'...Five University of Florida players have been arrested since the team won the national championship in January. Six players at the University of Texas, the 2005 national champ, have been arrested in the past four months. [Starts with some reminders, updates, stats. Probably consulted the Fulmer Rankings.]

...[T]he National Collegiate Athletic Association could limit coaches' recruiting or impose restrictions on teams' postseason play when players repeatedly violate the law. [Ain't gonna happen.] By doing that, [one university official] said, coaches might take fewer chances on players with a history of problems. [This is the basic issue. When an established criminal is recruited to play football and pretend to go to college, he's probably going to commit crimes. No coach of whom UD is aware hesitates to embrace guys like this. Most coaches don't give a shit about the player's morality, and they certainly don't care about his education. Coaches don't see their location as that of a college. People who work for colleges don't earn two million more than the president of the college. Coaches work for communities of boosters and alumni, and they work for tv. Their location is that of a playing field.]

..."The NCAA could start to hold people accountable ... to prevent programs from bringing the entire enterprise into disrepute," [one observer] said. [And monkeys might fly out of my butt. The entire enterprise is in disrepute and no one of any significance cares. Look at the professional sports scene. People care about the games.]

...Another way to hold coaches accountable, some experts suggested: Tie their pay raises or bonuses to players' off-field behavior, paying coaches more for running a clean program. [Ain't gonna happen. And coaches are already paid obscenely.]

...Sharon K. Stoll, a professor of physical education at the University of Idaho and the director of its Center for Ethical Theory and Honor in Competition and Sport [Yikes. Get a load of that name. I'm gonna have to Google it. Hold on... Oh. It spells out ETHICS... The page looks Halloweenish, with its black background and lurid yellow/green lettering. The writing features misspelled words (its research interns clammer to study there), inability to use a comma, and vast fields of jargon.], said behavior clauses won't do any good unless players learn the difference between right and wrong.

Ms. Stoll [Who says she's written eight books, but hasn't. That's not moral.] runs workshops that aim to teach college athletes moral values. In the past year, she said, two college football teams have dropped her program, leaving just two that participate.

"More schools need to be in the active process of education about moral character," she said. "Until that happens, these problems are going to continue." [Yeah, and MBA programs have courses in How to Be Moral for their students. Please. The only good sign in all of this is that teams have dropped her program.]