SI/CBS Report on College Football and Crime

OK, so of Pitt's 22 arrests or Boise State's 18 arrests - please tell me how many fit into the category of real crimes?

 

Schools are also admitting kids who go on to deal drugs, kill and rape other students.

If you're going to background check athletes you sure as shit better check everybody else.

 

The part of America that loves football has.

It's the part that hates it that is pissed about it.

 

I think there is a difference between a school giving a full-ride to someone as opposed to someone paying their own way. In one case the school is making an effort to bring someone on campus. Do athletes have higher or lower crime rates than other students? I don't know - I just know that with the exception of the service academies where all the students are effectively on scholarship - schools aren't going out of their way to get most of the students to attend.

 

So.....2,837 players and 204 have criminal records?

College presidents, ADs, and coaches should be THRILLED. Pretty sure the over/under was at least 794.5.

 

Agreed. That seems to be an awfully low number compared to the rest of the student population. Cripes, how many kids are arrested every semester on Drunk and Disorderly, DUI, Drug selling/possession, ect?

 

But SI/CBS threw all that time and money into the project, they had to do whatever it took to make the final numbers seen ASTONISHING (in a negative way).

They knew what they wanted to write about. They just wanted the numbers to prove it. When they didn't get the numbers they wanted, ah, fuck it, we'll slant it the way we wanted anyway.

Yay journalism!

 

That was my initial thought. Seven percent is probably lower than the average student body population at most of these schools, or at least no higher. Take, for instance, my alma mater, which had roughly 25,000 students. At 7 percent, you're looking at about 1,750 having been arrested/cited at some point in time. Not that hard to fathom.

Edit: Shoddy math.

 

Except, of course, university leaders are constantly touting the fact they do everything they can to see that they keep their student body safe. If they really mean what they say, they'd background check everybody they accept.

 

They should have studied lacrosse instead.

 

I wonder if Pat Tillman would have made this list since he had a record prior to entering ASU.

 

Sounds like the leadership at my shop.