Re: Jeremy Elder arrested.
First, football scholarships are one-year deals, annually renewable. Worst case (and I agree with you that it might be worth the few thousand dollars to keep him on scholarship until the end of the spring term), we keep him on scholarship, but do not allow him any access to team functions, practices, training facilities, etc. until the end of May. At which point, unless it turns out the accusers fabricated the story, he's cut loose.
Second, the University has policies about any student, scholarshipped athlete or no, charged with felonies. Blessedly, I don't have personal experience with them, but I'd bet they're not terribly liberal.
Third, while the University may (and I emphasize may) have some obligation to Elder until the end of the spring term, it has a greater obligation to protect innocent students from other students known to have been charged with a violent felony.
What's worse...(1) get sued by an accused felon for abiding by the terms of a one-year contract, or (2) get sued by the bereaved parents of a beaten or even deceased student because another student, who'd already been charged with armed robbery, took it one step further? In a devil's choice, give me #1 every time. Any jackleg with a shingle from a non-accredited urban shoool of law could defend that.
Not sure I agree, rgw.
First, football scholarships are one-year deals, annually renewable. Worst case (and I agree with you that it might be worth the few thousand dollars to keep him on scholarship until the end of the spring term), we keep him on scholarship, but do not allow him any access to team functions, practices, training facilities, etc. until the end of May. At which point, unless it turns out the accusers fabricated the story, he's cut loose.
Second, the University has policies about any student, scholarshipped athlete or no, charged with felonies. Blessedly, I don't have personal experience with them, but I'd bet they're not terribly liberal.
Third, while the University may (and I emphasize may) have some obligation to Elder until the end of the spring term, it has a greater obligation to protect innocent students from other students known to have been charged with a violent felony.
What's worse...(1) get sued by an accused felon for abiding by the terms of a one-year contract, or (2) get sued by the bereaved parents of a beaten or even deceased student because another student, who'd already been charged with armed robbery, took it one step further? In a devil's choice, give me #1 every time. Any jackleg with a shingle from a non-accredited urban shoool of law could defend that.
