For college athletes, especially football players, getting in trouble with the law is nothing new, but many people may be surprised at just how common this is. One out of every fourteen players from the preseason Top 25 NCAA football teams in 2010 were found to have been charged with or cited for a crime according to the recently released results of aspecial investigation conducted by Sports Illustrated and CBS News.
A large number, nearly forty percent, of these charges were for serious offenses including assault and battery, domestic violence, robbery and sex offenses. In most cases the player had been found or pled guilty or faced some penalty as a result.
Despite this all being public information, in most cases the team coaches or their schools hadn’t seen it because criminal background checks weren’t done. In fact only two of the twenty-five schools routinely performed any kind of criminal background check.
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