Here's a question. If the inappropriate pot arrest hadn't be part of this, is the noise complaint even a story?
BDJ had 5 other complaints, and I don't think anyone heard about that nor was he suspended for those. Five does seem pretty excessive. So if he was gonna be suspended for noise, why not do it at the second complaint, or 3rd, 4th, or 5th? Why is the 6th now the magic number?
The answer is he shouldn't, its a stupid noise complaint, he should pay whatever fines and have Hoiberg deal with it internally.
I don't know why people think he was suspended for a noise complaint. He was suspended because he was given multiple chances, had a meeting with the cops and his coach which laid out an agreement going forward and he couldn't keep out of trouble.
Maybe Fred is to blame for not serving a harsher penalty sooner, but to me it sounds like Fred understood what is like to be a college student and understood things like that happen. He also trusted that Bryce was adult enough to behave when he got close to crossing the line and Bryce failed to be an adult in that case.
Its like a guy who gets 2 speeding tickets. Both speeding tickets were pretty minor, but he knows that if he gets a third one, he loses his license for a year. Then the guy gets a ticket for going 30 in a 25. Sure, he was barely speeding and the cop is kind of a jerk for giving it to him, but why the hell would you even risk going 5 over if the consequences were losing your license.
It wouldn't surprise me that if after the meeting with the cops, Fred told Bryce that one more issue like that leads to a missing a game.
I would imagine that Bryce is on a real short leash now.
