Amazing that people are complaining that AG is somehow responsible for the kids who get in trouble and leave. Maybe we should let them stay?
I just happened to be reading some old articles on a former Nebraska and NFL defensive lineman, Christian Peter. He was charged with multiple mutliple sexual assaults including at least one rape, other criminal acts, all before he finished at Nebraska. I think there were a total of eight criminal violations before he finished. I don't even think he was ever suspended. In fact, then coach Tom Osborne seemed to shrug them off.
We played Nebraska for the NC in 1995, and I heard a story from one of our starting OL about how one or more of the DLs from Nebraska was taunting our kids with racial epithets. I suspect it was Peter. (Peter was white and the kid whom I heard told my friend was black). Nothing infuriated me more about losing the game than hearing this kind of story, especially given that many of the Nebraska players themselves were black.
I'd much rather get rid of high maintenance, trouble making kids early since I don't think they're good for the program. We've won championships with some kids like this, so has FSU (Winston, among others), UF (probably 1/3 the team, or more), but I don't think it's good for us in the long run, or that it's going to be tolerated under this and future administrations.
I've had to spend a lot of years since the mid'80s listening to crap about the U and defending it. It tarnishes the academic reputation when you hear it among professionals, as I have in Washington DC and NYC. I hear a colleague describe UM as "Thug U." What happens when a UM graduate who is perfectly qualified, has a good academic record, applies for a job with this guy? Does it affect, even subconsciously, how the person with hiring authority views the applicant? Maybe. I'm sure people should overlook prejudices and unsubstantiated subjective information, but it's better not to continue this image. Fortunately, I think it has subsided over the years. If we kept admitted rapists (Blue and Figueroa) in the program, habitual substance abusers and underachievers (Olsen) in the program, it can only hurt. People who get in trouble constantly and underachieve eventually can be become a cancer in the program.
I'm sorry to him go, but after I read the latest report on his arrest, I knew it was necessary and inevitable.
By the way, I never attended the U, so don't have a dog in the fight when it comes to academic reputation and quality of the degree, but I would think that most people here should care. Contrary to some of the opinions, the name of the institution does matter to some degree in the future, whether in getting into a selective graduate or professional school, or jobs. i know it counts to some degree in law, particularly with the most competitive jobs like judicial clerkships and big law firms.