Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim says the suspension given to starting guard Eric Devendorf by a university judicial board is too severe.
The board recommended Wednesday that Devendorf be suspended for the remainder of the academic year after allegedly hitting a female student in the face. He is appealing the decision.
Umm...as the Dagger noted, and we linked to, Devendorf's own teammates basically admitted that something went down--they were apologetic in their text messages; they were asking that Devendorf be given a chance to explain, whilst admitting that what he did wasn't right.
Devendorf, it seems, slapped or punched a chick. Boeheim thinks that isn't that big of a deal. Not to betray any anti-Syracuse bias, but what else would you expect from that little rat-faced fuck?
What the Dagger didn't mention, at all, as far as I can tell, is Jim Boeheim's weirdly wrong stance that nothing wrong happened. Jimmy has no idea what went down. He has no business weighing in on what is or what isn't "too severe."
Again, the Dagger is quite right in pointing out that this maybe should haven't even gone to the Syracuse Judicial Board. The woman in question asked for the cops to arrest the man who had just punched her in the face. And they didn't arrest him. This story is far from done, and I doubt Jimmy Boeheim's stout defense of his player is going to look good in retrospect.
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Typical pro-race-centralist bullshit. Amateur, and I grew up on Cheerios if you know what I chew mein!
Would he have been suspended for punching a man?
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