Isn't it only a basketball game?

Many college basketball junkies out there may have witnessed the Cincinnati-Xavier basketball game this past week. If you did, you witnessed an absolute blowout by Xavier on their home court. In this case, you also saw a massive bench-clearing brawl after one of the cincinnati players decided to punch on of the Xavier players after he felt he was shoved.

This is where I wish I could just look inside one's head to see the actual though process behind what they're doing. The only way I can imagine it going through his head is by first recognizing everything that is going on around him.
"I've played like a pussy, we're down by 27 points, and we're on the road"
Next..
"He did just shove me"
Next..
*Replays first step*
Finally..
"I'm gonna hit him"

It just baffles me as to what he thought he was going to get out of this. Do you think you're going to be able to quiet down the crowd by punching the player on the opposing team that has outplayed you all night? Do you think that's going to make the crowd think twice about disrespecting you? Or, do you think it's actually just going to give them rightful reason to make an asshole out of you as you're escorted off the court by security and into the locker room. I think the third one sounds about right.

But the real problem is this. We are at a point today where every kid that finds out they have some skills throws everything out the window besides playing AAU. The thought of too many kids today is, I don't need school, I got my AAU team and my coach is gonna get me to Kentucky or Syracuse. I wont have to go to class, I just have to go for a year, maybe two, then go get paid $10 million to go shoot a basketball.

This process just makes bad people. It's simple. They make one dimensional, stupid, bad people.
It turns good kids into idiots who don't have enough common sense to realize that they should finish the game and go back to the locker room when they are down 27 points to their rival on the road, instead of looking for the closest opportunity to prove that, while you can't make free throws, you can throw a punch.