OT: College football crime report - Jan. 22
Here's a roundup of notable arrests and incidents related to college football during the past week. Most of these are not eligible for the Fulmer Cup, but nonetheless might be interesting to you, the informed college football reader. Be warned: Some of these may be somewhat grim.
- The first Fulmer Cup score of the year came when University of Connecticut running back Lyle McCombs was arrested for two misdemeanor charges related to marijuana.
- The second score likely will be this arrest of freshman Oklahoma wide receiver Kenneth Stills for DUI and the accompanying arrest of freshman defensive back Tony Jefferson for allegedly interfering with official process during Stills' arrest.
- In non-Fulmer Cup news, a second former University of Colorado football player, sophomore Michael Theodore O'Connor, has been accused of sex assault in the same event that involved former Colorado linebacker Michael Sipili, who was charged last week.
- Turning to serious matters, bail has been halved from $3 million to $1.5 million for Travis "Taurus" Brown, the man suspected in the shooting of three Southern Miss football players on Nov. 14. He remains unable to afford the sum.
- Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, the University of Iowa's all-time leading wide receiver, no longer faces charges of keeping a drug house. Unfortunately for him, he still faces several drug possession charges.
- In related news, former Iowa RB Adam Robinson is making a public apology and is asking to be readmitted to the Hawkeyes' football program after an arrest for marijuana possession.
- Former Tennessee star Nu'Keese Richardson is making a new start at 1-AA Hampton (Va.) University after being sentenced in connection with an armed robbery and dismissed from the Volunteers in 2009.
- A 17-year-old verbal commit to Texas A&M has been arrested for aggravated robbery.
- Nathan Tom Bartley, a freshman football player at Arizona Western College, has been arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash in Yuma, Arizona.
- Three University of New Mexico football players were charged with battery and other offenses after being accused of complicity in a nightclub brawl.
- Three former Citadel football players pled guilty to robbing their former assistant coach.
- Former University of Toledo football player Adam Cuomo pled guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for influencing the result of Toledo football games.
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:18 AM ^
You hate to see this stuff happen in college football and to young men, but as long as it doesnt happen at Michigan Im good. This thread is pretty interesting, and gives us fans some more material when we argue college football with another arrogant jackass OSU/MSU/Iowa, etc fan...
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:37 AM ^
It is surprising to me to see a few Iowa players on there, especially DJK.
The guy always had issues with Ferentz for no apparent reason...NSFMF, maybe Ferentz knew something everyone didn't until this came out. Even ESPN hyped this guy this year, but now he is hoping to pull of a late 5th or early 6th round draft pick.
January 23rd, 2011 at 10:24 AM ^
Surprising to see Iowa? They've been the closest thing to a renegade Big 10 program for at least 5-7 years now.
Their football program tried to help cover up an aggravated rape, for god's sake.
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:18 PM ^
Iowa, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State. All have commited crimes or "suspicious activites" according to the NCAA.
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:18 AM ^
More then a few RR recruits on the list... Hopefully these young men can right the ship and stay outta trouble
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:32 AM ^
The RR line can be used with any number of other head coaches, of course he attempted to recruit highly rated players. RR is gone no need to keep kicking the dead horse.
January 23rd, 2011 at 1:05 PM ^
Nice try, dipshit.
Let's take the easy ones.
• Lyle McCombs - UConn - not offered by UM
• O'Connor -CU not offered by UM, not even in Rivals or Scout database
• Sipili - CU- not offered by UM, note even in Rivals or Scout database
• Adam Robinson - Iowa - not offered by UM, was late 2008 commit to Iowa, didn't even visit UM; no offers from WVU, either
• Henderson - T A&M - not offered by UM
• Citadel players - It's an FCS school for fuck's sake, so no UM Offers
• Bartley, Arizona Western - same as above, asshole
• Cuomo - Toledo - no UM offer, can't even find him on Scout/Rivals database
• Harris, Williams - New Mexico - no UM offers; Conley not listed on Scout Rivals database
Here are the ones that did receive UM offers:
• Jefferson - OK - offer from UM, Penn State, Notre Dame
• Stills - OK - offer from UM, PSU, Stanford
• Richardson - offer from UM, host of other SEC schools
• Johnson-Koulianos - 2006 recruit; offer from WVU and UM (Lloyd Carr)
So to recap: there are 17 players on the list in the OP.
Rich Rodriguez, while either at UM or WVU, offered a grand total of 4.
Of those 4, one was also offered by Joe Paterno and ND, and one was offered by PSU and by Jim Harbaugh at Stanford. These are schools not renowned for recruiting thugs.
One - Richardson - was offered by RR at UM along with a bunch of other SEC schools.
The remaining RR recruiting target - Johnson-Koulianos - was offered while he was at WVU, and this recruit was also offered by Lloyd Carr.
In summation: blow it out your ignorant ass. The last thing Brady Hoke needs is vocal support from morons like you.
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:07 PM ^
Lord Doomhammer strikes again.
+1 for research.
January 23rd, 2011 at 3:17 PM ^
Stating the obvious don. What part of my statement was incorrect? A few is 3 and there were more then that number on the list. Then I wished them well. I think it's time you take your medication. Loser
January 23rd, 2011 at 3:34 PM ^
Bringing up Rodriguez was totally irrelevant.
January 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 PM ^
Whatever you say captain. You are entitled to your opinion as am I. I was a pro RR guy all the way to the end. I also wish him well in his future. J wasn't trying to paint him in negative light, only the first thing that came to mind with those recruits he went after. Carry on good sirs
January 23rd, 2011 at 9:13 PM ^
Keep posting so you can enojy the weather in Bolivia. I hear it's nice this time of year
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:32 AM ^
Kenneth Stills is a wide receiver, btw. A really good one at that who played a big role at OU this year.
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:37 AM ^
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:35 AM ^
Not in any way defending the abovementioned tomfoolery but I wonder what the population to legal trouble ratio is for athletes versus the rest of the student body? Or even more telling, athletes versus the entire male (for the most part) population 18-22?
My guess is that while their misadventures are made public thanks to the media, the actual ratio of bad apples to good apples is probably better than the other two larger groups they are also a member of.
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:54 AM ^
January 23rd, 2011 at 8:14 AM ^
Georgia's team had eleven arrests in 2010 as of October. Their enrollment is roughly 35,000, though I couldn't find arrest numbers for the entire student body.
Also, were Ole Miss's arrests only counted if on campus? The entire student body surely had even more that happened off campus. And most of these football players get in trouble off campus as opposed to on campus, fwiw.
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:39 AM ^
Some teams in the SEC have horrible legal records. Georgia had over ten arrests just in 2010. I'd hope that ratio isn't present in the student body.
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:45 AM ^
I honestly don't know and i don't think I've ever seen any statistics on it one way or the other. I would think it would be relatively easy (key word relatively) to validate though for someone with the time and inclination to do so. I just know that media spotlight tends to make us think things are far worse than they usually are upon closer inspection (see any year's pandemic flu threat for proof).
I'm talking to you MSM.
January 23rd, 2011 at 8:02 AM ^
A lot of college athletes come from economic backgrounds that wouldn't allowed them to attend the schools that they do without an athletic scholarship, so their social and familial backgrounds aren't entirely comparable to the rest of the student body. That sort of skews the results. That difference is going to be much slighter at mid-major level schools and FBS schools(especially in this case, since there will be athletes who don't have full rides), though. I don't think you would get much information if you looked at Michigan, for instance.
I'm surprised someone hasn't looked at it from a vast statistical standpoint, though. The schools and the NCAA would probably be less than cooperative, fwiw.
January 23rd, 2011 at 8:13 AM ^
That's a good point and one I thought about as well. A fourth subset would be the arrest records of the population encompassing the school district the athlete came from. I'll be when you do that comparison their behavior relative to the mean would be outstanding.
January 23rd, 2011 at 9:58 AM ^
The ad was fired. Dui a girl "that wasnt his wife" with him and her panties in his lap. Monkey see...…
January 23rd, 2011 at 12:49 PM ^
forget Daddy asking for ca$h. I always love the "caught cheating three times" and "threw a stolen laptop out the window when the police came" angles.
January 23rd, 2011 at 8:09 AM ^
Including the charges involving marijuana possesion in the same list with thuggish violent crimes is both misleading and ridiculous.
January 23rd, 2011 at 8:16 AM ^
Readers can see that the crimes aren't equal from a moral standpoint.
January 23rd, 2011 at 8:20 AM ^
from any sane standpoint
January 23rd, 2011 at 8:23 AM ^
I'd be completely against this if there was just a list of names of players that were arrested without their crime listed as well. I think most people make a fair judgment based on the crime, though.
January 23rd, 2011 at 8:31 AM ^
Take a drag off that marijuana cigarette, hold it, and relax. No matter how many times you tell yourself it isn't, marijuana use, possession, and distribution (medical use the exception) is a crime. Thus, it belongs on a crime report. We can all judge for ourselves the severity of the crimes listed.
January 23rd, 2011 at 10:43 AM ^
Nobody was saying it isn't a crime, just that it's ridiculous to put a "victimless crime" in the same category as armed robbery or rape or something.
January 23rd, 2011 at 8:55 AM ^
I don't feel bad for any of them. They are given such a great opportunity that any of would love to have. All they have to do is not get arrested....not that hard.
January 23rd, 2011 at 9:55 AM ^
College student/athlete get a medical marijuana card? If so someone needs to really push this on the recruiting trail! Jk. Maybe this has been key to the rise of oregon? And maybe they are just really over doing it in colorado.
January 23rd, 2011 at 10:53 AM ^
If that's the case then apparently someone forgot to tell Masoli when he was at Oregon.
January 23rd, 2011 at 11:12 AM ^
How dumb do you have to be to rob somebody who can ID you in three seconds to the police? That coach is lucky they didn't just kill him.
Put them in jail and don't let them out. Ever.
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:08 PM ^
He's making plays man. Keep him in the game!
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:17 PM ^
I'm only out of sorts when asswipes continue to imply that Rich Rodriguez was some sort of shady character who only recruited thugs and drove off Ryan Mallett and shredded irreplaceable documents, all without a single fucking piece of evidence or fact to back up their insinuations. I think RR did a lousy job overall of being HC, and I'm not too upset about him being let go. His record was hard to defend, and I'm done fighting the battle of Rodriguez Hill when it comes to on-field performance. It's the mendacious bullshit about off-the-field stuff that is the issue with me. And I don't hug men, even family members.
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:21 PM ^
Relax Don.......I was just teasing you. I know how you feel about RR regarding both on and off the field issues (and I agree with you BTW) but your posts this morning seemed angrier than usual. This one included.
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:25 PM ^
Heh.. if you saw me in person you'd laugh about the "big fella"... I'm 5-7 and weighed in at 134 at NCRB after my workout last night. Basically I'm elf-sized. Not even big enough to be a water boy at a D-III school.
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:31 PM ^
Then we'd make quite a team cause I'm 6'5" and go about 250 and whenever I wear my Michigan gear people always ask me what position I played and when did I play.
Don't you have a kid at BG? My youngest is going there next year - maybe we can have a beer there sometime next fall and argue about this in person. No hugs!
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:52 PM ^
Yep, my daughter is a first-year grad student at BG. FWIW, she likes the school quite a bit. She did her undergrad at Wisconsin, and of course BG as a town doesn't have nearly the amount of stuff going on that Madison does, but she and her fiance like it anyhow.
I regret not getting to a game at Camp Randall, but I did go see BG host Kent State this past fall at Doyt Perry Field. Going to a game in a stadium that small when you're used to Michigan Stadium is sort of bizarre. If you plan on going to any BG games next year let me know. Do you by any chance know Bill Dufek? IIRC, he was related to Bob Chmiel by marriage.
January 23rd, 2011 at 3:19 PM ^
I'm sorry I don't know him. Is he Don Dufek's brother? I've been to three games at Camp Randall (one when I was in school, 2 since) and have had a BLAST every time.
I'll buzz you next fall. More likely I'll be picking up my son to go to AA than going to games in BG!