![]() ![]() ![]() Had the school done that initially, and dealt with the reality instead of going the ostrich route, it would have seemed a whole lot less nefarious than it does now, when Miller’s association comes out only via police testimony. In my opinion, the university should have been transparent from the get-go and said that Miller and Bradley were on site, and though they weren’t guilty of anything beyond bad judgment, they are now suspended for a handful of games to understand the magnitude of consequences for bad decisions. Even argued that Alabama, frankly, had done Miller a disservice. ![]() He’s even garnered more headlines than his freshman class teammate, Jaden Bradley, even though police testimony clearly puts Bradley on the scene for the encounter. But Miller? That’s juicy, and so his name association pushed the whole crime into the headlines far more than a traditional bond hearing would have. Darius Miles was never going to amount to much as a basketball player. I have watched from afar as people flock to the big name that is loosely associated with a crime, instead of concentrating on the criminal at the core. I have previously parked myself in the wait-and-see camp, able to see how Miller, the shiny penny of the Alabama program, absorbed the heat for what might, in the end, be simply a decision of horrifically bad judgment. You’re out of excuses.īrandon Miller being introduced during the starting lineups /Fen0xT8V8L Ignorance only gets you so far in life eventually you meet reality. If that’s the defense, if cluelessness is the defense, it’s simply not good enough. And yet it never occurred to him that this could be seemed insensitive, if not downright cruel? That if there was some MMA reference, odds are most people wouldn’t get it? That it simply isn’t worth it? Miller is a mature legal adult mature enough that in a few months’ time, some NBA franchise will deem him responsible enough to heap millions of dollars on him. Thirteen-year-olds do things for effect and act like doofuses. Change it up, bud?’’Īnd before we deflect blame on everyone else, let’s drop it squarely where it belongs. When college sports teams micromanage down to the single calorie that their athletes consume, put together computer-generated charts to ensure their workload isn’t too heavy for competition, no one thought to say, “Hey, Brandon. ![]()
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