Chin Diesel
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Finding the correct metrics to measure and assess can be tricky.
Take college football.
Isaiah Crowell of Georgia gets arrested by Athens-Clarke county police for felony weapons possession in a school zone and possession of a weapon with altered serial numbers.
He was pulled over around 2:00 am in his 2005 Grand Marquis after police smelled marijuana.
So, what do we learn from this?
1. 19 year old kid smoking weed? No big deal in the overall scheme of things. He's in school, it's summer, it happens. Progress= Push.
2. Carrying a weapon in a school zone? It was a 9mm luger, a sensible choice of weapon, not an assault rifle, or modified in to some automatic. Progress= Yes. That a 19 year old Georgia bred and raised teenager would have a simple pistol in his possession isn't earth shattering.
But here's where we are seeing real reform in college football.
1. A University of Georgia star RB was actually detained, identified and arrested by the police in his university town. Progress= Huge. A decade ago this never would have happened. The county police would have either taken the gun and thrown it in a creek, taken the gun and shown him how to properly use it, helped him file a few more digits to make sure the gun was really untraceable and then gotten his autograph.
2. He was arrested in a 2005 Grand Marquis. Again, under the constructs of a decade ago, he would be driving a BMW 5-series, an Audi or a Lexus. Now he is driving around in a late model beater that even the used car lot salesman booster wouldn't give his aunt to give to him.
3. He was detained at 2:00am and booked by 3:37am. Rhodes scholars hang out later than that during the summer.
So, overall, nothing in the story lowers the level of college football behavior and there are several metrics that show, enough is enough. The adults are going to behave responsibly around these kids and hold them to the same standard as regular students.
http://espn.go.com/colleges/georgia...gs-isaiah-crowell-faces-felony-weapons-counts
Take college football.
Isaiah Crowell of Georgia gets arrested by Athens-Clarke county police for felony weapons possession in a school zone and possession of a weapon with altered serial numbers.
He was pulled over around 2:00 am in his 2005 Grand Marquis after police smelled marijuana.
So, what do we learn from this?
1. 19 year old kid smoking weed? No big deal in the overall scheme of things. He's in school, it's summer, it happens. Progress= Push.
2. Carrying a weapon in a school zone? It was a 9mm luger, a sensible choice of weapon, not an assault rifle, or modified in to some automatic. Progress= Yes. That a 19 year old Georgia bred and raised teenager would have a simple pistol in his possession isn't earth shattering.
But here's where we are seeing real reform in college football.
1. A University of Georgia star RB was actually detained, identified and arrested by the police in his university town. Progress= Huge. A decade ago this never would have happened. The county police would have either taken the gun and thrown it in a creek, taken the gun and shown him how to properly use it, helped him file a few more digits to make sure the gun was really untraceable and then gotten his autograph.
2. He was arrested in a 2005 Grand Marquis. Again, under the constructs of a decade ago, he would be driving a BMW 5-series, an Audi or a Lexus. Now he is driving around in a late model beater that even the used car lot salesman booster wouldn't give his aunt to give to him.
3. He was detained at 2:00am and booked by 3:37am. Rhodes scholars hang out later than that during the summer.
So, overall, nothing in the story lowers the level of college football behavior and there are several metrics that show, enough is enough. The adults are going to behave responsibly around these kids and hold them to the same standard as regular students.
http://espn.go.com/colleges/georgia...gs-isaiah-crowell-faces-felony-weapons-counts
