Post by uwmfan04 on Mar 22, 2005 23:55:12 GMT -6
From what it sounds like, Bruce is the only person to do something wrong in the last 16 years. A quick google search with an Illinois' players name and arrest brings up quite a few interesting stories...For Example:
Luther Head: November 2003- Burglary / suspended for 4 games (2 of them were exhibition)...Looks like he is very "lucky" that charges were not pressed.
Excerpt:
"Brown (Victim) dialed 911 as the intruders walked out tucking DVDs into their clothes on their way to packing the stolen merchandise into the trunk of their car. After a night of drinking, police reports allege, the men walked into the apartment complex looking for a party and walked out carrying 26 DVDs, PlayStation and Xbox game systems, two backpacks, a pair of dress shoes and $200.
Head never has denied being among the group of at least five young men, including teammate Richard McBride and former Illini player Aaron Spears, who entered the apartment and took as much as $3,000 worth of goods.
The contrast between the way Illinois coach Bruce Weber handled the incident--he suspended Head and two teammates for four games but welcomed them back to the team--and the disposition of criminal cases involving other Big Ten basketball players is still bothersome to some people here.
Fifteen months after the Champaign burglary, critics still question the former prosecutor's decision not to go forward with the case and whether he intimidated the young victims into not bringing charges against Head and his companions. The prosecutor, John Piland, lost his bid for re-election as Champaign County State's Attorney, in part because his opponent made his handling of the case a campaign issue...
Overcoming that brought us closer as a team," Head said the other day at practice.
Weber suspended Head and the other players involved for four games, two of them exhibitions. They avoided further legal jeopardy because the victims agreed not to file charges after Piland warned them they would face intense media scrutiny."
"Piland had a simple question for the five roommates as they considered whether to file charges against the men who invaded their apartment and stole their belongings.
"Do you want to be like Steve Bartman?" the former state's attorney asked them.
"Then, his exact words were, `This is going to be a media [fire]storm,"' Solomon Brown recalled.
Reporters had interviewed the students before the police report was in Piland's hands, and Piland envisioned the media attention increasing. The prospect of being known as the guys who derailed the Illinois basketball season did not appeal to several of the roommates.
Already, someone had left a piece of cheese at the roommates' door, a none-too-subtle message that they would be considered rats if they proceeded.
Still, the five students could not arrive at a consensus.
"A couple of us really wanted to press charges and a couple of us didn't," Brown said. "The ones who didn't never experienced the fear of being awakened in the middle of the night by guys breaking into your house."
Whole Article at : www.chicagotribune.com/news/...ack=2&cset=true
OR www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11286
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ALSO:
Head gets fine, public service for traffic offenses
www.news-gazette.com/localnews/story.cfm?Number=15779
Luther Head: November 2003- Burglary / suspended for 4 games (2 of them were exhibition)...Looks like he is very "lucky" that charges were not pressed.
Excerpt:
"Brown (Victim) dialed 911 as the intruders walked out tucking DVDs into their clothes on their way to packing the stolen merchandise into the trunk of their car. After a night of drinking, police reports allege, the men walked into the apartment complex looking for a party and walked out carrying 26 DVDs, PlayStation and Xbox game systems, two backpacks, a pair of dress shoes and $200.
Head never has denied being among the group of at least five young men, including teammate Richard McBride and former Illini player Aaron Spears, who entered the apartment and took as much as $3,000 worth of goods.
The contrast between the way Illinois coach Bruce Weber handled the incident--he suspended Head and two teammates for four games but welcomed them back to the team--and the disposition of criminal cases involving other Big Ten basketball players is still bothersome to some people here.
Fifteen months after the Champaign burglary, critics still question the former prosecutor's decision not to go forward with the case and whether he intimidated the young victims into not bringing charges against Head and his companions. The prosecutor, John Piland, lost his bid for re-election as Champaign County State's Attorney, in part because his opponent made his handling of the case a campaign issue...
Overcoming that brought us closer as a team," Head said the other day at practice.
Weber suspended Head and the other players involved for four games, two of them exhibitions. They avoided further legal jeopardy because the victims agreed not to file charges after Piland warned them they would face intense media scrutiny."
"Piland had a simple question for the five roommates as they considered whether to file charges against the men who invaded their apartment and stole their belongings.
"Do you want to be like Steve Bartman?" the former state's attorney asked them.
"Then, his exact words were, `This is going to be a media [fire]storm,"' Solomon Brown recalled.
Reporters had interviewed the students before the police report was in Piland's hands, and Piland envisioned the media attention increasing. The prospect of being known as the guys who derailed the Illinois basketball season did not appeal to several of the roommates.
Already, someone had left a piece of cheese at the roommates' door, a none-too-subtle message that they would be considered rats if they proceeded.
Still, the five students could not arrive at a consensus.
"A couple of us really wanted to press charges and a couple of us didn't," Brown said. "The ones who didn't never experienced the fear of being awakened in the middle of the night by guys breaking into your house."
Whole Article at : www.chicagotribune.com/news/...ack=2&cset=true
OR www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11286
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ALSO:
Head gets fine, public service for traffic offenses
www.news-gazette.com/localnews/story.cfm?Number=15779