Earle, I believe the reporter on OTL this morning said that they selected these based on the cities being primarily "college towns". (I believe she may have even said they exhibited characteristics of the quintessential college town).
Wow! Tallahassee is the state capitol. Some college town. I also have a hard time seeing College Station as a "college town." If that were the criterion, how could OM and Oxford not be included?Earle, I believe the reporter on OTL this morning said that they selected these based on the cities being primarily "college towns". (I believe she may have even said they exhibited characteristics of the quintessential college town).
I pretty much had the same thought. However, I'm almost certain that this is what Paula Lavigne (ESPN writer) said (paraphrased) this morning to Bob Ley. She also said that the story was an off shoot of the story ESPN did concerning the sexual assault of a number of Missouri coeds and female athletes by football players.Wow! Tallahassee is the state capitol. Some college town. I also have a hard time seeing College Station as a "college town." If that were the criterion, how could OM and Oxford not be included?
I hate to say it, but I saw it repeatedly when my son played middle school and high school football. Not situations with the police and arrests, but situations where the star athletes on the team were handle differently from the rest. Everything from grade changes and "retesting" to substance abuse issues that magically go away prior to the season starting. And we wonder why we produce kids that ARE characters instead of kid that HAVE character....Thanks for the link. This stuff starts in grade school for many of these athletes. They are treated differently all of their lives. Nothing surprising here, and it probably happens on every campus with a high profile sports program.
Life isn't fair, and this report will change nothing.
Sure it'll change something, those named in the report will do a better job of covering up and doctoring stats.Thanks for the link. This stuff starts in grade school for many of these athletes. They are treated differently all of their lives. Nothing surprising here, and it probably happens on every campus with a high profile sports program.
Life isn't fair, and this report will change nothing.
Sure it'll change something, those named in the report will do a better job of covering up and doctoring stats.
The first thing that came to mind as I was reading this, and seeing that FSU topped the list, was that so many recruits were swayed that way because they felt that Jimbo "had their backs" after the whole Winston affair. Tallahassee is beginning to remind me of Boulder in the mid-to-late '80s and early '90s when McCartney was recruiting kids that no one else would touch.Kids don't come to college & just get bad all of a sudden for the most part.
So, I see this all as a recruiting poster for the thugs.
You know the schools will never change.
Reminds me of Bowden's 90s/early 2000s FSU. The Criminoles reborn.The first thing that came to mind as I was reading this, and seeing that FSU topped the list, was that so many recruits were swayed that way because they felt that Jimbo "had their backs" after the whole Winston affair. Tallahassee is beginning to remind me of Boulder in the mid-to-late '80s and early '90s when McCartney was recruiting kids that no one else would touch.