Chart Of The Day
Here's the top 25 chart from today's SI/CBS special report on college football and crime. It shows USC with seven players with police records (same as Oregon). USC was tied for 11th. Pittsburgh was No. 1 with 22 while Boise State was fourth with 16.
The number of players on each team in the study who were found to have police records
School Players charged SI preseason rank:
1. Pittsburgh 22 16
2. Iowa 18 6
2. Arkansas 18 23
4. Boise State 16 3
4. Penn State 16 19
6. Virginia Tech 13 10
7. Wisconsin 9 11
7. Oklahoma 9 12
7. Florida State 9 25
10. Miami 8 15
11. Ohio State 7 2
11. Florida 7 7
11. Oregon 7 8
11. USC 7 17
15. Alabama 5 1
15. North Carolina 5 13
15. Cincinnati 5 18
15. Utah 5 22
19. Nebraska 4 9
19. Georgia Tech 4 14
19. Oregon State 4 20
22. LSU 3 21
23. Texas 2 4
24. Stanford 1 24
25. TCU 0 5
Coincident that UCLA isn't on that list? Nope. They tend to shy away from the questionable characters.
Junior Pomee - case in point.
I hate to say, "I told you so", but I gotta question the accuracy of the chart...Surprised?, I sure as hell am. How could Stabber U not crack the top 10? Once again...you have demonstrated you are "better" than the BRUINS.
Fieght on Troxan!
The curse of the Gay Bronze Horse is upon you!
So what? The bRuins are also not on the Top Anything list for football. Who cares? And ThaiTaco saying anything is a joke. Yo yo homie. Go back to the IE.
This is just about the sloppiest-*ssed reporting I've seen in a long time. It's not a Top 25 list ya putz. It's a ranking of how the pre-season Top 25 teams ranked amongst themselves. English, first. Journalism, second. Football, third. Time to start all over. This blog sucks.
SUGAR SWEEEEEEEEEEEET SCOOOOOPIN', WOLFMAN!!!!
oh the dulcet tones of pure truth falling upon my ears!!
wolf, for your groundbreaking work in super scooopin', i am sending you two passes to Preffered Plus Night at Cadre HQ!!!! that's a ten dollar value. bring Petros!!
as for the trOXans, pfffffttt!! this is the only top ten poll your thuggish team will make for a dog's age!!!
HAWR-HAWR!!!!
As sportstalkterry notes, this is a list of pre-season Top 25 teams and how many players have such offenses. Note that the investigation states they only looked into these 25 teams. So, of course UCLA would not be on this list--they weren't investigated.
I guess all of the haters will now leave and do their preaching on the Pitt Panthers blogs.
So Wrong. And I continue to wonder if Wolf is an idiot or a fire-starting jerk. He probably thinks the latter and that his sensationalist style is doing us favors, but deep down inside his lonely soul- he knows.
Wow. Way to misrepresent, Smeagol-Wolf. The only person who manages to look more foolish than you each day is your employer.
sweeet scooopin' wolfman!! so what is Haden gonna so now that his team is a top 11 criminal factory??
so glad this data has come to light! i think parents should consider this data when disucussing university choies with their kids. this is serious and could be a significant safety issue. it's no joke when a school harbors criminals becuase they can run fast and catch a ball.
maybe instead of Conquest, Southern Cal band should play the theme song from COPS....bad boyz, bad boyz what choo gonna do??
Wolf, you really need to get a clue.
So SC is in the middle on this. Out of the pre-season top 25, SC has 10 teams with more, and 11 with less. Without knowing the numbers to the rest of the schools not in the pre-season top 25, this is a really pointless report.
USC is on this list because it was ranked in the top 25 in football to begin last season. Given the poor state of UCLA's football program, it will not have to worry about being placed on a list like this one. The point of the article is that teams can do a better job of running background checks on incoming recruits. This blog seems to be the only place where the Bruins can attempt to upset the Trojans, because it is not happening on the gridiron.
Get cancer, Bucket.
ucla had three arrests in a single day. not sure what they had the rest of the year but that has to get at least 'others receiving votes'.
Not many chuckles on this blog, but uscmike and in sheep's clothing got me.
Bragging about the criminals on the teams is really lame.Get a life;learn to read;get a job;do something with your life.The NCAA is going to clean up this mess.
Keep on smoking pot it will only cost you one game.Having sex is a real game breaker;not that it stopped Sanchez or Leinart.