Fair enough. But there are a lot of people on this board who can't tell the difference between a fact and an assumption. And I'm pretty sure most of them don't have friends inside the program and that follow the program very closely, including ass't coaches for the last 30 years.
What you want doesnt exist. Go to class, practise, bed. Rinse and repeat. I understand things happen. What mcw did or didnt do is wrong but minor.
What about when Dion didn't play? Remember that one. Nothing public but many think it was in response to things that may have transpired before. JB doesn't go public with it.
I think the divide is that for a lot of those people, they have been waiting for discipline for a long time. And as others have said, JB never says the right thing in these situitions. Jake had a great post about what jb could have said. MCW didn't injure anyone but stealing is a serious offense. Let's not poo poo that. You guys on the other side are right about one thing without question. It's never going to change. Why us on the other side get worked up about it, is probably just plain crazy.
Jb didn't play him because Dion disrespected him. I guess that is an offense serious enough to sit. Hit a girl, not so much.
Nothing even remotely like that. Very bad example on your part. I don't need to know the why's and wherefores. Just once, in 37 years, do I want to see JB take some of these off the court issues seriously. Just once, see him make a statement like Baron did last night. You did wrong off the court. You don't play in the first half. Just once.
Not sure what the 'you guys' means. If he did something wrong, I want him punished to fit the crime. My problem is the people who make an assumption and treat it as fact. And it's not limited to just this circumstance. That's all. Peace
Attention NCAA, I must alert you to the fact that a man named albanycuse is trying to raise money for a basketball player at syracuse. Said person knows it is an ncaa violation. Don't hurt the school but do all you can do to get him committed to the insane asylum he belongs in.
So you do now admit he does do things privately if it involves his team. If someone did something JB disapproved of he may do something privately.
I don't look at consistentcy as a virtue when it is wrong. It sounds like my golf game. I hit it the same way all the time. That sure don't make it right.
I really don't think the lesson from the Bernie situation should be punish someone based on what the press says/wants.
the P.S. didn't take the quote out of context. Everyone who says something that blows up a bit on them says that. The something that the P.S. brought up was not made up by them. MCW was detained for shop lifting. Believe me when I tell you this, the P.S. has the goods on this and JB knows it. At his presser on saturday night, JB didn't take exception to what was written. We all know, Jimmy isn't shy about saying something isn't true.
And when someone like Dion does something JB thinks is out of line, ie a team rule, JB will institute a punishment. JB doesn't like to go public with them.
You're the naive one if you think the same sort of "troubles" aren't going on in every major program, year after year.
