Don't throw stones in a glass house, as they say. This reminds me of an old thread. http://www.tigerforums.com/showthread.php?t=34575&highlight=wroten+marijuana
That wasnt my point. Of course teams have more bad kids than others. I was saying that some schools think they are clean and bash other schools, when in fact they have tons doing the same things but they havent made it to the media. But the truth is most kids Miami and Florida state signed were also offered by every SEC school. So it doesnt make the coaches awful. Which is why coaches should be judged on how they deal with these problems once they arrive, and Miami and FSU deserve the bad rap they get because they have notoriously been easy on troubled kids. Not sure what your point is.
I hear you. I just disagree that most SEC schools would've taken the kids that caused trouble in the past for Miami and Fls St. Some may have. Some in fact probably recruited them hard. But Miami made a concerted effort to recruit in demographics that other schools wouldn't touch because of grades and off-field problems. It was a risk. As it turned out, it was a bad risk. Other schools have similar stories. I agree with you that the coaches should be held accountable to some degree because, not only have they failed to control the kids who get in trouble, but they took the risk to recruit them and bring them into the program. End of the day, fans are fans. They'll irrationally bash another school while their own backyard is full of problems. LSU is not THAT far removed, particularly in the backup linebacker position.... But we seem to have a handle on it at the moment.
That's a thread about Claude Wroten getting busted with pot after his played his last game as a Tiger but before he got drafted? Would he have been kicked off the team had he gotten busted with pot while he was on the team?
Maybe. I linked it as it has examples of 2 former LSU players getting busted with pot (EJ Kuale being the other) and a long discussion about the number of athletes that do such things in it as well.
Is that really why they have their bad rap? Or is because their players come across like cocky thugs on-the-field? I'm wondering if it is on-the-field attitude problems that gave FSU and Miami such a bad rap rather than off-the-field issues.
Because most cocky-on-the-field-thugs retire to their dorm rooms after the game to read Dostoevsky and organize their philosophy notes... Thug is as thug does.
