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TTJTTJ Member Posts: 4,821
Twenty years ago, OTL could never have written this story without featuring UW:
Lawyers, status, public backlash aid college athletes accused of crimes
An Outside the Lines investigation of 10 major college programs shows that a number of factors have helped athletes avoid jail time and prosecution.

Paula Lavigne, ESPN Staff Writer

As a University of Florida running back, Chris Rainey was named a suspect in five crimes in Gainesville. He faced charges once.

Rainey's experience as a star athlete accused of criminal activity -- stalking, fighting, injuring someone with fireworks -- but ending up with a mostly clean record is not uncommon: From 2009 to 2014, male basketball and football players at the University of Florida and Florida State University avoided criminal charges or prosecution on average two-thirds of the time when named as suspects in police documents, a result far exceeding that of non-athlete males in the same age range, an Outside the Lines investigation has found.

Last fall, to determine how often crimes involving college athletes are prosecuted and what factors influence them, Outside the Lines requested police reports involving all football and men's basketball players on rosters from 2009 to 2014 from campus and city police departments covering 10 major programs: Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Some police departments withheld records citing state disclosure laws. (ESPN sued the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University for not releasing material; both cases are pending on appeal.) And not all information was uniform among jurisdictions.

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  • Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,636 Founders Club
    The Beavers have had their share of idiots.
  • RaccoonHarryRaccoonHarry Member Posts: 2,161
    TTJ said:

    Twenty years ago, OTL could never have written this story without featuring UW:

    Lawyers, status, public backlash aid college athletes accused of crimes
    An Outside the Lines investigation of 10 major college programs shows that a number of factors have helped athletes avoid jail time and prosecution.

    Paula Lavigne, ESPN Staff Writer

    As a University of Florida running back, Chris Rainey was named a suspect in five crimes in Gainesville. He faced charges once.

    Rainey's experience as a star athlete accused of criminal activity -- stalking, fighting, injuring someone with fireworks -- but ending up with a mostly clean record is not uncommon: From 2009 to 2014, male basketball and football players at the University of Florida and Florida State University avoided criminal charges or prosecution on average two-thirds of the time when named as suspects in police documents, a result far exceeding that of non-athlete males in the same age range, an Outside the Lines investigation has found.

    Last fall, to determine how often crimes involving college athletes are prosecuted and what factors influence them, Outside the Lines requested police reports involving all football and men's basketball players on rosters from 2009 to 2014 from campus and city police departments covering 10 major programs: Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Some police departments withheld records citing state disclosure laws. (ESPN sued the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University for not releasing material; both cases are pending on appeal.) And not all information was uniform among jurisdictions.
    Agree. Dawgfather had those bases covered. What was the name of that "fixer", the outside UW grad attorney who got football players off the hook? Pro bono of course, though I have to think he was tossed a few favors here and there from a grateful athletic dept. Shit, his work for Jeremy Stevens alone would have been big bucks. Ah, the good old days, when football mattered...
  • unfrozencavemanunfrozencaveman Member Posts: 2,303

    TTJ said:

    Twenty years ago, OTL could never have written this story without featuring UW:

    Lawyers, status, public backlash aid college athletes accused of crimes
    An Outside the Lines investigation of 10 major college programs shows that a number of factors have helped athletes avoid jail time and prosecution.

    Paula Lavigne, ESPN Staff Writer

    As a University of Florida running back, Chris Rainey was named a suspect in five crimes in Gainesville. He faced charges once.

    Rainey's experience as a star athlete accused of criminal activity -- stalking, fighting, injuring someone with fireworks -- but ending up with a mostly clean record is not uncommon: From 2009 to 2014, male basketball and football players at the University of Florida and Florida State University avoided criminal charges or prosecution on average two-thirds of the time when named as suspects in police documents, a result far exceeding that of non-athlete males in the same age range, an Outside the Lines investigation has found.

    Last fall, to determine how often crimes involving college athletes are prosecuted and what factors influence them, Outside the Lines requested police reports involving all football and men's basketball players on rosters from 2009 to 2014 from campus and city police departments covering 10 major programs: Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Some police departments withheld records citing state disclosure laws. (ESPN sued the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University for not releasing material; both cases are pending on appeal.) And not all information was uniform among jurisdictions.
    Agree. Dawgfather had those bases covered. What was the name of that "fixer", the outside UW grad attorney who got football players off the hook? Pro bono of course, though I have to think he was tossed a few favors here and there from a grateful athletic dept. Shit, his work for Jeremy Stevens alone would have been big bucks. Ah, the good old days, when football mattered...

    You are thinking of Mike Hunsinger, but there is another guy who shall remain anonymous

    He solves problems behind the scenes. When my bro took indecent liberties at Ravenna Park with his '89 Toyota Corolla, he was there to help

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfwgmEn4oUc
  • MisterEmMisterEm Member Posts: 6,685
    edited June 2015

    TTJ said:

    Twenty years ago, OTL could never have written this story without featuring UW:

    Lawyers, status, public backlash aid college athletes accused of crimes
    An Outside the Lines investigation of 10 major college programs shows that a number of factors have helped athletes avoid jail time and prosecution.

    Paula Lavigne, ESPN Staff Writer

    As a University of Florida running back, Chris Rainey was named a suspect in five crimes in Gainesville. He faced charges once.

    Rainey's experience as a star athlete accused of criminal activity -- stalking, fighting, injuring someone with fireworks -- but ending up with a mostly clean record is not uncommon: From 2009 to 2014, male basketball and football players at the University of Florida and Florida State University avoided criminal charges or prosecution on average two-thirds of the time when named as suspects in police documents, a result far exceeding that of non-athlete males in the same age range, an Outside the Lines investigation has found.

    Last fall, to determine how often crimes involving college athletes are prosecuted and what factors influence them, Outside the Lines requested police reports involving all football and men's basketball players on rosters from 2009 to 2014 from campus and city police departments covering 10 major programs: Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Some police departments withheld records citing state disclosure laws. (ESPN sued the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University for not releasing material; both cases are pending on appeal.) And not all information was uniform among jurisdictions.

    TTJ said:

    Twenty years ago, OTL could never have written this story without featuring UW:

    Lawyers, status, public backlash aid college athletes accused of crimes
    An Outside the Lines investigation of 10 major college programs shows that a number of factors have helped athletes avoid jail time and prosecution.

    Paula Lavigne, ESPN Staff Writer

    As a University of Florida running back, Chris Rainey was named a suspect in five crimes in Gainesville. He faced charges once.

    Rainey's experience as a star athlete accused of criminal activity -- stalking, fighting, injuring someone with fireworks -- but ending up with a mostly clean record is not uncommon: From 2009 to 2014, male basketball and football players at the University of Florida and Florida State University avoided criminal charges or prosecution on average two-thirds of the time when named as suspects in police documents, a result far exceeding that of non-athlete males in the same age range, an Outside the Lines investigation has found.

    Last fall, to determine how often crimes involving college athletes are prosecuted and what factors influence them, Outside the Lines requested police reports involving all football and men's basketball players on rosters from 2009 to 2014 from campus and city police departments covering 10 major programs: Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Some police departments withheld records citing state disclosure laws. (ESPN sued the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University for not releasing material; both cases are pending on appeal.) And not all information was uniform among jurisdictions.
    Agree. Dawgfather had those bases covered. What was the name of that "fixer", the outside UW grad attorney who got football players off the hook? Pro bono of course, though I have to think he was tossed a few favors here and there from a grateful athletic dept. Shit, his work for Jeremy Stevens alone would have been big bucks. Ah, the good old days, when football mattered...
    **Jerramy
  • pawzpawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 21,467 Founders Club

    The Beavers have had their share of idiots the GOATstory.


    #$75ksheep
  • AZDuckAZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    edited June 2015
    pawz said:

    The Beavers have had their share of idiots the GOATstory.


    #$75ksheep
    This one needs to live on eternally - it is truly the ultimate Oregon State story:

    http://blog.oregonlive.com/tailgate/2007/02/ben_siegert_did_not_steal_a_ga.html

    That, and also too, this:

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    We have the best rivals. Washington was basically the blond jock bully from EVERY EIGHTIES MOVIE EVER, and now they are the gang that can't shoot straight, and Oregon State is the ultimate cow (sheep) college.

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