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College Football & Crime

By 11W Staff - 02 March 2011
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"Seven percent of the players in the preseason Top 25 had been charged with or cited for a crime, including dozens of players with multiple arrests." Umm... okay. (SI)

Source sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/the_bonus/02/27/cfb.crime/index...

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Comments

yrro on 2 Mar 2011 - 1:18pm #

I really wish they had broken up the crimes better. Shoplifting or trespassing show up as crimes, but they're a far shade from selling drugs, robbery, or assault.

Jason Staff on 2 Mar 2011 - 1:32pm #

Yeah, it's a bit of a head-scratcher. Crime rates are on par or below national average and other things make you wonder why this is even news -- unless there are follow-up bombshells.

Matthew on 2 Mar 2011 - 5:00pm #

All the hype for this?

Class of 2010

Conroy on 2 Mar 2011 - 5:47pm #

Matt Hinton had a great response: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Headlinin-SI-takes-slightly-skewed-aim-at-coll?urn=ncaaf-328550

Poe McKnoe on 2 Mar 2011 - 6:27pm #

Weeee seven percent. I've never been arrested (knock on wood) so it is relatively high compared to the general crime rate. Why not consider teams outside of the Top 25? Or is it saying the better teams have more arrests?

RBuck Mod on 3 Mar 2011 - 11:54am #

I'm wondering who OSU's 7 are...I can only think of 5 that were there at the beginning of last season. If some of this stuff went back to high schoolers under 18, how did SI get access to juvenile records? Anyhoo, not a big deal here.

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