Pretty quiet from the "plugged in" Caravan faithful....
I've obviously known for a couple days about this and I'll give my two cents. The infraction in question is MC wore pants a practice before they were supposed to wear pants.....if they messed up and got caught, own it. If this is not what it seems, explain it. Let this be done and see what happens. In my line of business Ive learned one thing, there are two sides to every story and in the middle lies the truth. So we'll see what happens. Heavy are the eyes on he who wears the crown. I'm 100% certain many other programs, private and public, wore full pads but you know the drill.
I know some of you may enjoy MC getting hammered on a serious charge but what punishment would fit this infraction? Probably a game suspension. Would it really deserve much more? Due diligence will be done and we'll see. If anyone thinks this is more then a minor infraction then that's your right, but if it happened to another program it wouldn't blink many eyes.
I'd tell them the same I would tell my kids. You messed you own it, I don't care what your friends did, you got caught. Ground them based on the infraction and move the hell on.
This will probably turn into Inflate Gate High School Version because it's MC but this gave no advantage to MC. IF they wore pants a day early, wear shorts an extra day, hold out your wrist and take the slap.