Hopefully he turns it around, but his grades had to be really bad for him not to be on academic suspension following 1 semester of school. Those situations usually aren't when a kid has struggled academically, the school will usually only skip the whole "academic suspension" thing if the student is completely blowing off school.
Now, I agree, I like the way Kill has handled academics thus far, but this was completely out of his control. McDonald is no longer in school. Hopefully he can turn it around, it's happened quite a bit. We've seen it with three of our better players last year in HAgeman, Carter and Stoudemire who struggled academically and had to take some time off. All of those guys rebounded to be huge parts of our team. Hopefully, for the Gophers, the same can be said for McDonald one day.
As far as the snide comment about him working at McDonald's, I always wonder why someone would take pot shots at an 18-19 year old kid whose life is heading in the wrong direction. There is no evidence of this kid doing anything malicious or being a terror to society, he sounds like an immature kid who is blowing golden ticket. At worst case scenario (he never comes back), it's more sad than anything.
