Illinois had a player commit a felony, almost killed a teammate because he was driving with a blood alcohol level that was sky-high, and spend time in the slammer, and the Journal Star wrote mostly supportive articles about how he was punished enough by having to see his friend go through his injury, and missing games. In fact, the PJS did an article that was very flattering about how he has tried to turn his life around and use this terrible incident as a postive force to teach others about driving drunk.
Never did any PJ Star writer ask or demand that Bruce Weber punish the kid. In fact, he was never suspended, and 6 months passed before the coach announced that he would simply redshirt a year, and return with no suspension and with full eligibility for his remaining 2 years.
By comparison, Bradley's basketball team had the one incident with a player getting a speeding ticket, and underaged drinking, and you would have thought he murdered several people. Kirk Wessler demanded stronger punishment; several more articles were written about the matter and how the coach failed to discipline his players properly, and the entire program was branded a "renegade program".
And don't forget, we have had several DUIs by the state school in Normal with virtually no punishment at all, and the PJS has basically never mentioned those. Why was there no call for more severe punishment?
In fact, Mr. Wessler scolded his readers that anyone who tries to make a distinction between felonies at Illinois, multiple DUI's at ISU, and these far less serious issues involving Bradley basketball players is "splitting hairs". What a joke!
If you can't see that there has been a stark difference in how these writers have reacted to these situations (especially since the Illinois one was far more serious), then you have to be blind or biased.
