01-09-2012, 07:48 AM
Stumbled over an odd UCLA factoid;
UCLA announced yesterday that TE Ray Nelson had been suspended and eventually dismissed from the team for an undisclosed incident prior to the Bruins' bowl game vs. Illinois.
Well, stuff happens. Except....
A month earlier, Ray's brother-- Reeves-- had been kicked off the Bruin basketball team. He'd served a 5-game suspension for missing a team meeting and other reportedly insubordinate behavior, and then apparently acted out while benched during an early Dec. game vs. Texas.  As if that weren't punishment enough, he's currently playing basketball in...Lithuania.
I can't recall any similar incident of brothers being kicked off teams at the same school. Probably doesn't matter. The way things work in the Los Angeles sports hierarchy, insulted Tro jans will claim that they hold the record, trotting out proof that they once suspended three brothers and a sister in a period of 21 days.
UCLA announced yesterday that TE Ray Nelson had been suspended and eventually dismissed from the team for an undisclosed incident prior to the Bruins' bowl game vs. Illinois.
Well, stuff happens. Except....
A month earlier, Ray's brother-- Reeves-- had been kicked off the Bruin basketball team. He'd served a 5-game suspension for missing a team meeting and other reportedly insubordinate behavior, and then apparently acted out while benched during an early Dec. game vs. Texas.  As if that weren't punishment enough, he's currently playing basketball in...Lithuania.
I can't recall any similar incident of brothers being kicked off teams at the same school. Probably doesn't matter. The way things work in the Los Angeles sports hierarchy, insulted Tro jans will claim that they hold the record, trotting out proof that they once suspended three brothers and a sister in a period of 21 days.