Different people open the newspaper to different sections. Older people read the obituaries to make sure their name does not appear. Stock brokers read the reports to make sure they remember numbers right from the previous day. university athletic coaches read the police report to see if any of their athletes were arrested the night before.
What about that last one?
Ohio University has had 17 football players arrested in the first nine months of this year. That boils down to every other week, a football player is in trouble with the law.
Every other week!
The infractions are:
1. assault
2. driving under the influence
3. illegal possession of drugs
4. being stupid
5. being stupid
6. being stupid....
The school often tries to handle the problems internally. But the bonehearded ballplayers broke the law!
None of the players had been suspended. I found that surprising until I learned that the head football coach was ALSO on probation for conviction of drunken driving last year.
I believe in second chances. I also believe in restitution and fairness and good sense.
It is just me or does it seem the football players are following in the steps of the head coach? Or is the head coach trying to reach students who have a similar problem that he HAD?
OU has discipline problems...and it starts with how it handles its coaches and how they handle their student athletes?
What do you think?
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