It's getting to the point now where maybe we should just forget college basketball players' indiscretions, unless they're major, life-changing, I-might-have-murdered-that-guy-on-the-side-of-the-highway errors. Anything less seems pretty immaterial, no? Not that I'm complaining. That's cool with me. It's just, that's the way it is, right?

What am I talking about? Most recently, I'm referring to Louisville starters Terrence Jennings and Jerry Smith, and their collective decision to get in a fight (or scuffle, or security disagreement, or whatever you want to call it) with police officers at a bar in Jeffersonville, Ind. The two plead guilty yesterday to resisting law enforcement and were given one-year suspended prison sentences, probation, and ordered to do 40 hours of community service each.

Neither player will be forced by the law to miss any basketball in the coming season. Meanwhile, Louisville coach Rick Pitino has already made it clear the duo will not miss any game time. So, if Pitino isn't forcing them to sit, and the Jeffersonville city judge isn't forcing them to sit, Jennings and Smith will go on with their 2009-10 season as if nothing ever happened. As if that whole "fighting cops" thing was just a fever dream.

Again, I'm not saying I have a problem with this. I'm basically cool with it. People fight cops all the time; people get drunk and do stupid things even more than that. I've been there. It happens. I don't judge. If Pitino thinks (though Pitino's opinion on punishment for wrongdoing is not exactly our most trustworthy, is it?) the two deserve to play, fine. I'm not going to complain one bit. I have nothing invested in this.

But when two starters at an elite college basketball program get arrested for resisting arrest, it seems like a big deal. We all cover it and discuss it accordingly. And yet in terms of basketball -- which is why we make it a big deal in the first place, right? -- it's not a big deal at all. Literally nothing has changed here. That's a good thing for Louisville fans. It's maybe a bit disorienting for the rest of us.

Related: Ill-behaved People, Big East Basketball