re: For the most part Steve Spurrier has done a good job keeping USC players in line

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He struck, beat, pushed, open-palm punched, assaulted, battered, whatever word you want to use.

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Those mean different things. I suppose shove, push, and the all-encompassing "struck" work in this case.

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He plead guilty to battery,

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Simple battery - per Wikipedia "any form of non-consentual harmful or insulting contact, regardless of the injury caused."

That can mean a lot of things.

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You stated the opposite. in fact thats how this debate started.

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The key word in all of those is "beat."

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What link? I didn't post a link. Didn't think I needed to. I'm sure you are familiar with it. Here it is in case you are not familiar with it. Just for the record I was not familiar with it and had not heard about it. just came across it.....the article says it was updated on June 6, 2014....don't know when it actually happened, but it says something about May. I'm not trying to put stuff off on SouCar. I agree with the OP that as a whole, SouCar seems to keep their program pretty clean. Good for y'all! (Honestly)
Just wanted to point out if you want to talk about troubles Georgia has, your program is not totally without sin, either.

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In your last post, there was a box, looked like you had tried to put in a link or pic.

That incident was in '12, he wasn't even part of the team then.

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A spokesman with the athletic department says Davis was informed well before this incident that his scholarship would not be renewed.

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Also, he was never found or plead guilty either. So that's a big difference.

https://www.wach.com/news/story.aspx?id=768538#.U9K18IBdV_Q

Somewhere Stephen Garcia just exhaled a huge bong rip, nodding in agreement with your assessment

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team policy not to date girls who have swolley faces

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at the way you wrote that, not lol'ing at the girl getting beat.

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In your last post, there was a box, looked like you had tried to put in a link or pic.

That incident was in '12, he wasn't even part of the team then.

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Yes. I just went back and found that it happened in 2012. However, he was set to be a 5th year senior, but apparently was not going to have his scholly renewed. As I said...no program is clean enough to point fingers. None. Including Vandy, as you pointed out. (Who'd of thought Vandy would be in THIS conversation! )

I thought about starting a serious thread asking about this....but I know serious threads rarely do well here at the Rant.

Some schools DO seem to have most if not all of their dirty laundry aired out. You have to think that kids being what they are (Immature, entitled, etc) that this stuff goes on at all the schools a WHOLE lot more than what is reported. So...why does it seem some schools come out front and center as having more kids getting in trouble. Georgia has a lot that get into trouble...but in fairness, MOST of the time it is small stuff in comparison. Auburn and Alabama has had relatively fewer reported...but some of those have been armed robbery, assault etc.

A&M is getting hit lately as is Tennessee, while South Carolina and Missouri usually flies under the radar. I think as a whole discipline is probably handled similarly, so why do some schools APPEAR to have more problems than others?

Got an opinion?

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Auburn and Alabama has had relatively fewer reported...

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Cops that arrest them, get fired. They got things on lock.

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Got an opinion?

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Yes. I just went back and found that it happened in 2012. However, he was set to be a 5th year senior, but apparently was not going to have his scholly renewed. As I said...no program is clean enough to point fingers. None. Including Vandy, as you pointed out. (Who'd of thought Vandy would be in THIS conversation! )

I thought about starting a serious thread asking about this....but I know serious threads rarely do well here at the Rant.

Some schools DO seem to have most if not all of their dirty laundry aired out. You have to think that kids being what they are (Immature, entitled, etc) that this stuff goes on at all the schools a WHOLE lot more than what is reported. So...why does it seem some schools come out front and center as having more kids getting in trouble. Georgia has a lot that get into trouble...but in fairness, MOST of the time it is small stuff in comparison. Auburn and Alabama has had relatively fewer reported...but some of those have been armed robbery, assault etc.

A&M is getting hit lately as is Tennessee, while South Carolina and Missouri usually flies under the radar. I think as a whole discipline is probably handled similarly, so why do some schools APPEAR to have more problems than others?

Got an opinion?

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IMO it has to do with better recruiting/evaluating kids out of HS to ensure that they are good kids from good families, and then maintaining a constant and close relationship with those kids that are recruited into the program: identifying team leaders of good character and giving them responsibility to keep the younger players in line and teach them the proper way to be teammates.

IMO Spurrier has always had a good bead on having disciplined teams, even before coming to USC. In his early years in Columbia, USC had a ton of issues, arrests, team/school violations, etc. etc. It was a slow but steady process for SOS and his staff to improve team character, and we just happen to be at the apex of their efforts.

And there's no "agreements" with any PDs around Columbia/USC. The Columbia PD not only has a history of giving ZERO leniency towards USC student-athletes, but the general opinion has been that they seem to target them. And the local news media had reports out of arrests within minutes of them happening, it always seemed. I'm glad for the extended period of silence from the law enforcement, and hope it continues....

Here's a good overview of how much Victor Hampton was kept in check at USCe:

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Oh, and SPurrier is no better or worse than any other coach. A metric shite-tonne of crap was allowed to slide in Gainesville under his watch. He just talks a good game.

For the most part, Steve Spurrier is a giant douche, recognized as such throughout the land.

And he's one of the best college coaches in recent memory at simply looking the other way. So if he has no clue what his players are really up to off the field, it's by conscious choice and sheer lack of effort. His program in Florida was dirty as shite, but he was very good at making sure he never knew anything about it. He admits to being a lazy coach in terms of the time he puts into the job, and that is certainly part of it.

Unfortunately for the c*ck fan, though, unlike his time with the gators, his slack-arse way with checking on his players' actions off the field has yet to result in even one championship.

So - congrats?