Alabama shows what really matters by letting Brandon Miller play after link shooting

It wasn’t Ernie Banks who said, “Great day for a kill! Let’s spend two!”?

Brandon Miller – Alabama’s 6-foot-9 star freshman forward – scored 41 points in overtime in South Carolina on Wednesday night. He was worth the price of submission.

Does it matter that Tuscaloosa, Alabama police described Miller as being involved in a shooting homicide near a university campus, saying in a hearing testimony that he handed a Bama teammate the gun that shot the 23-year-old – old mother, Jamie Harris, to death?

Obviously not. At 24-4 and with the NCAA tournament approaching, the Crimson Tide didn’t have time to worry about trivial “distractions” like a kill. After all, thank God it wasn’t a high ankle sprain.

By now, you’re probably familiar with the “broken windows theory” often used by urbanists to describe how neighborhoods go from petty crime to bigger crime until they rot away from an incurable disease.

However, the general theory that small problems beget big problems can be applied to anything from pizzerias to hospitals to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

And Division I college basketball.

Here comes the NCAA Tournament, and with it all day and all night a stream of enthusiastic, conniving, televised courtesies and praises – pure fantasy – associated with the university business, set behind so many broken windows that they can no longer hide the blood , which flows into Fig.

Do you want to be real or do your Punch-Your-Ticket Big Dance bracket pools?

Winning college basketball games at any cost—filling gyms, maximizing the value of television, recruiting new cadres of players who would otherwise have no legitimate business to enroll in any college—is no longer just about simple fraud.

Academic and financial fraud alone will not do what it is used to. So are dishonest coaches, sneaker company payers, and wink-and-nod college presidents who are rewarded with win-and-play stupidity.

Almost in a rush, although you might have seen him going overseas, colleges have chosen to ignore the warning signs by hiring players who potentially pose a clear, real and growing danger to real students, those with legitimate reasons to be on campus. No disqualifications for young guys with guns.

Increasingly, the only thing a recruit receiving a full stipend plus cash benefits has to bring to school is an illegally purchased, carried, or otherwise transported weapon. Or just a gun. Or a fully loaded assault rifle with serial numbers scratched out. It doesn’t have to be his single chamber pistol, it could be his friend from home.

What happened recently at the University of Alabama, until recently better known as a school that recruited felony-prone footballers, was a remnant of what seeped through broken windows in the lobby where the basketball pulpit is located.

All the elements were in place, but none of them were so obvious as to prevent offering full trips plus cash to anyone, anywhere – as long as they could help win basketball games, no other qualifications are needed, not explored. not needed or requested.

So Bama’s 6-foot-9 star freshman, Miller, who is projected to be drafted in the NBA lottery and now averages over 20 points per game, played Wednesday for the Crimson Tide. His former teammate, Darius Miles (who alleges that his “friend” from Washington hometown staged a real shooting near campus after investigators believe Miller delivered a gun to Miles) was charged with being an accessory to the murder, and was therefore quickly abandoned Alabama. He was a scrub anyway, you know?

As for freshman star Miller, coach Nate Oates — just a few weeks ago, toasted the state with a new multi-year, multi-million dollar deal to stay at Bam — has tripped over his tongue since the murder.

On his star freshman’s alleged role in the murder:

“We knew about it. It is impossible to control everything that everyone does outside of training. Nobody knew this would happen. The college kids are gone, Brandon didn’t have any problems, and in this case, he doesn’t have any problems. Wrong place at the wrong time.”

But the “location” in this case was the site of the murder, where at least two of Oates’ recruits are said to have delivered the murder weapon. Just bad luck, coach?

Additionally, Alabama decided not to prosecute Jayden Bradley, another Tide basketball player who investigators said was at the scene of the shooting. Unlike Miles, Bradley averages 22 minutes.

But it’s not what you knew from college basketball games on TV or soon to be told during tournaments, the SEC or the NCAA—it was a season marked by guns and death.

Coban Porter, a security guard at the University of Denver, has been charged with the death of a 42-year-old woman by drunk driving. What the hell happened during and after New Mexico State forward Michael Peake was “lured” into a situation that ended in a shootout and the death of a University of New Mexico student? The NMSU program has since been put on hold due to a separate hazing incident because a lethal shooting involving a player was not enough.

Recruits in Pitt, Canisius, and Eastern Michigan, among others, were charged with illegal concealment of weapons.

There is no recruiting standard or danger that colleges will be subject to to deprive them of a basketball victory that has no intrinsic, useful academic value in the short and long term. But don’t expect Jim Nantz, Ernie Johnson or Clark Kellogg to even bring this up. Expect them to be more like the Crimson Tide fans who gave Miller a standing ovation to kick off Bama’s game on Saturday.

But, as Oates of Alabama might now say, “Being in the wrong place at the wrong time could cost you one or two gun-wielding recruits now involved in the murder.”

Radio interferes with listening

My deepest wish for local baseball fans this season is that Yankees and Mets radio producers and salespeople somehow sell more tolerant, creative, and effective commercial packages for every inning.

What has happened over the last few seasons, especially on Yankees radio, has become an in-game set of dozens of distracting commercials that are read by voices from Susin Waldman to Howie Rose as a systematized annoyance to them and us.

Radio baseball, once a cherished art form, was, like much of The Game, lambasted or abandoned for pennies and dimes. Any improvements—any—would make a big difference.

Hey Jim, refund for MSG viewers?

The fact that MSG Network has decided that its crew announcement rangers will no longer make trips to the west coast to cut costs is great news!

Jimmy Dolan has a mechanism in place to recognize by face, if not by name, every MSG subscriber and every penny saved from Rangers away games, so everything will be returned as another act of good faith!

With the Yankees’ television and radio teams long in need of a refresh, as the latest of George Steinbrenner’s legacy, nothing we’ve heard about or from Justin Shaquille would stand in the way of a welcome change.

Well, Aaron Rodgers has almost reached the status of Kanye West: reduced returns for those who care even a little bit.

Again, who won Terry Bradshaw’s million dollars?

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