Urban Meyer on Elite Talent

[Nicomo Cosca]

(05-16-2020, 04:20 PM)Whatever Wrote: Alabama had two players arrested for possession of narcotics and a stolen firearm a few years back.  The DA refused to prosecute, making this statement...  

"I want to emphasize once again that the main reason I'm doing this is that I refuse to ruin the lives of two young men who have spent their adolescence and teenage years, working and sweating, while we were all in the air conditioning," district attorney Jerry Jones told KNOE-TV.

The issue is that unless ESPN picks up the story, it largely goes unnoticed.  Even the local media rarely blows this stuff up because they are in the University's pockets.  It's just insanely easy for fans of a program to stick their heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't happen at their college of choice.

Like I said, there’s obviously exceptions. But it seems like some programs produce more troublemakers than others.