Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: As I listened to Seth Greenberg go on and on about how UCLA's trio of petty thieves should be suspended for an entire season before having their transfers forced only one question came to mind... Why stop there? Shit, is completely re-routing their lives is what's going to teach them that it is, in fact, extremely dumb to steal from luxury outlets overseas while standing out in a way that only ridiculously tall American athletes could? If that's the case then maybe they should be automatically enlisted so that they can give back to the country whose reputation they singlehandedly ruined by stealing upcharged aviators. If the right course of disciplinary action is to make them carry the heaviest of burdens for so long that it gives the backbone of their future scoliosis then that experience should be even more jarring and traumatic than sitting in a holding cell in Shanghai. A couple games? A COUPLE GAMES?!? HA! What do these kids look like, uncultured first time offenders that are mere months removed from high school and had no business wandering around foreign territories without supervision in the first place?!? Is Jason Williams taking crazy pills? Does he not realize that young, dumb kids pilfering a couple products on international soil is, without a doubt, the most irredeemable of embarrassments to a nation that was at the height of being taken serious globally? Look, I get that the Moe, Larry, Curley of PAC12 basketball deserve a punishment that fits a crime as mind numbingly stupid as shoplifting in China. They probably shouldn't have needed a college education to understand how insanely bad of an idea that is. However, maybe - just maybe - we could factor in that they were held up in a hotel and forced to acknowledge the possibility (be it however small) that they could be forced to spend the next decade of their lives tucked away in a Chinese prison? Honestly, if that eye-opening realization didn't scare them into paying for their accessories going forward then spending a year watching from the sidelines before slipping into a USC Trojans jersey ain't gonna do it. h/t AwfulAnnouncing
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