Thirteen arrests, fifteen wins. They are almost at parity. Something for the school to – er – shoot for.
Thirteen arrests, fifteen wins. They are almost at parity. Something for the school to – er – shoot for.
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August 19th, 2015 at 6:14AM
That has been achieved. In the small print, this article says that Washington State, “which has the most arrests in the past five years at 31, has 18 wins over that span.”
But these programs are poorly run. The better schools make sure their criminal-athletes don’t get arrested, and I don’t mean by making them behave.
At the University of North Carolina, five football players were involved in a public altercation (reportedly involving gunfire, but that’s just a rumor) and only one was arrested. His trial has been postponed until the football season is over, but he has been suspended for the first two games.
Incidentally, it took the coach a while to suspend this player, but apparently someone pointed out that inaction looked bad, given that (1) the NCAA has charged UNC with a number of serious offenses and (2) the university has been put on probation by its accrediting agency for athletics-induced academic chicanery.