because it seems if academics are a problem in the spring.. they'd sure be a problem in the fall when you have constant football stuff
I love how even the real sips and tshirt sips are "orange-washing" this whole situation...birds of a feather flock together. Taylor is a thug, plain and simple and got what he deserved...actually he deserved it earlier (I have heard that he has had issues back in high school at Belton). The longhorn machine is a monster. You have a hell of a "spinster" at coach, a hell of a law school, and a hell of a good relationship w/ the austin police department; all lead to covering up problems w/i the program...just like many of the other big time programs have. Do you realize that w/ that amount, he wasn't going to smoke it all himself, he was going to deal it to a bunch of kids...aka, a drug dealer. 5 lbs of weed is a huge amount. Go cut the yard and pick up the grass clippings and you'd have to pick up a hell of a lot for 5 lbs. As talented as taylor is, he screwed up too much and now his issues aren't worth the program keeping him around. All of you who love your burnt orange are now feeling attacked and the only way to defend yourselves is to attack other schools...at least it makes you feel better, but **** stinks and there is a huge plume over austin.
Forget UT for a second, what about schools that recruit people who were known to be trouble makers in high school.. can we blame them if they get in trouble in college?
so what do you think should happen, should mack brown be arrested. no one is spinning this, the kid got in trouble and he got kicked off the team. that's as far as the school can go. its a legal matter. they did everything they could.
they generally spend enough time getting to know recruits to find out if they had problems in hs with this type stuff etc. I'd think
a kid shouldn't be prevented from going to college for what he did in h.s. john thompson got a.i. out of jail to go to georgetown, but he only had one offense. fighting in a bowling alley. should he have not gone to school because of that. that's silly. kids do stupid things. to punish them for the rest of their lives for some bad decisions they made as teenagers is silly especially since your dream of true "student athletes" isn't happening. besides, very few kids who've been in trouble with the law get recruited and make it to big time college athletics. if they are in legal trouble they are usually lost causes by then, or they have to go through the j.c. system.
It seems that there was a florida school signing someone despite all the problems he had in past. .can't remember who... those are the schools i have problems with. the ones who know a kid is constantly in trouble but will sign him anyways..
Why not??? If a player was known to be a thug in high school, then you sign him to play on your team you can't act like it isn't the schools problem at all when he is arrested later on .
And a criminal background sure can prevent a lot of regular students from getting into certain schools.
i edited my post but the point was the same, basically if a kid has a rep, that definitely shouldn't prevent him from going to college. and if something happens its usually dealt with.
well if they had special talents it wouldn't, and you can't ignore that. the kids have something these schools want, that can benifit the school financially. and my argument would be college is supposed to prepare you for the real world. and in the real world special talents can get you some special privaleges and that doesn't change after college.
I'd much rather be a stoner than have to sit in my driver's seat asking random co-eds to "help me with this".
it might not should prevent him from going to some college, but I think if you are trying to put together a football team with some character, you have to take into account the past actions of the kid. There is a difference between one mistake in high school and what I'm talking about. I'm talking about if a kid is known to have repeated problems with the law throughout high school, it should be no surprise when he gets in trouble in college.
pg.. my point was in response to people saying a coach can't predict the future. I was simply saying that a coach can predict the future in cases where the kid is known to have had problems in high school, etc. These coaches spend enough time recruiting to get an idea of character before they let them in. And no there aren't a lot of them coming in with felonies, but there are cases where some get in despite major past problems. Can't remember the name of the guy I'm thinking of, I think it was a florida school
if a kid has no previous problems and seems like high character.. then I do agree that it can't be blamed on coach always.
