They are semi-pro basketball players.

Posted on: December 7, 2016 at 17:01:49 CT

Don't give me a bunch of bull**** about how they are students and how you care about their education. You wouldn't have a damn clue who they were if they weren't basketball players. They were brought here to play basketball for this University in a multi-million dollar business.

And that sure is a hot-take about not tolerating the Derrick Washigton's and Mike Dixon's of the world. I don't think any fan would want us to win if it meant we had a sexual predator on the team. But it's not one or the other choice. You can get good basketball players and good people. We have done it for many years in the past.

You make it sound like Kim took over a prison league team. He didn't. And I would be careful putting these players on a pedestal because you don't know them personally or what their past or future holds. They say the right things on social media but so did Mike Dixon. Derrick Washington was a model student athlete until his problems. Any of these guys could get in trouble with the law or they could be squeaky clean for 4 years. No one knows but the kid what kind of choices they are going to make during their time at Mizzou.

Edited by tgr at 17:03:32 on 12/07/16