Timing is as ideal as possible to your point. Personally, I can't see how you let him come back after the suspension earlier (which may have been a second transgression already I thought either you had said or somebody else), then this. That said, and, again...you likely know better and more, and, no doubt that Woodson does...maybe if he does not come back, something worse happens for/with him.
Like say, I just don't see how you can build with/around a guy that just does not seem to fit what they are trying to do there and get back to...the days of Todd Meier and Steve Alford are in the past, but, it still should mean something to play there...there were any number of knuckleheads with Sampson for which it didn't, and, it seemed like there were some similar such guys this past year, including, to me at least, Johnson.
The kid can play...he was outstanding down the stretch for the most part...but, he just makes bad decisions...a lot...on the floor, and, off. He was fortunate that this did not turn out worse, and, to your point, the same could be said about Gillis and his transgression...I am confident though that there would be no question with respect to Gillis' status should something else have happened...Painter has been very clear on that in the past, and, taken action multiple times that were not in his, or his team's, best interest.
One thing we can/will agree on is that a lot of 18-21 year-old kids do a lot of dumb stuff...that said, when you are in the position(s) that they are as student-athletes and representatives of the program at major Universities, there is more that is expected, and, less allowance generally for such dumb things.
I don't want to put the cart before the horse, but, Pack to Purdue has traction...a lot of it...to the point admittedly now that I would be very surprised if it did not happen.
