A Thought About Cronin's Suspensions

Here's some perspective about the Yancy Gates/Cheikh Mbodj suspensions. (Octavius Ellis' suspension, also 6, is acceptable in my opinion.) LeGarrette Blount, a running back of the Oregon Ducks football team, punched a player after a scuffle in the opening game of the 2009 season against Boise State. He ended up missing eight games that season. Their season was only 13 games long; that equates to missing 61.5% of the season. Gates and Mbodj, on the other hand, only miss six. Their season is 31 games long. That equates to only 19.3% of the season, and in games in which they play their typically horrible out of conference schedule in teams like Wright State (4-6), Radford (3-8), Arkansas Pine-Bluff (1-5), Chicago State (0-9, and they play in the Great West, a conference that gets a bid not the the NCAA, but the CBI!!), and Oklahoma (7-1, but with a soft schedule who's only loss was to unranked Saint Louis). The trio miss ONE Big East game: @ #14 Pittsburgh, which in all likelihood, is a game they would lose with a full team. #FoodForThought