McGary, Stauskas, and GRIII Participating in NBA Draft Combine
http://collegespun.com/national/the-official-nba-combine-participant-li…
All three of Michigan's draft declarants will participate in the NBA draft combine this week. Not much of a surprise, but it is now official.
Odd that the Detroit News just had an article stating both McGary and Payne won't be participating.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140512/SPORTS0202/305120093/Report…
They are going to have a baloney sandwich eating draft combine contest instead.
I'm happy for them and want them to succeed, but I'm going to miss those three guys.
I read McGary was invited but declined. He said his back was better but still not 100% so he didn't want to go through testing etc.
I heard McGary wasn't going to be participating and that Nik would be doing the testing but none of the position drills.
Did anyone else hear that McGary wasn't participating?
"Spike Albrecht will be replacing McGary in the draft combine."
-Sources
Worst decision to smoke a joint?
A. Mitch McGary
B. Josh Gordon
The rules are ridiculous but man oh man did those guys ever cost themselves a LOT of money by partaking.
But, but, but....it's just weed.
It is just weed. In McGary's case especially, the rule is indefensible.
You can debate the LAW, but you can't debate a rule. Rules are arbitrary by their very nature.
I can't use my work computer to surf pornography sites. If I did, I would be subject to immediate termination. It's the rule, I value my job, so I follow it.
You can be all about the benefits of legalizing pot and I wouldn't argue with you. However, people are free to decide if they value whatever they gain by breaking a rule more than what they gain by obeying it.
I think the punishment is much more indefensible than the rule itself. Yes, marijuana is against the law and I can understand the NCAA wanting to dissociate itself from its use. However, when you suspend a player for a year for using a non-performance enhancing, non-harmful drug, but don't have similar serious penalties for almost any other legal issue (DUI, Larceny, etc.), it becomes a joke.
It only becomes a joke when you create a straw man to prove your point.
Why would you expect the NCAA to individually police every school for criminal offenses? It's redundant, the schools can do that themselves. If minimum penalties for similar offenses are what this board is up in arms about, turn your attention to the schools enforcement instead.
Or better yet, instead of using every opportunity to whine about the big bad NCAA, admit McGary was wrong and move on already.
I don't think anybody thinks that what McGary did was bad but it should be a 3 game suspension max when you look at other punishments for the same crime. See Derrick Nix or the Honey Badger. Do you think a traffic ticket should lead to 5 years in prison for example? The punishment needs to fit the crime.
I am not seeing the straw man here. There is a legitimate question as to why a crime like larceny, with a real, live victim is treated less severely than the victimles crime of smoking weed.
Of course someone can be upset about arbitrary rules with excessive penalties, especially when the enforcement of such a rule essentially forces an athlete to leave school rather than continue attending. Even a half-season penalty keeps the possibility of return open, while a full-season penalty is far more likely to cause McGary and others like him to leave for the pros. For an organization that claims to care about the athletes being "student-athletes," it is a stupid and draconian rule.
You could also get fired cuz you were spending too much time on MGOBLOG. It's likely to be the fact that you aren't doing what you are paid to do as much as what you are looking at. It is a job-based--not necessarily a moral--decision----and hence not arbitrary. In contrast, while it was a rule, McGary's punishment was arbitrary and almost entirely unrelated to his "job" performance.
Not at all job based or production based. My employer has no issue with employees using news based, even sports based, websites. If my director saw me on MGoBlog, there would be no issue, just like the many times I've had gamecast of a Tigers game running when my boss has come to my cube. If I had porntube open, the response would be a ltitle different.
I don't think Mitch cost himself a dime unless you believed he was going to come back next year had he not been suspended. But all the things I've seen pointed to him leaving regardless...so no harm, no foul.
In fact, the great "own-it" response probably helped his stock in the eyes of some....
Not sure what you're reading or where you're getting the idea that he was leaving regardless.
Do you have any link or reference to him saying "if the suspension would have been a few games he probably would have come back?" That would be news to me....
Most if not all of the quotes I've read from McGary are of the "Michigan's been amazing, I love Ann Arbor, I'll always be a Wolverine, but I'm ready for the next step" ilk.
And appealing the suspension is just common sense if there is even a shred of possibility he'll come back. Nothing is lost by the appeal regardless of what decision the NCAA or Mitch makes.
Ok he doesn't say "probably" would have been back if it were a 3 game suspension. He used the term "possibly". My apologies. But nowhere in that excerpt does it indicate that he was "gone regardless" either. I just think that the appeal, coupled with this quote, makes for some decent "tea leaves" that he was on track to stay.
There is no right or wrong here I suppose. Just two different interpretations of the information available.
I remember reading it too.He didn't say that he for sure would have, but it was implied.
...and that has led to his suspension.
This was McGary's first offense and it forced him to quit college basketball.
If I can find the link, I will post the comprehensive dates and times, but I remember reading that the Combine this year will rotate between ESPNU and ESPN2, with ESPNU taking on the first half of coverage on a given day and then handing it to ESPN2 around lunchtime. Those on the blog who intend to watch on Thursday and Friday might find themselves switching stations each time if they watch the whole event.