The admin of the Bradley Board loves to troll the McLean County website and post when Illinois State players have run-ins with the law. A DUI here, driving with a suspended license, a felony assault here or there. I get it, these are kids, they make mistakes. I only wish I was a perfect law abiding citizen who never had a run-in with the law. But anyway......he's going on a rant talking about all the "Lawless" behavior at Illinois State, and right around the same time a member of the BU Soccer team stuck a lit roman candle under the door of a sleeping, intoxicated, under age (19) player as a prank, which caused a huge fire and his subsequent death.
As a parent and human being, I sent my condolences as any sports fan would do and generally felt sorry for the kid and his family. But it wasn't long before "Goofy" as we call him on Redbirdfan.com started up again on the lawless state of Illinois St. athetics. I merely responded that he should be careful throwing stones when you live in a glass house. I might have alluded to the fact that thus far none of the incidents at ISU resulted in the loss of human life. Been a while so my memory is fuzzy on the exact language, but it didn't matter as I was BANNED for LIFE. Which basically meant under the username REALBird. LOL. It was never personal with the victim, and I still feel bad for the BU community and the kids family. But I consider the admins on that board to be very thin skinned. They love pointing out every other schools flaws, but can't stomach cleaning up their own house.
My point was it's a slippery slope when you let your hatred of a school based on a "game" impact your emotions and logic. These are still kids who make mistakes, some make stupid decisions that impact them in the short term. Some make stupid decisions that last forever. I'm sure they have a different version of the events, but hey.....it's whatever.
