What is McKinley Boston thinking?

We are getting too old to climb on to our high horse that often plus any effect is lost by repeatedly doing so but we just have to mount up yet again after the latest we came across from Dr. McKinley Boston, the Athletics Director for New Mexico State.

His latest actually was the final straw for us, resulting in the lengthy post just prior to this one.

As with that post, we want to stress that nowhere have we claimed that he is guilty of any wrongdoing or infraction. No, it's his laissez faire attitude and delayed-if-any reaction/response to the wrongdoing or charges of such towards others under his command. It's his inertia, his responses.

Now he's entitled to act the way he has, it's a choice -- just as anyone has the right to applaud, ignore or take to task such behavior of someone at an institution of higher learning.

Boston's modus operandi of non-interference -- make that a profound arms-length jurisdiction -- in the affairs of his employees and student-athletes with reference to individual conduct is not worthy of the office and title he holds. In the following, he displays such behavior yet again, with his mealy-mouthed offering regarding a New Mexico State student-athlete charged with separate offenses:

"All of the players have acclimated to the community and each other on the basketball team," New Mexico State Athletics Director McKinley Boston said. "Like most young people, if you give them enough time, things tend to work out."

Yes, all is just Shangri-la down in Las Cruces -- except maybe for the pizza deliverer who was hit and then robbed by one of Boston's former basketball players. A hoops star who entered a not guilty plea, who proclaimed his innocence for a year and who eventually admitted his guilt to avoid the possibility of jail time. A hoops star who Boston went to court with after the guilty plea and stated to the judge that it was in the best interests of his student-athlete to be allowed to continue to play basketball at NMSU. A hoops star who was allowed to continue playing during the season in which he was charged because it would have been 'unlike him to break the law' even though after the initial robbery charge, he was also affixed with a bribery offense -- offering money and drugs -- after attempting to get a neighbor to take the fall for him.

Oh yes, and except maybe for the young lady who was the alleged recipient of another of Boston's basketballers untowards behavior.

Young's court dates delayed
Jason Groves
Las Cruces Sun-News
2/28/2008

LAS CRUCES - New Mexico State University freshman guard Jahmar Young had a pair of court dates in Doña Ana County Magistrate Court pushed back.

Young is facing misdemenor charges of indecent exposure and resisting arrest. Both were scheduled for a pre-trial hearing today. The resisting arrest charge was rescheduled for a pre-trial conference on April 3. The indecent exposure case had yet to be rescheduled as of Wednesday.

Young was charged with resisting arrest on Jan. 8 when he turned himself in for a warrant issued after failing to appear for a indecent exposure that allegedly occurred on campus in September 2007.

Young was with the Aggies as the team arrived in Nevada on Wednesday for tonight's Western Athletic Conference game against the Wolfpack. NMSU head coach Marvin Menzies declined to comment as the Aggies prepare for tonight's 8 p.m. game.

"All of the players have acclimated to the community and each other on the basketball team," New Mexico State Athletics Director McKinley Boston said. "Like most young people, if you give them enough time, things tend to work out."

Young has appeared in 14 games for the Aggies this season, starting five. He is one of six NMSU players averaging in double figures with 10.3 points per game. He scored 33 points in a 76-73 victory at Boise State on Jan. 10.

Young missed the first 12 games of the season waiting for academic clearance by the NCAA. His first game was against the University of New Mexico on Dec. 19. He was suspended for one game, the Aggies' 94-71 loss at Hawaii on Jan. 31, after leaving the bench during the Aggies' 100-70 victory over Utah State on Jan. 26.