Re: Tide OL Alphonse Taylor arrested, charged with DUI
You did really good!I have two major issues with your position.
A: You seem to being treating all arrests as equal. They are not. Merely being arrested can range anywhere from not actually doing anything wrong, to rape and murder. How much weight would you put on a rape arrest vs. the crime of possessing a plant? I don't care how many arrests Baylor or Tennessee had, what they had going on there was what a real problem looks like and it is disgusting.
B: Not all police are willing to arrest and punish football players. So, just pointing somewhere and going on hey those guys haven't been arrested as much means virtually nothing.
Not only that, but you had 4 arrests from a single incident. Every single one of the players involved were kicked off the team. The only player allowed to return, from what I gather had no direct involvement (his guilt was that of being present). You can't let data be skewed by single incidents though, for instance you have one mass killing in a small country like Iceland and suddenly the homicide rate skyrockets. That's not indicative of now things normally are though.
It is hard to believe that at this point in time, some people are still so oblivious, and yet they are. How many times did someone report what Sandusky was doing? Yet, it took decades for him to be arrested right? Well, I guess they had a sterling arrest record for coaches during that period, but what means absolutely nothing.
How about Jamies Winston? What he apparently did (I can only say apparently because of steadfast refusal by the police to do their job appropriately), is far worse than any football player Nick Saban has coached as far as I'm aware. She reported the rape without knowing who he was, his DNA was on her (though they took their sweet time in bringing him in and testing), and she has bruises appear on her during the interview. Pretty open and shut case if handled properly, yet it wasn't even close to being handled properly. So, no arrest, Isiah can point to FSU as not having an arrest, but that means nothing. Let us not forget their running back beat up his girlfriend, she posted pictures on social media of it, and he wasn't even suspended a single game. That's what a problem looks like.
There's just no evidence at all that Nick Saban has a problem, unless you consider not covering up player's crimes a problem. I suppose Penn State and FSU would see it that way, but I don't. There's no evidence of Nick Saban harassing victims like Art Briles and Joe Paterno did, there's no evidence of coverups, there none of the evidence we've seen elsewhere of systematic problems. Instead, we see players who occasionally break the law and have to face actual repercussions of that. I don't see the problem...