It's already been a tough, up-and-down, season for my Bradley Braves. A couple of days ago a sophomore point guard, Eddren McCain, abruptly left the program. It's not all that uncommon, and I'd figured it was because he got little playing time in the latter half of his second season (having lost the starting role he'd played himself into in the second half of his freshman year). However, rumors started running around that he'd not just left the team, but left the school... It would make no sense to leave campus in the middle of a semester, and as it turns out, where there's smoke there's fire. He was arrested a couple of days before leaving the team on drug-related charges based on getting arrested with his stripper girlfriend. Reported on the Peoria Journal Star website here.
It's too bad. He'd seemed like a good kid, and had a real tough life up to the time he'd come to Bradley. The couple of times I ran into him he seemed like a shy but nice young man. I'm sure it's easy to get yourself into trouble like this, and I hope he managed to find his way out of trouble.
It's not the first drama or legal issue we've had on the team, and I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect the coach to be able to head all of this stuff off... But I'm sure with some of the problems we've had the coach had little he could do other than kick him off the team for charges as serious as these are.
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