Pair’s court date rescheduled

I was reading an article the other day about the scout who signed Clay Buchholz, and it mentioned that while at McNeese St., he got in trouble for stealing some laptops with a friend. Obviously, things are going pretty well for Buchholz now, which just goes to show that if these young men work hard and learn from the things they've done and it becomes obvious that they just made a bad mistake, their lives and possibly careers can be salvaged. I know nothing about either player personally, but hopefully they both take responsibility, take their punishment, and move on to getting their lives back on track.

He was in high school when he stole the laptops

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Originally posted by TripleDad:
He was in high school when he stole the laptops

Oh ok, the story I read implied that they were stolen while he was at McNeese State and that the charges were the reason he left McNeese. Regardless, the point is the same. If they learn their lesson and do their time, hopefully they can get things back on track.

In my mind stealing a laptop is looked upon by too many as a minor offense. If they had stolen a car we would be all over their asse and portraying them as hardcore criminals. I work in IT at the Univ of WI and watching the post-affects of students whos laptops have been stolen, this crime is often related to identity theft/fraud. They should be proecuted to the full extent of the law and any school who accepts them as students should identify them as felons and deal with them accordingly.

Sorry for the outburst but this is not something that should just "go away".

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Originally posted by rz1:
In my mind stealing a laptop is looked upon by too many as a minor offense. If they had stolen a car we would be all over their asse and portraying them as hardcore criminals. I work in IT at the Univ of WI and watching the post-affects of students whos laptops have been stolen, this crime is often related to identity theft/fraud. They should be proecuted to the full extent of the law and any school who accepts them as students should identify them as felons and deal with them accordingly.

Sorry for the outburst but this is not something that should just "go away".

I never meant to imply that these charges should just go away, so I hope I didn't. My point is that if they do their time and prove that this was a horrible mistake that they'll never make again, they can still lead good lives and possibly even continue their baseball careers.

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Originally posted by Emanski's Heroes:
I never meant to imply that these charges should just go away, so I hope I didn't.

Not at all pointed towards you and my reply was not as a result of your post. Campus life has an entity of it's own and the general public does not recognize that. I've lived in both of those worlds for 27 years. Computer theft, identity fraud, fake ids, illegal downloads, threating e-mail, plagiarism, and other offenses that main stream society might consider misdemeanors, are grounds for expulsion on campus. We have gone for years with athletes living above the rules. Students and academia are tired of it and with the spiraling cost of college education the student/athlete will be pushed even further into the spotlight.

Just like the steroid issue where a few "bad apples" are giving all the apples a bad name, the "special case" athlete also has a rebound affect on college athletes in general.

Sorry again if I hijacked this thread.