How would people rank the most troubling off-court issues we have had with the basketball program in the past 10-12 years?
If you take into account arrests & suspensions then I would doubt many can deny that the worst four offenses are (in no particular order):
-the 2008 case of Ruffin for similar circumstances
-the drug arrest in January that resulted in a 4-game suspension
-this current arrest, imprisonment, and charges for domestic battery
-the serious academic issue that resulted in a 4-game suspension to start the 2013-14 season (it was a serious academic violation for which most always students are expelled!) - and yet this violation got just one tiny mention in the press!
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20131112/SPORTS/131119756/2000/NEWS
No other issue I can recall resulted in even more than a 1-2 game suspension and none that I am aware of resulted in imprisonment or any protracted legal proceedings....
If you disagree and think there are some other examples - then please feel free to present your case.
In analyzing them, three have happened just within the past year - so one could definitely wonder if we are seeing a pattern of increasing frequency of serious off-court issues.
Then - two (the first two listed) got tons and tons of fast, frequent, and furious press coverage .. while the 2nd two got extremely little attention by the media.
I can understand why the 4th one got very little press, since that violation was not a matter of any public record and the school has the privacy obligation - although pretty much every BU fan who is anywhere close to being "in the loop" knows exactly why Prosser was disciplined.
So, as you can see - the only serious off court legal issue that got little publicity - is this current one. And why are we seeing an accelerating pattern of serious issues and suspensions...
We now have more than a dozen player suspensions, and four consecutive seasons starting with player suspensions...and one incident of four players simultaneously getting suspended.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=263171&postcount=3
Once before we had the infamous "renegade program" column by the local press when we had merely three incidents - two of which were extremely minor - and one was four years earlier!
Now we're having major issues & arrests close together - three of the worst four issues in over a decade all happening in the past year - why no interest from the media?
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=297356#post297356
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