Anybody with a brain knows that whole story was bullshit. Watching Rudy on a Friday night, at his age at the time (or any age), doesn't motivate you to go and put gym shoes in your locker. Of all of the concocted fabrications of this event, this was clearly the most ridiculous, and yet nobody questioned it.
As I've said before, we can't figure out what the hell happened that night, for real, until we know why the hell he was there, for real.
And if he was hammered, who could blame him? I'd have to be hammered to watch Rudy, myself.