SEC Gets Tough on Crime.

Terry O'Keefe · May 25, 2006

It’s only late May. Still plenty of time for bar fights and borderline recruits submitting suddenly mutant SAT scores inflated to Mensa levels. But there is a relative calm these days. At least by SEC standards.

Mark Richt and Georgia have acted swiftly to suspend four players — and the fact there have been only four actually is good news. Tennessee coach Phil Fulmer has kicked off one player and suspended another. An Alabama player was arrested for possessing a stolen hand gun. Six Mississippi State players were involved in a bar fight.

But this docket is nothing like a year ago, when Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina exhausted the supply of public defenders and the conference from top to bottom looked like an episode of “Cops.”

“I would say things have been much less chaotic,” said Slive.

If this trend holds up, some credit should go to the conference’s partnership a year ago with the “Mentors in Violence Prevention” (MVP) program, which educates athletes in character development and conflict resolution. Over 2,600 athletes and coaches were exposed to 90-minute programs between September and April.
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SEC Off the Field Incidents are down

Jack O'Brien · May 25, 2006

... holding a student-athlete accountable for their behavior is a lesson.
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Mike Slive

And apparently a radical concept to the officials in these institutions.

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