{"id":3389,"date":"2011-03-07T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2011-03-07T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T18:40:10","slug":"twis-si-cbs-story-gives-prep-players-stupid-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-si-cbs-story-gives-prep-players-stupid-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S: SI-CBS Story Gives Prep Players “Stupid” Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week’s release of a study conducted by Sports Illustrated and CBS Sports was startling to any college sports fan.\u00a0 We were aware that the frequency of college football players running afoul of the law has been on the rise, but the SI-CBS stats gathered on\u00a0SI’s 2010-11 pre-season top 25 teams\u00a0exposed the underbelly of\u00a0athletic programs and\u00a0coaching staffs whose apparent part-time occupations of late have\u00a0been to shield\u00a0many of their\u00a0offending players from public scrutiny.\u00a0 The numbers are staggering.\u00a0\u00a0Numbers\u00a0aside, what can\u00a0current high school\u00a0athletes learn from these\u00a0disturbing findings?\u00a0\u00a0How about, Don’t be stupid?\u00a0 Admittedly,\u00a0we may be preaching to the choir here.\u00a0 A majority of high school student-athletes\u00a0are good kids and the fact that you are reading this blog makes it unlikely that you are stupid enough to, well, do something stupid.\u00a0 Nonetheless, when you get to college any number of athletes around you will have taken steps toward the dark side and might attempt to lure you into their sink holes.\u00a0 If at any time you feel that the people you find yourself with in college, athletes or not, have a “stupid” agenda, run the other way as fast as possible.\u00a0 Don’t hesitate.\u00a0 Go!\u00a0 What may appear on the surface to bean \u00a0innocent prank can quickly escalate into serious, life-altering trouble.\u00a0 When you recognize a bad situation, get away right away.\u00a0 Forget about how you will be seen by these knuckleheads.\u00a0 One stupid act can put a cloud over your entire life, forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s release of a study conducted by Sports Illustrated and CBS Sports was startling to any college sports fan.\u00a0 We were aware that the frequency of college football players running afoul of the law has been on the rise, but the SI-CBS stats gathered on\u00a0SI’s 2010-11 pre-season top 25 teams\u00a0exposed the underbelly of\u00a0athletic programs … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[10,26,56,57,222,79,94,111,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}