Shoot--MY impression is/was that things were IMPROVING around here under Muschamp. While I'd concede that maybe it LOOKS worse due to a combination of a hyper-hostile & overzealous University PD, on the one hand, and a near-zero-tolerance policy when it comes to foolish, selfish and/or destructively short-sited behavior on the part of some kids, something our Head Coach figured he HAD to focus on and somehow eliminate in the aftermath of the LAST regime's "Rules For MY Guys"-vs-"Rules for Everyone Else"-approach, in general I think we've turned-the-corner here--though maybe it takes a closer, more case-by-case assessment, AND acknowledgment of both relative severity (and the mainly LACK thereof, in these latest cases) and rate-of-offenses-occurring, to begin to see it in the numbers, which (as shown above) still don't put us in the best light.
I wish our UPD were more like things used to be (ie. more concerned with keeping things safe and fun, and overlooking a lot in a "kids will be kids"-approach, rather than the adversarial, "We'll show them ALL we're REAL cops"-attitude they display now), and of course that more of these young men, forewarned of the situation, showed more consistent sense than they do, it seems--but I still feel we are well down the right path in this regard. This ain't Brigham Young or Baylor, so we aren't recruiting missionaries OR "pillars of Church and community"--but even THOSE schools, along with all the other "holier than thou"-programs out there, are suffering the same sorts of intermittent problems--and I don't see US with endemic child-molesting (a la PSU, Syracuse, etc.) OR full-scale corruption (like UM, Auburn, USC(west)--oh, the list goes on and ON)--and the hypocrisy that CONTINUES in college sports, thanks to the NCAA's inept, even purposefully unmindful failure even to police the KNOWN violators--ie. ones who've already been FOUND with documented widespread evidence against them--guarantees that it will go on.
Where are the consequences for cheating, aside from maybe bad publicity that the so-called "enforcement committee" appears to make every effort to cover OVER, when ignoring and stalling (their usual approach) doesn't work?!! Far easier to let programs like OURS, playing by the rules but running into the seemingly inevitable "periodic problems of youth and culture", take the heat publicly while they mainly "hope and pray" the REAL problems are again forgotten and fade away...until the NEXT big embarrassment.
