OT: Four Auburn Players Arrested

Submitted by FauxMo on

So, this happened this weekend: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/15447512/carlton-davis-i…

 

In and of itself, no big deal (weed infractions are, to me, silly, but they're illegal nonetheless). But this made me think: While the SEC has been going all church-lady against the injustice of satellite camps, here are the things (off the top of my head) that have happened (just this year):

 

-Tennessee's massive institutional problem with sexual assault is revealed (with or without Peyton's teabagging);

 

-Auburn's top talent (including 2015's ESPN #1 player) likes weed;

 

-Ole Miss is discovered to openly give players money, and train them to smoke from a gas mask (in front of the Confederate Battle Flag);

 

-Bama has a coach quit under scandalous circumstances (stay tuned, I hope);

 

-Little Vandy has a highly publicized rape case settled;

 

-Missouri has a race problem that trickles into its sports;

 

-LSU is basically broke;

 

-Arkansas has a fat fraternity bro as its coach (sorry, this was gratuitous);

 

-But at least in football, UK looks clean, as does T A&M and South Carolina! WOO HOO!!

 

Am I missing anything? I know conferences go through rough patches. Heck, the B1G had UM and OSU get dinged at about the same time (for stretching and tattoos) a few years ago. But for a bunch of holier-than-thou folks who claim to lead the way in the sport, to cry foul about camps designed to help kids you'd think these yahoos would look inward a little more...

Heywood_Jablome

May 3rd, 2016 at 12:02 PM ^

Not sure I'd ever refer to SEC fans as "holier-than-thou."  Most of them know their programs cheat and they really don't care.

HimJarbaugh

May 3rd, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^

While there many issues with SEC schools and others, the criminal stuff should be left to the police. The NCAA's incompetence has no place in sexual assault or rape cases.

I understand your point, though. It is clear there are different priorities there and since it is quasi-pro ball down there, coaches are under a lot of pressure to win and seem to have no mandate or incentive to run a clean program.

UM Fan from Sydney

May 3rd, 2016 at 12:03 PM ^

The state governments just need to legalize marijuana already. For me, I get almost the same feeling from marijuana as I do from alcohol. I can argue that the effects of alcohol are worse than those of marijuana. If they tax it, the states can make a lot of money from it AND focus on fighting worse drugs.

LSAClassOf2000

May 3rd, 2016 at 12:07 PM ^

I will say that it is definitely the case that the SEC has zero room to complain, nor can they honestly tell anyone they've been "thinking of the children" this whole time because clearly the student, in their mind, is what you scrape off your Johnston & Murphy loafers.

Like most conferences, they have their own culture in a way, in this case one with a noted lack of introspection and sometimes self-awareness. The funny thing is that networks and certain organizations seem to listen to them despite all that. 

As for the Auburn story, yeah, I think that gets a nearly universal "big deal" even if it is illegal, but I assume someone in the Auburn fanbase has the grim duty to pretend to be outraged about this. 

The Mad Hatter

May 3rd, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^

On the one hand, I like weed and it makes me angry whenever someone has a legal problem because of its illegality.

On the other hand, I hate pretty much everything south of Toledo.

jmdblue

May 3rd, 2016 at 12:35 PM ^

I was awkwardly pointing out just how little there is down there by mentioning two of the good things (and they are very good).  

The problem with Dixie is that what could be both great and charming about it is its large rural/small town feel.  Globalization and a general shift to a knowledge based economy has hit these sorts of places incredibly hard in the last 30 years and what's left is lots of unemployment and meth and little of the social benefits of modernity.

EGD

May 3rd, 2016 at 12:27 PM ^

I live in Washington, where recreational marijuana has been legal (under state law, with the federal CSA not being enforced with respect to simple possession) for several years now.  It's gotten to the point that I find it surreal whenever I see a story about somebody in another state being arrested for weed.  

EGD

May 3rd, 2016 at 1:01 PM ^

I don't specifically know what their policies are, but I have to imagine weed is off limits for college athletes even in Washington or other states where recreational use has been decriminalized.  But then you are talking about something that might get you suspended from participation or kicked off the team--not something that will give you a criminal record and the second-class citizenship that goes with it.

FauxMo

May 3rd, 2016 at 12:24 PM ^

Thank you. In fact, it was the exact opposite. Taken alone, the weed thing to me is literally nothing. As part of a ball of SEC infractions, it counts. But even after I made a point of spelling that out, some giant sack of dick tips needed to do the whole, "weed is OK, glass houses" things. Ugh...

Vengeful Barbarian

May 3rd, 2016 at 1:47 PM ^

I hope you eat a dick tip sandwich with extra pubes and no mayonaisse, on a stale 3 day old bagguette, so that you have to chew it real hard and it hurts the inside of your mouth.

I hope you like the flavor of that dick tip sandwich so much that you decide to open up a bunch of chain stores that sell dick tip sandwiches, and you end up going out of business because nobody likes dick tip sandwiches except for you, and you blow your whole life savings on this enterprise. I also hope that your wife/girlfriend decides to leave you and take the kids, so that you have to move back in with your parents, who make up really strict rules that you have to live by.

Vengeful Barbarian

May 3rd, 2016 at 2:22 PM ^

Ok, here is the updated version, that includes more dick tips, since you love dick tips so much too.

 

I hope you eat a dick tip sandwich with crunchy pubes and no mayonnaise, on a stale 3 day old baguette, so that you have to chew it real hard and it hurts the inside of your mouth.



I hope you like the flavor of that dick tip sandwich so much that you decide to open up a bunch of chain stores that sell dick tip sandwiches, and you end up going out of business because nobody likes dick tip sandwiches except for you, and you blow your whole life savings on this enterprise. I also hope that your wife/girlfriend decides to leave you and take the kids, so that you have to move back in with your parents, who make up really strict rules that you have to live by, such as not being allowed to eat dick tip sandwiches anymore.



I hope that you continue to eat dick tip sandwiches at your parents house in secret, because you love them so much and can't stop, and one day you make a dick tip sandwich and forget it on the counter, and your mom and dad both eat it and love it so much that they decide to they decide to re-invest in your dick tip sandwich shop chain and bring it back. I then hope that your business endeavors fail a second time, and both you and your parents become destitute and have to live in a van, not down by the river where it's nice and scenic, but next to the water treatment plant where it smells like shit.