http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/34848232 17 students campus wide arrested, 4 football team members, all are supposed to be drug dealers. Welcome to the Big12?
One impact player gone. 3 marginals. As embarrassing as it is, at least they were all expelled and kicked off the team immediately as opposed to "keep playing and use the have their day in court" excuse.
Their individual lack of character might have more to do with it than poor work ethic. They'd still be unpaid as student athletes, and they're probably god-awful students with no job prospects because of how hard they've been working since freshman year of high school (or probably even junior high). Competitive football at a D-1A school is a completely different animal from a conditioning, preparation and even player retention standpoint than basketball at an Ivy.
How 'bout the ol' "minor league amateur sports should be restricted to trade schools and police and military leagues because four-year colleges shouldn't need tailgates to prove their worth to conspicuously consuming middle-class teenagers in a specialized service and information-based economy" meme?
We were talking about it in the Big 12 thread. Those students are complete morons. I think it was last year, where 19 students were busted in the same manor at Stephen F Austin.
Being a student at TCU I can attest to the pulse of the campus right now. Here it sucks that it happens but the players and students involved deserve what they are getting. TCU administration is very transparent and Chancellor Boschini has done a great job with this and making this an example to show this is not acceptable by athletes or any TCU students. Honestly, it really hasn't changed anything here since, like Boschini said, "99.9% of the students are doing the right thing." It's a shame that this happened but in the end the school and administration is handling this the right way and will only make this institution better.
It is very sad to think that one of those players is from my hometown. The kid was one of only two people from my high school that went on to play Div 1-a football since 2000. Very disappointing
I think that guy was just a mad bro... http://espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/story...rs-tested-positive-mar1juana-according-report
i've heard from very good sources that this whole thing was pretty much run by a bunch of your standard super wealthy white frat kids and the players essentially got popped bc they bought and then flipped less than an ounce of weed.
