The public press conference today with the suspended UCLA players making apology statements and coach Alford also making a statement.
The players are currently suspended indefinitely from all team activities, including workouts or practices. But are being allowed to stay enrolled in school and continue their academics.
My rough guess on 'best case' for these 3 young men. I think the remainder of the Fall semester minimum they will be out of basketball. But if they do everything they are told and don't even spit on a side walk somewhere, maybe start of Spring semester would be allowed back on the team and participate again in practices.
Obviously, they would be significantly behind at that point so it would probably take some decent time after rejoining practices (and again them remaining angel citizens) for them to be in a position to actually enter a game. So I'd be a bit surprised if any of these guys sniffed a court until maybe February at earliest and it wouldn't surprise me at all if they end up sitting out the entire season. Maybe redshirting or a transfer might also happen, but we'll see.
This was obviously a very unusually PUBLIC embarrassment to the school and pulled in everybody from the coaches to the AD to the Pac-12 commissioner to the U.S. State department to even POTUS. So while they are not getting expelled or losing their scholarship apparently, which they should feel lucky about, I don't think they are going to get off very 'light' in this either.
The players are currently suspended indefinitely from all team activities, including workouts or practices. But are being allowed to stay enrolled in school and continue their academics.
My rough guess on 'best case' for these 3 young men. I think the remainder of the Fall semester minimum they will be out of basketball. But if they do everything they are told and don't even spit on a side walk somewhere, maybe start of Spring semester would be allowed back on the team and participate again in practices.
Obviously, they would be significantly behind at that point so it would probably take some decent time after rejoining practices (and again them remaining angel citizens) for them to be in a position to actually enter a game. So I'd be a bit surprised if any of these guys sniffed a court until maybe February at earliest and it wouldn't surprise me at all if they end up sitting out the entire season. Maybe redshirting or a transfer might also happen, but we'll see.
This was obviously a very unusually PUBLIC embarrassment to the school and pulled in everybody from the coaches to the AD to the Pac-12 commissioner to the U.S. State department to even POTUS. So while they are not getting expelled or losing their scholarship apparently, which they should feel lucky about, I don't think they are going to get off very 'light' in this either.