Bubu Suing ISU
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Have you ever had to look for a one-armed man who murdered your wife and set you up to take the fall?
After reading through the majority of comments here, it occurred to me that one of the overriding problems with this whole mess is an utter lack of personal responsibility. And this is an issue that goes far beyond one he said-she said case in Iowa.
Nobody likes admitting they are or did wrong. When we make bad decisions - whether clouded by alcohol (or other stimuli) or not - our first reaction is to figure out a way to cover it up. Which generally requires lying. And then the problem is compounded.
It sounds like all parties involved would be better served by either telling the whole truth (yeah, a pipe dream, I know) or simply living with the fact that a bad decision changed their lives in a very profound way.
Nobody likes admitting they are or did wrong. When we make bad decisions - whether clouded by alcohol (or other stimuli) or not - our first reaction is to figure out a way to cover it up. Which generally requires lying. And then the problem is compounded.
It sounds like all parties involved would be better served by either telling the whole truth (yeah, a pipe dream, I know) or simply living with the fact that a bad decision changed their lives in a very profound way.
You should go up-thread; people absolutely claimed she was asking for it because she was texting him earlier in the day. Others claimed that she was drunk, so she was also at fault.
If you've googled "D-league money," it's about $20k - $25k per season. Let's say he's making $20k per season. Let's pretend that he would have developed enough that he would have been at the top of the D-league pack (that's implying that he's better than players with abilities similar to Royce). That would mean a loss of about $5k per year. THE TRAGEDY.
And let's pretend that he's good enough to play overseas. (Which is fairly laughable, at this point. As a point of comparison, DeAndre Kane is playing overseas - I think you'll have a hard time comparing Bubu's stats with Kane's.) He's been training and playing with developing NBA players for a couple of years - if he were so good, why hasn't he been recruited to play overseas now? What's stopping him?
I'm not going to even address the possibility of him making an NBA team, because that's so far-fetched that it's ridiculous to even compare.
Have you seen reports from him or anyone else about people scouting him, about any offers? If ISU didn't even offer him, and he was in their own backyard, who else was lining up to do so?
That isn't to say that he wasn't good enough to receive an offer/should have; it is saying that he wasn't playing until ISU let him walk on.
So much of this thread is speculation and hyperbole and not legal.
Whether or not Bubu did something that he should not have or whether or not the woman lied is something only the two of them know.
Legally, he was wronged...whether you believe everything that led up to that doesn't matter.
It impacted him in a negative manner. None of you know definitively what it may have or may not have cost him.
ISU was a part of that negative impact. Now he's asking the courts to help determine what that cost is worth.
The one thing I'm happy to be reminded of is how many NBA scouts we have on the site.
Whether or not Bubu did something that he should not have or whether or not the woman lied is something only the two of them know.
Legally, he was wronged...whether you believe everything that led up to that doesn't matter.
It impacted him in a negative manner. None of you know definitively what it may have or may not have cost him.
ISU was a part of that negative impact. Now he's asking the courts to help determine what that cost is worth.
The one thing I'm happy to be reminded of is how many NBA scouts we have on the site.
2.9 ppg, 1.4 assists per game, 1.4 rebounds per game
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7.0 ppg, 3.0 assists per game, 2.5 rebounds per game
First stat line playing against college players. Second stat line playing against professionals. This year he is scoring 11.8 ppg.
I don't think you understand what "compare his stats against someone successful in the NBA" means.
I don't think you understand what "people can get paid for playing basketball in leagues other than the NBA" means.
I really hope there is no settlement. Leath reached a different conclusion than the ALJ using the ALJ's findings of fact. Might as well rehash those findings of fact in open court Bubu.
All true, but leah screwed up when he reversed an ALJ who cleared Bubu and he was already playing after he had charges dropped. He had no pressure in this case to take those actions (at least publically, no doubt he did internally). I think he acted in a way that lacked courage and instead just went with the action that would appease some faculty.
What's preventing him from going to Europe? Or finding a job with his degree?
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If saying someone got screwed over and has the right to sue makes them a saint, then yes, people in this thread think Bubu is a saint.
They owe him a year and a half of D League wage IMO. Not that hard to figure out since he was delayed from graduation to playing there.
Some people sure come off as Bubu fanboys when this thread arises. He definitely has the right to sue, but there's a lot of energy spent defending someone who at the least was stupid and at the worst is a sexual offender.
the negative stigma of being accused as a rapist, kicked off a Div.1 bball team and then let go?
Not sure who you hire but in most industries, HR tends to do things like background checks and weird stuff like that...and whether or not it's legal to do so, people don't get hired or get the benefit of the doubt when things like that happen to them.
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