Ryan Hare Dismissed

This is unfortunate for Hare, as he obviously crossed the boundaries too many times.
There were rumors that after being arrested for a fight and a felony battery case, he then supposedly got into yet another fight.
Even then, it took nearly another week for Coach Lowery to finally dismiss Hare.
Here is the official announcement that Hare is now dismissed...
http://siusalukis.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/101809aaa.html

But even after kids are officially dismissed, they still occasionally are let back on the team....
We've seen it at SIU with all the discipline problems they have had, and we've also seen it recently at ISU with Lloyd Phillips and at Creighton with Cavel Witter.

But Hare was a story just waiting to happen, and it's not like this whole thing wasn't actually predicted!
Hare had been in various troubles and broken team rules multiple times, and was always let off the hook without any discipline at all!
Here's proof...
One of Hare's arrests was early in his freshman year...
He was arrested right after his 19th birthday (he was still underage) when driving erratically and had been found to have been drinking.
He was issued a citation for underage drinking on 9/22/08.
http://judici.com/courts/cases/case_information.jsp?court=IL039015J&ocl=IL039015J,2008OV1582,IL039015JL2008OV1582D1

As you can see, he appeared in court on November 12, 2008 and if he stayed clean 6 months, the violation would be dismissed...and it did get dismissed - as you can see.
http://judici.com/courts/cases/case_dispositions.jsp?court=IL039015J&ocl=IL039015J,2008OV1582,IL039015JL2008OV1582D1

But SIU was not only playing in a preseason tour in Canada, also at that exact time Hare was in court, SIU was playing their home games in the 2K Sports Classic.
On Nov. 12 -- same day Hare was in court...SIU played, and Hare logged heavy minutes.
Remember, Torres Roundtree was in the doghouse and Josh Bone had been booted for his poor shooting performance in Canada.
So Lowery was desperate for guard play, and he was about to go to New York and face UCLA and Duke, so he basically said what the heyyy-- to heck with discipline, I need guards so I won't discipline Hare.
Shortly after that, Hare even became a full time starter, started MORE games than even Dillard or Mullins and logged more playing time than just about any freshman in the league...never getting disciplined in any way for the drinking violation.
http://siusalukis.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2008-2009/siu2.html

So I hold that the complete lack of discipline when Hare started with his misbehavior ad a freshman has led to Hare not really fearing any discipline now...he really had little regard for following team rules and staying out of trouble.
This is a classic case of while the cat's away the mice will play. Lowery should have disciplined Hare solidly back then and each other time he got in trouble. Instead he went soft on Hare and it blew up in his face. Now he had to dismiss the kid or be embarrassed even more by Hare's repeated behavior and criminal issues.

One other puzzling thing about all this....is the press coverage...
When Taylor Brown had his little tiff, the local newspaper had headline coverage like it was Al Capone robbing a bank. Same with the Daniel Ruffin incident, negative press dominated the next several weeks.
They had every little detail as dug up from every source of rumor....
BUT...there has yet to be really a single thing in the press at all in Southern Illinois, except the tiny mention that Hare was arrested. No mention in the paper of a single detail, what happened, where it happened, the specifics, etc...

This reminds me of how the Pantagraph intentionally hid the facts of the DUI's of Levi Dyer and Brandon Sampay and only reported on them after they became hot topics on the various message boards and people were actually calling the paper and asking about it!! Other alcohol violations in B-N haven't gotten a mention at all!
So are some local newspapers actually in the tank for the local teams? Are they doing their best to help and hide the issues?
Sure seems that way, you decide...
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