[The_Media_never_lie]

2) Was no one at either of those institutes of higher learning smart enough to explain to those over grown, petted and pampered “athletes” what could happen if they screwed up in a communist country? Paging Otto Warmbier.

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If you were the HBC and cared about the welfare of the young men on your team, do you think you might mention what might happen in the outside chance one of them might misbehave?

I am actually wondering how many times they were warned......

[oldvirginian]

“I am actually wondering how many times they were warned......”

Probably many times.
The problem is the athletes have gotten away with so much back home that the warnings meant nothing to them.
Their parents and coaches covered for them in HS and college so they think rules don’t apply to them in the wider world.

As my dad said “Hard heads make for soft asses”.