<p>SI/CBS</a> News special investigation into college football, crime - The Bonus - SI.com</p>
<p>I don’t think Pitt is too happy to be at the top of the list.</p>
<p>How did they define crime? Is a ticket for drinking underage or minor pot use really a crime?</p>
<p>Hit it on the head barrons. Just read online that at one of the schools, Arkansas, 7 of their 18 criminal offenses were speeding tickets, 5 were for underage drinking, 3 for DUI, 2 for pot, and 1 for shoplifting. </p>
<p>Shock journalism…again…big bold words…“Striking Stats”. Gotta sell those mags. Like the John Mayer song says,
“and when you trust your television
what you get is what you got
cause when they own the information, oh
they can bend it all they want”</p>
<p>I can’t believe UT is that low. Motto: Book 'em Horns.</p>
<p>@ barrons (“How did they define crime? Is a ticket for drinking underage or minor pot use really a crime?”):</p>
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<p>Seems to me enough to reduce anyone’s “chances” pretty close to zero, except, apparently, for football players…</p>
<p>Guess those of us whose teams were not in the Preseason Top 25 should be happy we weren’t a part of the study. My alma mater finished the season in the Top 25 despite the fact that our best running back was dismissed from the team two weeks before the season started after he was arrested for sexual assault. Proud of our coaching staff for showing him the door.</p>
<p>read the last chapter, THE BLIND SIDE, 2005, Michael Lewis.</p>
<p>That means 60% were not more serious crimes and even a bar scuffle will get you an assault charge. I’d bet most of the non violent crimes are underage drinking and minor drug possession cases. At many schools 100’s of students get these tickets every year–see recent Penn State party thread. The should have stopped with real violent crimes such as felony assault. Shoplifting and smoking a blunt or having a few beers underage are not that scary to me. But an article saying 2% of athletes charged with serious crimes would not make the headlines.</p>
<p>They show 7% of the players from the top 25 teams with arrest records. The average for all 10-17 year olds is 6.3%. And it’s safe to assume that if you add in data for 18- and 19-year-olds, the control group average would go to at least 7% - probably more. Even if no 18- and 19-year-olds in the U.S. are ever arrested (yeah, right :)), the difference between the 6.3% and the 7%, considering the sample size, is not statistically significant.</p>
<p>^ I’d hope for the arrest rates among college students to be well bellow “average” though…</p>
<p>I would also wonder how many time athletes on big time teams get a pass.</p>
<p>Anyone happen to correlate any of the violent crimes with possible use of steroids? Just wondering…</p>
<p>This article/study is just ridiculous. No context for the data, skewed reporting of the data…sensational journalism at its best. And the worst part? People will buy the magazine or will stayed glued to the tube as newscasters use it as their lead in the night’s headlines. Have we become that naive or so used to this type of journalism that it is deemed as acceptable? I so miss my days of Walter Cronkite and Roger Mudd. Real, traditional, news.</p>
<p>Good follow ups by some of the fball programs in the article as well as from other sites in terms of calling out the accuracy of the “shocking study” though:</p>
<p><a href=“UPDATED%20with%20Iowa’s%20response”>url=http://thegazette.com/2011/03/02/iowa-football-tied-for-2nd-in-a-top-25-in-which-youd-rather-be-25th-sports-illustratedcbs-news-investigative-report-explains/</a> Iowa football tied for 2nd in a Top 25 you’d rather not lead. Sports Illustrated/CBS News investigative report explains. | TheGazette</p>
<p>[CBS</a> and Sports Illustrated Think Your Team Stole Their Wallet | Slow States](<a href=“http://www.slowstates.com/blog/cbs-and-sports-illustrated-think-your-team-stole-their-wallet/]CBS”>team – Slow States)</p>