I] a kid study if he doesn't want to.  But maybe the staff needs to take a harder look at the kids they bring in.  Maybe there needs to be more stringent academic oversight.  I have a hard time believing that their personalities and study habits do a 180 once they set foot on campus.  I don't know what the solution is, but I don't believe that the kids (and yes, they are kids, at least from a maturity standpoint) are always solely to blame.
 
Personally, unless it's a score update, I've grown tired of seeing SU's name scroll across the ticker of my TV screen.  The eligibility issues, allegations against Fine, fights, domestic issues, etc...it's become tiresome, and frankly, embarrassing. 
 
JMO.  Flame away.
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