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I played organized basketball growing up. The teams had rules. We followed the rules or we couldn't play on the team. Over the years, I saw people kicked off the team for:

1) smoking cigarettes
2) drinking
3) slamming a basketball down and getting a technical foul (only happened once and the player was gone)
4) goofing off in the weight room
5) missing a fall workout (1st offense)

We never had anyone try to rob, rape, assault, deal drugs, etc...yet we lost many players who couldn't follow the rules.

Today we have some people trying to justify keeping these guys on the team. Unbelievable. If they are gulity, they should go. Sometimes you truly are guilty by association. I hate to see young men and women throw their lives away, but they can't be rewarded for these actions or it will never stop.

We were all able to follow the rules (those of us who made it to our senior year on the team)....so it is a reasonable expectation.
 
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Things have changed though. They want the best athletes to play.
 
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In my day (today) those infractions would usually constitute a special 6 am workout for the offender. Kicked off doesn't happen very often.drinking results in two week suspension (1st offense), though this really only applies if you're caught by school staff/cops. The coaches do not put a ban on drinking. Though we have drug users every year (pot mostly), we haven't had any issues in my 4 years, namely due to the fact that we do not have drug testing. I've seen suspensions for, missed workouts, missed practices, missed mandatory classes/study halls, drinking, fighting, disrespecting coach, playing men's softball during baseball season, and for violation of dorm rules. We've only had one scholarship removal in my 4 years here and that was for a player stealing money from another players wallet in the lockerroom. Removal from team is hard to come by generally.
 
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Things were different not too long ago. There's alot less tolerance for prankish behavior. I was thinking about a fraternity brother of mine who once wandered into a Krystal's at about 2-3am wearing nothing but a pair of Wallabees. Then, his worst punishment was having the ladies behind the counter laugh and refuse him service. Now, he'd probably be on the sex offender's registry.

I'm not going to try and condone what these guys did but I can remember back in Elementary school days me and other neighborhood kids taking potshots at people's hubcaps as they passed through our neighborhood. We got chased a couple of times but nobody ever called the police. Different times.
 
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Times have changed. We now reward bad behavior. I know every program has bad apples and problems with the law, but I want ours to be the exception. I've already heard the bammer jokes about "at least they will get to wear team colors in jail", "are they going to have them wear black and orange jumpsuits?" blah blah blah

Usually we don't have this big a problem like the other schools do. Makes it rough on a VOL in bammer country when something like this happens.
 
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Unfortunately, we are not talking about throwing at hubcaps, drinking or just missing a curfew, we are talking about armed robbery.
 
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The Tall Gguy said:
I played organized basketball growing up. The teams had rules. We followed the rules or we couldn't play on the team. Over the years, I saw people kicked off the team for:

3) slamming a basketball down and getting a technical foul (only happened once and the player was gone)
4) goofing off in the weight room
5) missing a fall workout (1st offense)

We never had anyone try to rob, rape, assault, deal drugs, etc...yet we lost many players who couldn't follow the rules.
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#3 is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Lord forbid a hoodlum dunk a basketball and hang on the rim!

#4 could be understandable. I guess it depends on what "goofing off" is.

#5 is a little extreme as well.

When I played basketball our rules were not that strict and no one ever tried to commit those acts of crime either... so what say you?
 
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#16
The OP is dead on. Sad that people are beating up on him instead of the losers that committed a crime and will get off with a minor slap on the wrist just because they play ball.
 
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VolsNSkinsFan said:
you need to say good bye to the 19th century and hello to the 21st
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Discipline and high standards should be for all time. We should never back down from these things because the younger generation wants it made easier.
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