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I would say they once were, but not so much any more. Or, no more lax than they are with any student. But, there's a LOT of weed on that campus, so they practically have to see you use to make a deal of it. It's when you do something else stupid that it gets brought up. Like in the UGA case. I know these are just kids, but it's just irresponsible to have residue in your car or weed on your person, then do something that will attract the wrong kind of attention. Some people just need the arrest to get their attention.

Crap, man - I was lurking and your dumb arse made me sign in just to respond to you.
I grew up there - the TPD used to cover up the freaking coach's drinking problems 20 years ago (not Bear - he could do anything). The Tuscaloosa media LOVES an arrest of a Bama player - it gets so many clicks. There's no way they cover stuff up.
The car was running, so the LAW says that there was a potential DUI taking place. The hearing has been postponed until the first of the year. It was in the news - I'm surprised it didn't turn up in your search.

It was and is a shithole that too many people don't remember enough about. You could never be sure that your transportation would be where you parked it after a game, and there were no decent places to eat/drink anywhere near the stadium. The upper deck swayed in the wind, the bathrooms and dressing rooms were horrors from the 50's, and it was already a lousy part of town by the late sixties. They should level the place and never play anything there again.

Now you just sound like a sore loser, Grandad. Anyone who has actually seen more than the headline and the DA's remarks on Fox understands that the DA was protecting his own office by not prosecuting. The search was not legal, the stolen gun was not stolen by anyone in the vehicle (or none of the football players, at least), and the other gun was declared before the cops found it. There wasn't even enough pot for a regular stoner to be hassled by the cops - anyone else would have been ignored or sent home. If you can't see that the whole reason this escalated to the level it did was BECAUSE these were Bama players in the car, then you are just being jaded. If this was in Alabama, then I'd definitely think some inside shite when down. But this was Louisiana - not even in a non-football area, but right in the home of ULM (LSU-North, whatever). REC got some pull, but not that much.
And if you got lawyered up like these guys probably did, you'd easily get off without prosecution. It happens every day.

Nice try, the NCAA!

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So they should pray that Bama coughs up the ball 5 times? Cause otherwise, they are fricked.

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Twice. 1982 and 1991. My sister twice as well. And my grandmother, at 106 years old, is the oldest living graduate of UA.