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Originally Posted by Teroy
My god. The kid was 17. He screwed up. He admitted it. I wonder if some of you would be happy if he was strung up. Look around sports and tell me you don't see players who have behaved as badly. And many of them repeatedly and adults. No one is condoning his actions but a life's sentence isn't warranted.
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The kid himself publicly announced that he wasn't ready to be drafted and was willing to work towards getting ready to prove himself for next year's draft.
There was no reason to force it and definitely no life sentence being imposed.