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(04-17-2017 08:31 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  

(04-16-2017 10:55 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(04-16-2017 10:21 PM)Justanodufan Wrote:  

(04-16-2017 08:39 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(04-16-2017 01:37 PM)Justanodufan Wrote:  Out of curiosity do you own a business? If you do how many strikes would you allow your employees to have?

If you don't own a business, I assume your employer has rules/guidelines that must be enforced. How many chances should you get if you break the rules?

At NO point have I implied that I think that kids are being kicked off the team when they don't deserve to be, I am pretty sure only one person has even beat that drum. In fact, I have said the exact opposite. I am more concerned with the fact that JJ is either recruiting too many idiots, or not doing a good enough job of engaging his team. Make all the excuses for why this isn't on the coaching staff that you want, but you just aren't being realistic. The fact is that healthy college basketball programs don't have this many suspensions and dismissals.

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I had a teammate who had a love for hot boxing... really good player (all conference first team good) and in 4 years never once failed a drug test. Want to know why? He never took one. He never got selected. On a team of 12 dudes that's pretty hard to never get picked. But our 11, 12 man seemed to always get picked........ my point the programs that aren't dismissing people tend to have really lax rules or choose not to uphold the sanctions for certain sports. It's how you wind up with situations like Baylor Football and Kansas Basketball

You are going to a bit of an extreme with the Baylor/Kansas comparisons. If you belief that our issues with discipline are truly related to a heightened level of accountability in the program, there are still like 300 schools between our level of accountability and that of Kansas/Baylor.

Beyond that, if JJ is a man of such high integrity (I actually believe he is... in a good way), he needs to focus on recruiting players who can live up to his lofty standards in order to avoid the breakdowns that we are seeing... we can be William & Mary, which from our current place would be an improvement.

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William and Mary has issues too. There star point guard 2 years ago was suspended. But, he got his act together enough to stay on the team.

A suspension from time to time is not unexpected. The consistency with which we see suspensions and dismissals is a problem.