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dubster1;n235016 said:come on rainey, you and the cleat chaser bought all that shi! on yourselves. "own it" none of it had nothing to do with uf.
T REX;n234956 said:why didn't they pick Alabama?
playzwtrux;n235288 said:my thoughts exactly.
Because they wanted UF to be the worst. Alabama either would be the highest arrests, or highest swept under the rugs.
Thk&ThnG8r;n234912 said:Go to ESPN.com - sorry I'm not good at posting links. They looked at arrests at ten schools. UF & FSU were featured on TV, the others are in the story. Interesting note, ND and MSU police departments are fighting the release of records.
T REX;n234956 said:Call ESPN whatever you want but UF is the worst of those ten schools. My god, why didn't they pick Alabama? Disappointing.
I guess we're just like everyone else.
Gatorphan;n235339 said:The statistics are the main feature of this report. However they are very incomplete.
This report deals with reported incidents, with no gauge of incidents diffused at the moment of law enforcement contact. UF has had some thuggery, but I also think there more reported incidents in G-ville because local law enforcement gives little preferential treatment to the athletes. It could almost be said that they are even more harsh. This would also explain the amount of cases dismissed. In a town like Tuscaloosa, if the incidents go unreported, there less incidents, and there is a lower ratio of dismissals.
LagoonGator68;n234942 said:Good espin journalism is an oxymoron. Complete waste of time as their only interest is skewing for their agenda which is sensationalism.
PatDooleySucks;n235432 said:Chris Rainey was "dating" Terry Jackson's ex-girlfriend. A girl Jackson dated while Jackson was at UF. He's a mess
His sentiment about why the powers that be didn't punish him with more zeal or more force at the beginning of his transgressions is the typical criminal sentiment when they are all of a sudden faced with a minimum mandatory or large prison time when their records start to catch up to them. It's the system's fault for not being more heavy handed at the beginning ...
deuce;n235548 said:Well, well...... look who the dog dragged in...
ATXGator;n235381 said:... and I know a lot of them go back to the Meyer years. With Meyer it really did seem from 2008 forward that the "circle" ran the team. Maybe Meyer has learned from this approach and has changed at OSU... I have no idea.
ATXGator;n235381 said:I completely understand why access to an attorney like Johnson is an advantage, and also how some of these arrests (barking at a police dog) are bogus. As somebody pointed out earlier... if the police don't charge or arrest a student they don't get on the report, so a school like FSU doesn't look as bad as they really are (which says a lot based on how bad they do look in the article)
soflagator;n235733 said:Am I the only one that saw the humor in Rainey being on a show called "Outside the Lines"? Perhaps the only thing better would be a full blown endorsement from Crayola.
Nothing we really didn't know already. Probably several contributing factors as some have mentioned. Just looking at things like the towing incident with Joiner, the boot that they placed on Monroe's car, the Jimmy Johns incident, Cooper's citation, Carl Johnson, etc., there were plenty of nit-pick types of arrests or things blown way out of proportion. At the same time, it became way too common and there were some serious character flaws within the program. Not sure why CR felt the need to openly air things though. He threatened a girl via text and was suspended for basically half a season, including 4 losses where we desperately needed him. Not only was he one of the knuckle heads, he was--in my opinion--punished properly.
And no, I don't think any 20 year old without a prior criminal record would ever face full charges for losing his cool with a girlfriend in a text, while in his own home displaying no signs of hurting anyone. Athlete or not, it probably gets knocked down to what he got based on those circumstances.
Walk that crap, he threw a sandwich or barked at a dog, into ANY prosecutor's office in the country and see how quickly you get cursed at and told to GTFO of the office.TLB;n235664 said:AMEN. This is another thing that's gone through my mind. While I carry the common feeling that UPD/GPD are over zealous in addressing our atheletes, I accept that may be a biased perspective given my affection for the team.