Vukk wrote:You hear of the 'x' people who do the wrong 'thing.' You don't hear about the 'y' others who do the right 'thing.' Do you care about the guy who does his job the way he is supposed to, or the one who gets in trouble?
Exactly. 5 or 10 or 20 people get suspended here or there in a collegiate sport that has probably a good 5,000 participants is probably something to be expected, ESPECIALLY in football. It's actually surprising, in my mind, that fights aren't more common. For a few hours a day, every week, for a months out of the year, you're smashing into other people and doing other violent things in order to grab some egg-shaped ball. Coaches TRY to make their athletes hit harder, hit faster, slam people to the ground quicker, and it often baffles me how they, at the end of the game, can just walk up and shake hands with each other. I've seen people start fighting in the everyday world just because someone bumped into their shoulder while walking by.
The drugs issue is a bit different. Of course, as college students, they'll have easy access and do drugs just as much as any other college student (which is a good number of them). When a football player gets caught with drugs, big news. When your average joe psych major gets caught doing drugs, no one cares. Hell, they bring in billions of dollars in revenue for schools and aren't paid a penny, should we also expect ethical perfection? Maybe, but let's not get all crazy when they do screw up. They're barely out of high school
