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

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Pot meet kettle

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Appreciate that video, Gurley Man...it actually supports what I posted earlier: 2/3rds of those arrests took place in his 1st year at USC (a decade ago), with most of them players recruited by an earlier staff. All those Larceny arrests that happened on January 2005 - there are six of them - were arrests for acts that took place under Lou Holtz' watch. Spurrier, who was the incoming new HC as the investigation of those players were taking place, was only there to see them get punished. But they don't belong to him...

That video is a year old, and it showed 7 arrests over the course of the previous (at the time) 3 years.

One of those arrests involved RB prospect Ben Axon, before he even walked on campus. He never made it to campus.

One - against OL Kevin Young - the charges were dropped due to police brutality and targeting, and an indictment put out on the arresting officer.

Victor Hampton's was 2 days after 2010 NSD when he signed with USC.

The one for former back-up QB McQueeney was never verified by anyone as ever happening, as there was never anything reported about it other than by Clemson fans.

In March 2008, QB Stephen Garcia, OL Heath Batchelor, and walk-on QB Zac Brindise were cited for under-age drinking on campus by the campus police: they were NOT arrested, not jailed, and were not required to face a judge. They were given citation tickets and had to pay a money fine by a certain time frame (sort of like a speeding ticket, but no magistrate judge involved). Garcia was also cited later that day for discharging a fire extinguisher in his dorm building, but technically was never arrested for that either.

DT Byron Jerideau was arrested in Five Points in Columbia Jan. '12 for disorderly conduct which reportedly stemmed from a Jaywalking charge. The charges were later dropped and expunged from his record, as it was all over a misunderstanding.

Since the Tanner McEvoy arrest for a NC-specific law of driving under-aged with ANY amount of alcohol in his system, even if that amount wasn't enough to justify a DUI, the only other arrests have been of Jadeveon Clowney which was a case of mistaken identity, and underaged drinking this past March by OL Na'Ty Rodgers. Which is why our program currently has a point on the Fulmer Cup...