re: Three LSU Basketball Players Arrested by LSU PD

I agree they shouldn't be kicked off the team or out of school, but an arrest and some kind of mild punishment like community service is definitely reasonable.

Paint guns can do damage.

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Honestly, that is the exact attitude that has our program where it is at the moment and created the mess that Wade inherited.

Is what these kids did a heinous crime? No. But is this how you want the program to be represented? By a bunch of kids doing dumb shite? Make a list of the perennial winning programs. Places like Duke, Kentucky, Gonzaga, Villanova, just to name a few. How often do their kids get caught doing something this idiotic? I want a program where I don't have to see this shite and say "Oh well!!! At least it wasn't a felony!! LULZ!!"

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I would imagine some of the players at all of those schools have done similar dumb things. We just don't hear about it much because (a) it's not the local school and (b) basketball isn't popular enough here for the fans to really care about what goes on at other schools.

Rasheed Sulaimon at Duke was charged with sexually assaulting a female in 2013 and was kicked off the team. There were other Duke players who took cash from boosters,

Derek Willis at UK was arrested for public intoxication a few years back.

Gonzaga had two players arrested in 2007 with weed and mushrooms. Another player was arrested last year for DWI.

That's not to say the LSU players shouldn't be punished, but college kids, especially college athletes doing dumb shite isn't anything new. What's new is that information getting out. If we had the internet, social media, 24 hour news in the 50', 60's, 70's etc, people would be appalled at some of the stupid things players were doing then.

Wade will handle it and it will be a teaching moment for the players OR they'll go so somewhere else to play.

I wonder if they at least hit what they were aiming at?

At least they aren't stealing or doing drugs.
I say this is a WIN!

Correct. Drive by shots from car to sidewalk (5' away?). Word is at least one of the females was Injured.

[img]Shooting random folks with paintball guns (on campus) is "horsing around"? Keep making excuses for these assholes. If they didn't play college ball for your favorite team, you'd be pissed off. I used to play paintball and those frickers hurt. I couldn't imagine catching one in the eye.[/img]

Yeah it's pretty arrogant and obnoxious

Not cool at all. Especially random people. I didn't read the info though so I have no idea. They should go shoot each other with paintballs if they want.

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We used to load our snowballs with rocks. What about dirt clod fights?

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I can remember hiding in the ditch and throwing pine cones at passing cars in my neighborhood. Of course I was 10.

To me this ain't nearly as serious as some of the things our football players have done and never missed a play of a game.

But it still is significant enough to warrant punishment and accountability is a must IMHO. I think Wade will address it accordingly.

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The son of a family friend was shot between the eyes in a drive-by paintball shooting in NOLA. He still has a slight scar and only by the grace of God was he not blinded in one eye.

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Waguespack?