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[QUOTE="SarasotaPaul, post: 228468, member: 985"]
Those called out by the jury analogy are those that don't need facts to go off the deep end.  That seemed obvious. 
 
Secondly you have completely missed the essence of what CTO was saying. There is a limit to what coaches can do.  The last resort is usually suspension and thats exactly what happened to Melo. SU has had Sean Kerins, Hal Cohen, Sonny Spera (god am I dating myself) and others that used basketball to get their educations.  The majority of the basketball players now days think they are going to the NBA via the colleges.  If you think differently, you would be one of the few and you would be mistaken. The higher profile the school the more likely to have an entire roster of scholarship players that have this mindset. Think N Carolina, Kentucky (I hate thinking about them) The entire  Michigan Fab 5.  Heck just look at those that have left SU early to very early to jump to the NBA in the last several years. Is any of the original post clearer now?  I hope so since you seem to be reasonable, unlike some of the cliff jumpers in this thread.
 
As far as your assumptions, you are probably right.  The flaw in that is that BF drama was resurrected by ESPN from long ago and has been shredded to pieces since then.  The drug issues were many years back and SU brought them to the attention of the NCAA over a year and a half ago.  And back to Melo.  Thats on Melo and looks like SU did use control and used the last resort when he failed/refused to live up to his obligations and suspended him.
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