re: Zach Price arrested for 3rd degree assault

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The athletic program of a state university shouldn't be a halfway house or a military academy. There's thousands and thousands of athletes who manage to make it through college without raping people or getting $2700 behind on rent or getting arrested for drugs or DUI. Lowering our expectations just means that the athletes will continue to lower their standards of behavior.

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You are correct. You do not lower your expectations, you set them and then fairly and consistently enforce them. For college athletes they will have a code of conduct that covers everything you mentioned. When people frick up, whether it is a one time big deal or an accumulation of problems, it should be addressed accordingly. Please let me know all of the examples that Mizzou and/or its coaches have failed this and need to improve.

Also your expectations need to be reasonable and attainable. Setting your expectation at some utopian concept that college kids should never get in trouble will just set you up for disappointment. That level of success in recruiting will never be reached by any school.

The worse meme of Mizzou message boards over the last 2 years is the idea that if you are not demanding change then you are settling for mediocrity. It is like a bunch of posters read a management style story in one of those magazines placed in the back of airline seats.