Remember when?

Remember a year or so ago, when everyone was all over OSU's football program for its "indescretions?" You remember, one was with a guy who drank himself to death, one was involved in a brawl at the bar, one stole a sheep, and a few tried to pay for cab fare with weed. Well, browsing ESPN.com's college football site, the top stories include the following


-Two Sooners Dismissed (players submitted time-sheets for 40 hour weeks when they only worked 5...netting $18,000 in unworked wages each)

-Auburn benches 2 LBs (one was driving drunk and blew a .13, the other was walking drunk and happened to be underage)

-Miami Benches 4 players (no word on what they did, but it was something they all did together)

-4th Volunteer Player arrested since May (Dude was driving drunk and failed 4 field sobriety tests. No word on the others)

-Jailed San Jose St. Player charged with 13 more crimes. This is my favorite and I decided to provide the full text of the story below.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A San Jose State University football player jailed in Tulare County on robbery charges was charged with 13 additional crimes for allegedly using classified ads on the Craigslist Web site to lure other robbery victims.

Ellis T. Jones III, 20, was charged Thursday with robbery, false imprisonment and other crimes for allegedly getting potential buyers to meet him and then zapping them with a Taser or threatening them with a gun in four June stickups in San Jose.

Jones had already been suspended from the football team after his July 10 arrest on charges he robbed a pizzeria and occupants of a home in Visalia in Tulare County.

Coach Dick Tomey said Jones was expected to compete for a starting cornerback slot this fall and had never had disciplinary problems.

My point is, it seemed that everyone felt that our football program was somehow more criminal and lawless than other programs. Simply not the case. It's a nationwide epidemic among young, talented athletes that are given everything and come to expect preferential treatment. I mean, you give a kid a free pair of shoes when he turns 13 and tell him not to worry about school because he's going to be a star, and what do you think is going to happen?