OaktownBear said:
CT thinks they have a 4 year right to play on the team, so not letting them play on a team they are not qualified for is putting them through hell.
I'm not happy that Jones missed this badly on recruiting 2 guys, but that is a competency issue, not an ethical one. If there is any evidence he is humiliating them or trying to make their lives miserable, I'd like to know because I'd want him fired immediately. Selecting his roster based on ability is not that. They are either Cal students in which case they take an awesome scholarship that they now get with no further work, or they are basketball players and they go somewhere else. It's a choice. Cal has lived up to its bargain whether it is the what these two hoped for or not.
1. You're damn straight I feel they have a right to be on the team for 4 years (minus transgressions which we haven't heard of). Isn't that what's written in the contract? There isn't a clause that says if you suck you are out. Perhaps there should be.
2. how F'ing stupid is it to cut them from the team ONLY BECAUSE they aren't as good as guys that Jones wanted more and they won't leave?
3. Jones is stupid to have used the "banished from team" move in retailiation for them not acquiescing and leaving, because he will have two fewer players in practice and on the bench. Well, I suppose he could get an unlimited (?) number of walk-ones to take their place. I guess that was his trade-off, and he could care less.