A commenter on this article about Oregon State’s criminal football team reckons up the wages of cynical recruiting.
Scooping up drunks who’ve been flushed out of other programs (“Beavers quarterback Peter Lalich was arrested Friday at Shasta Lake in Northern California on suspicion of drunken boating and briefly jailed. The former player from the University of Virginia … transferred to OSU after two incidents involving alcohol led to his dismissal from the Virginia program.”) turns out to be especially clever.