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Former BU soccer stars show support for Dahlquist family
PEORIA, Ill. -- When former Bradley All-Americans Gavin Glinton and Bryan Namoff met on the soccer pitch for the second time in a week Wednesday, they displayed their support for Danny Dahlquist, a member of the 2007 Bradley Soccer team who was killed in a house fire early Sunday morning.? Prior to the SuperLiga tournament semifinal between D.C. United and the Los Angeles Galaxy Wednesday at the Home Depot Center, Glinton and Namoff posed for a photo displaying undershirts with messages of support for Dahlquist.? (The Bradley SID office is working to obtain a copy of the photo, which was arranged to be taken by Glinton.)?
There are also updates about former BU basketball and baseball players
I haven't chimed in on this yet, maybe we're not supposed to talk about it, but this makes BU look terrible. I have gotten so many calls from family friends at other schools and such. BU is developing a very bad track record with these incidents. I hope sometime soon people learn to be responsible...
I have to agree with ValleyGuy on this one. It's a tragedy, but these sophmoric pranks go on everywhere. I have personal stories and relatives who have told me of things that they had done at that same age that with just a slight twist of fate could have ended in the same tragedy. My hope is that all the you tube, funniest home video & jackass generation of fans see in this tragedy just how fragile life can be and maybe will think twice.
Again all my prayers go to the familys and kids involved, but most of all the Dahlquist family.
I haven't chimed in on this yet, maybe we're not supposed to talk about it, but this makes BU look terrible. I have gotten so many calls from family friends at other schools and such. BU is developing a very bad track record with these incidents. I hope sometime soon people learn to be responsible...
I'm not sure I agree - but I'm willing to hear you out.
I'm not sure I see a "track record" of "these incidents" or how this makes BU look terrible. Any feedback I've heard is that people think it's a tragic event and could have happened anywhere - please elaborate.
This is the second time in less than 5 years the BU has had an alcohol related death that has made national news. With an undergraduate population of 5,000? I understand many here are BU apologists, and I absolutely love Bradley University, but two deaths in 5 years? That is unbelievable, to me thats the beginning of a 'track record.'
I have raised the question before as to why it seems to happen so often.
Just take D-I college basketball.....or you could take football, but the other sports just don't seem to have the same problems.
There are roughly 330 X 13 scholarship D-I basketball players, a little over 4000. Yet we read of a couple incidents almost every single week, generally involving alcohol, bar fights, shootings, and drugs and other crimes.
Some people have argued that the ratio of such acts is no higher in athletes than among the general college students, but I beg to differ. If that were the case, then a college with 25,000 students would have so many of these reports, it would be staggering.
Maybe NFL football and college football have even more than basketball, but as I said the sheer numbers of reports we read of legal problems among this relatively small population is hard to reason.
Of course Illinois has had its share but just this past several weeks two different Missouri players have been involved in bar shootings and assaults with guns.
Any given day, either some college football or basketball player is in the news.
Nope, there's something going on, not just that they are under a bigger microscope. College coaches like Eddie Sutton and Bob Huggins actively recruited some of these thugs, almost as if to reward them for being troublemakers.
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