re: Zach Price arrested for 3rd degree assault

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I am curious what you were thinking just a few years ago when we had players getting accused of rape, getting DUIs, getting shot in the ankle during fights, pulling shotguns on people, etc?

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Nice to see the evolution of our internet discussion.

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You brought it up. Not me. And I wasn't trying to make a "have you stopped beating your wife" argument. While 0 is the acceptable rate of sexual assaults committed by players (as you tentatively agreed), it is not the practical expectation. I was curious (and as evidenced by your last response, with good reason) as to what your comfort level was.

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Are there some numbers that I can see that you are referring to? Less serious thought - maybe you should follow the Mighty Ducks instead because your Disney view of how the world should be is going to frustrate you in college athletics.

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Here's a list of known rape accusations in D1 College football.

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Since 1990, there have been over 60. That doesn't sound like a horribly high number given the number of athletes playing football at a D1 level. A little less impressively, the University of Missouri football teams owns 4 of those rape accusations, two in the 1990s and two in 2010. So, it doesn't appear at a glance that college athletes are raping women at a higher rate than non-athletes. It does appear that Missouri has had an inordinate number of those incidents compared to the rest of college football teams.

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Are you referring to his freshman season incident? That coach was not at Mizzou when the information became public that a girl had gone to him. If that coach had been at Mizzou, I believe there would have been an investigation and possible discipline. The current coach, when faced with a similar situation, kicked him off the team.

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The fact that Anderson was the coach doesn't mean it didn't happen at Mizzou. The hope that Frank Haith would have done differently/better than Anderson in responding to the incident is only a hope. There's no reason to suggest he actually would have. I suspect (and this isn't a hope, just a jaded opinion) that if Dixon's first rape accusation hadn't been leaked, that Michael would've played the rest of the year.

Finally, I don't think I have a Disney view of the world. I do have very high expectations of my alma mater and its attitude towards incidents which will literally destroy the lives of innocent young women. And that attitude carries over into other areas which involve the law and policies and procedures. I don't think that's unrealistic nor the result of some discount management book.