SI/CBS Report on College Football and Crime

I agree the misdemeanor stuff should be overlooked.

 

When will America just accept that it loves football enough to look the other way?

 

Because 80,000 people don't pay $100 each to see someone do a chemistry problem, that's why.

And more importantly, for many kids, athletics are their opportunity to go to colleges they'd have no prayer of going to without athletics.

Smart kids can go to any school they want.

 

Bill Cervone.

 

Add me as one who'd have liked SI to break down the total arrests by misdemeanor/felony. Lumping an arrest for failure to pay parking tickets in with sexual assault is too wide of a net.

 

As we await the HBO/Real Sports report on college football . . . centered, I'll wager, around the great state of Alabama . . .

 

I figure those schools outside of the top 25, the non-BCS schools, might have an even higher rate in that they have to take chances on players bigger schools won't. But I think the main point that should be considered is that schools are providing scholarships to people with criminal backgrounds, some with serious crimes, to comingle with people who expect their kid's college to look after Junior or Missy.
I also suppose that most of these schools may not do background checks on kids, but pretty much know the story on them.

 

It's clear that people asking for a breakdown of the crimes or claiming that "They conveniently forget that a prospects juvenile records won't show up on a background check if a state has a law protecting that" haven't even read the report...

• Of the 277 incidents uncovered, nearly 40 percent involved serious offenses, including 56 violent crimes such as assault and battery (25 cases), domestic violence (6), aggravated assault (4), robbery (4) and sex offenses (3). In addition there were 41 charges for property crimes, including burglary and theft and larceny.

• There were more than 105 drug and alcohol offenses, including DUI, drug possession and intent to distribute cocaine.

...Nor did SI and CBS News have access to juvenile arrest records for roughly 80 percent of the players in the study.

 

It does kind of make you wonder every time there is a protest when some college books a "controversial" figure to appear on campus to give a speech.

 

Remind me again why you - or any other pinhead academic elitist - get to decide who and what is a legitimate student-athlete?

And what constitutes an education?

Do people who study music or art - do they get to be called students?

Or do you have to be good at math and English in order to qualify for some arbitrary standard of what is and what isn't a legitimate student?