Wednesday, August 19, 2015
SEC! SEC!
I was fascinated by this chart, listing the top 25 schools by football player arrests over the last five years. Let's break it down by conference:
SEC: 11
Big 12: 5
PAC-12: 3
Big 10: 3
ACC: 2
MAC: 1
Coincidence, or not, that this is pretty perfectly in line with on-field success by conference over that same time period?
Baylor doesn't appear on the list-- but that does not mean it doesn't have issues. In today's Waco paper, for example, is the story of a Baylor football player currently on trial for rape of a freshman student. Troublingly, he transferred from Boise State after being thrown out there for violation of unspecified team rules-- and also after being named a Freshman All-American on the field.
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Some notable absences from the list that are powerhouse schools: Michigan State, Baylor, that played against each other in a bowl game at the end of the season last year. And the SEC maybe should change its name to the South East Criminal Conference.
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: 6:57 AM
Of course, this lists arrests, not convictions, and the civil libertarian in me knows the difference. However… as we know from some of these cases, the reason arrests don't become convictions with some football players is because they are football players.
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