# So Are College Football Students Above the Law--Or Just at Florida State? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-college-football-students-above-the-law-or-just-at-florida-state/704641 "2014-11-14T20:08:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-college-football-students-above-the-law-or-just-at-florida-state/704641/21 "2014-11-17T07:56:45Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > In other words, hate the game, not the player. I can hate both. I even have room left over to hate the media frenzy for ratings over every perceived bias. They’ve got a stake in creating controversy too. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-college-football-students-above-the-law-or-just-at-florida-state/704641/22 "2014-11-17T13:25:00Z")
Same thing with ISIS. Yes, they’ve beheaded a few people here and there, but what terrorist group hasn’t? Why pick on them? It wouldn’t even be news if the media outlets weren’t hyping up every little suicide bombing, head-chopping video and mass rape. And Polar Vortex this, Polar Vortex that… ever hear of a little thing called the Ice Age? No? Gee, I wonder why. That shit killed dinosaurs, and yet all we hear about is the stupid weather happening right now. Get your priorities straight! ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-college-football-students-above-the-law-or-just-at-florida-state/704641/23 "2014-11-17T13:37:41Z")
Oh please, ISIS should have gotten a post-season ban at least for their use of performance enhancing drugs but no one wanted to upset their boosters so they just lost a few scholarships. Meanwhile the poor Judean People’s Front get the Death Penalty for a few members putting up some graffiti… ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-college-football-students-above-the-law-or-just-at-florida-state/704641/24 "2014-11-17T14:44:55Z")
Fuck off! ‘Judean People’s Front’? We’re the People’s Front of Judea! ‘Judean People’s Front’! ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-college-football-students-above-the-law-or-just-at-florida-state/704641/25 "2014-11-17T18:06:36Z")
“Big Boys football” is a term, and a concept, that just needs to go away. Its definition is "let’s entice a bunch of good young athletes, relax the academic standards for them to attend, work them like dogs while they’re here and prevent them from accepting any financial aid that we don’t sanction (which is any of it) and get the idiot boosters and fans all excited about beating the school in the next state. “Big Boys football” is an American institution that needs to be eliminated because we become more evolved. Florida State is a slimy bunch of fuckwads, one of about 50 “Big Boys” programs to be so. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-college-football-students-above-the-law-or-just-at-florida-state/704641/26 "2014-11-17T20:08:32Z")
Ban football? I can get behind that. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-college-football-students-above-the-law-or-just-at-florida-state/704641/27 "2014-11-17T21:12:20Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Same thing with ISIS. Yes, they’ve beheaded a few people here and there, but what terrorist group hasn’t? Why pick on them? It wouldn’t even be news if the media outlets weren’t hyping up every little suicide bombing, head-chopping video and mass rape. Did you seriously just equate the coverup of college misdemeanor stuff\* with terrorists brutally murdering helpless hostages? Wow. Looks like we need a new term for Godwinizing. - Yes, I know about the sexual assault accusations and the situation stinks to high heaven, but in the end, it _was_ investigated and the alleged victim was found to be a not credible witness. By a DA who does NOT have a history of going easy on FSU players. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-college-football-students-above-the-law-or-just-at-florida-state/704641/28 "2014-11-17T21:27:11Z")
> [@dgrdfd](#): > > Large national newspaper sends a team of “journalists” to a southern college town to live for 12 months and all they come up with is a specious accusations of a hit and run, BB guns, and Burger King soda fountains. Exactly what they went to J-School for, right? Never mind ISIS, budget deficits, war, famine, Al Qaeda, and Ebola this is the important story! > > Specially as it relates to this case, > > So this is routinely done in Tallahassee. Everyone in Tallahassee has thought the TPD was completely inept, _different from corrupt_, since forever. But you send a big-time newspaper there and look for incidents and do FOIA on FSU football players and you will find them. Just as you would in Happy Valley, Tuscaloosa, New Orleans, The Plains, Athens, etc. etc. So yes, Water is Wet. Strike Athens from your list. The cops there have a major beef with football players and don’t give a flying fuck about what the school or AD has to say about it. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-college-football-students-above-the-law-or-just-at-florida-state/704641/29 "2014-11-18T13:43:04Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > … Wow. Looks like we need a new term for Godwinizing… Can I suggesting “Putting ISISing on the cake?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-college-football-students-above-the-law-or-just-at-florida-state/704641.md?page=1)