Why?

A certain Cedar Rapids TV station reported last night that a Linn-Mar high school basketball player was cited for having a disorderly house. There was drinking going on, however he was not drinking nor did he supply any of it. I am not going to make this into a everyone hates Linn-Mar post, quite frankly that's nothing new.

This is going to sound wrong but he was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it would not have been his house he would have been released with no charges or citations. Some people say that he has to sit and he is done. This is also wrong according to state and school policy if he did not test positive for alcohol then he did nothing wrong. This makes it completely up to coach Robertson on what to do, I imagine that would include not starting Wednesday night but we will find out.

I do not know how this got reported. I understand yes a star high school basketball player had a party that there was drinking at and that is somewhat of a story, but the story was not reported well in my opinion. In my own opinion if you are going to report this you better report every other high school party that gets broken up by the cops in which athletes are present, it happens at every school INCLUDING private and christian/catholic schools. I think a better way to report this would have been in a story outlining how much of a problem it is.

How do I know all this? I just graduated from Linn-Mar and due to the anti-alcohol and drug organizations I was part of I have had several conversations with school officials about what school and state policies are and what the consequences are. Being a recent graduate I also know that this happens at every other school and if you think it doesn't or that there were not students or athletes from other schools at that party you are blind and ignorant. Most of these players are on club teams and are very close friends even though they go to other schools. Basically just because it was a party at a house of Lion player doesn't mean there were not people from other schools as well.

I do understand the situation and that it happened the weekend before state. None of us will ever know the entire situation or what happened. For all we know he tried to get the people with the alcohol to leave. Overall I believe this situation has gotten blown WAY out of proportion. If given the chance I would love to sit down with the reporter who did the story and just discuss everything, and yes I would be calm and understanding of all points I would just emphasize that the all the facts were not reported which is causing this to spiral out of control, if by chance anyone at that station reads this I would like to hear your side of this as well and will be in Cedar Rapids next week if you would like to meet. Other than that I hope the boys can put this behind them for now and play some great ball in Des Moines. GO LIONS!!! GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!