Re: Register Exclusive: ISU asks Supreme Court to keep Palo off men's basketball team
Everyone who thinks this is about what Bubu did or did not do at this point is blind to what the actual issues are. This case (like many cases) is about procedure and rights. The AG is not asking the Iowa Supreme Court to weigh in on if Bubu violated the student conduct code. This is all about the BOR appealing the right for the President of a regent institution to enforce a code of conduct at their university.
Look at Miranda vs Arizona as an example. Miranda raped an 18 year old. The Miranda case found his confession inadmissible because he wasn't informed of his rights. Result, his initial conviction was overturned on a procedural technicality. The case didn't go to the US supreme court about Miranda doing or not doing something to the victim.
Same thing is happening here. This case is about Iowa State's right to allow or not allow students to be members of the athletic teams and the board of regents right to uphold that decision.
Iowa State has always had, and always will have, the right to boot anyone off their athletic teams if they choose. That has not changed.
Just as.... the student has his or her right to appeal that decision as well. They have rights too.
So Bubu used his right to appeal, and won. At that point, the BOR, Leath, and JP can just accept the courts ruling or they can fight it. Here's where they screwed up royally IMO. Their big fat egos couldn't handle that little ole' Bubu Palo took them on and won. They expected him to crawl away with his tail between his legs and give up.
Well, it didn't work that way. And so now they are actually going down the path of not putting their support behind a student athlete that the courts said should be allowed to play. NOT GOOD. This will damage recruiting beyond belief IMO.
All another head coach has to tell a recruit is that at their school the administration supports it's players and fights for their rights, while at Iowa State they don't support you.
Way to go Leath and JP!! Do they not realize that the BOR is basically Hawkeye lovers and they know the damage this will do to us? I just hope Leath and JP aren't known as the two that brought our athletic department to it's knees?
