I miss Washington, dammit.

[TTJ]

Twenty years ago, OTL could never have written this story without featuring UW:

Lawyers, status, public backlash aid college athletes accused of crimes
An Outside the Lines investigation of 10 major college programs shows that a number of factors have helped athletes avoid jail time and prosecution.

Paula Lavigne, ESPN Staff Writer

As a University of Florida running back, Chris Rainey was named a suspect in five crimes in Gainesville. He faced charges once.

Rainey's experience as a star athlete accused of criminal activity -- stalking, fighting, injuring someone with fireworks -- but ending up with a mostly clean record is not uncommon: From 2009 to 2014, male basketball and football players at the University of Florida and Florida State University avoided criminal charges or prosecution on average two-thirds of the time when named as suspects in police documents, a result far exceeding that of non-athlete males in the same age range, an Outside the Lines investigation has found.

Last fall, to determine how often crimes involving college athletes are prosecuted and what factors influence them, Outside the Lines requested police reports involving all football and men's basketball players on rosters from 2009 to 2014 from campus and city police departments covering 10 major programs: Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Some police departments withheld records citing state disclosure laws. (ESPN sued the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University for not releasing material; both cases are pending on appeal.) And not all information was uniform among jurisdictions.

 

[Fire_Marshall_Bill]

The Beavers have had their share of idiots.

 

[RaccoonHarry]

Twenty years ago, OTL could never have written this story without featuring UW:

Lawyers, status, public backlash aid college athletes accused of crimes
An Outside the Lines investigation of 10 major college programs shows that a number of factors have helped athletes avoid jail time and prosecution.

Paula Lavigne, ESPN Staff Writer

As a University of Florida running back, Chris Rainey was named a suspect in five crimes in Gainesville. He faced charges once.

Rainey's experience as a star athlete accused of criminal activity -- stalking, fighting, injuring someone with fireworks -- but ending up with a mostly clean record is not uncommon: From 2009 to 2014, male basketball and football players at the University of Florida and Florida State University avoided criminal charges or prosecution on average two-thirds of the time when named as suspects in police documents, a result far exceeding that of non-athlete males in the same age range, an Outside the Lines investigation has found.

Last fall, to determine how often crimes involving college athletes are prosecuted and what factors influence them, Outside the Lines requested police reports involving all football and men's basketball players on rosters from 2009 to 2014 from campus and city police departments covering 10 major programs: Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Some police departments withheld records citing state disclosure laws. (ESPN sued the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University for not releasing material; both cases are pending on appeal.) And not all information was uniform among jurisdictions.

Agree. Dawgfather had those bases covered. What was the name of that "fixer", the outside UW grad attorney who got football players off the hook? Pro bono of course, though I have to think he was tossed a few favors here and there from a grateful athletic dept. Shit, his work for Jeremy Stevens alone would have been big bucks. Ah, the good old days, when football mattered...

 

[unfrozencaveman]

Twenty years ago, OTL could never have written this story without featuring UW:

Lawyers, status, public backlash aid college athletes accused of crimes
An Outside the Lines investigation of 10 major college programs shows that a number of factors have helped athletes avoid jail time and prosecution.

Paula Lavigne, ESPN Staff Writer

As a University of Florida running back, Chris Rainey was named a suspect in five crimes in Gainesville. He faced charges once.

Rainey's experience as a star athlete accused of criminal activity -- stalking, fighting, injuring someone with fireworks -- but ending up with a mostly clean record is not uncommon: From 2009 to 2014, male basketball and football players at the University of Florida and Florida State University avoided criminal charges or prosecution on average two-thirds of the time when named as suspects in police documents, a result far exceeding that of non-athlete males in the same age range, an Outside the Lines investigation has found.

Last fall, to determine how often crimes involving college athletes are prosecuted and what factors influence them, Outside the Lines requested police reports involving all football and men's basketball players on rosters from 2009 to 2014 from campus and city police departments covering 10 major programs: Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Some police departments withheld records citing state disclosure laws. (ESPN sued the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University for not releasing material; both cases are pending on appeal.) And not all information was uniform among jurisdictions.

Agree. Dawgfather had those bases covered. What was the name of that "fixer", the outside UW grad attorney who got football players off the hook? Pro bono of course, though I have to think he was tossed a few favors here and there from a grateful athletic dept. Shit, his work for Jeremy Stevens alone would have been big bucks. Ah, the good old days, when football mattered...

You are thinking of Mike Hunsinger, but there is another guy who shall remain anonymous

He solves problems behind the scenes. When my bro took indecent liberties at Ravenna Park with his '89 Toyota Corolla, he was there to help

 

[MisterEm]

Twenty years ago, OTL could never have written this story without featuring UW:

Lawyers, status, public backlash aid college athletes accused of crimes
An Outside the Lines investigation of 10 major college programs shows that a number of factors have helped athletes avoid jail time and prosecution.

Paula Lavigne, ESPN Staff Writer

As a University of Florida running back, Chris Rainey was named a suspect in five crimes in Gainesville. He faced charges once.

Rainey's experience as a star athlete accused of criminal activity -- stalking, fighting, injuring someone with fireworks -- but ending up with a mostly clean record is not uncommon: From 2009 to 2014, male basketball and football players at the University of Florida and Florida State University avoided criminal charges or prosecution on average two-thirds of the time when named as suspects in police documents, a result far exceeding that of non-athlete males in the same age range, an Outside the Lines investigation has found.

Last fall, to determine how often crimes involving college athletes are prosecuted and what factors influence them, Outside the Lines requested police reports involving all football and men's basketball players on rosters from 2009 to 2014 from campus and city police departments covering 10 major programs: Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Some police departments withheld records citing state disclosure laws. (ESPN sued the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University for not releasing material; both cases are pending on appeal.) And not all information was uniform among jurisdictions.

Twenty years ago, OTL could never have written this story without featuring UW:

Lawyers, status, public backlash aid college athletes accused of crimes
An Outside the Lines investigation of 10 major college programs shows that a number of factors have helped athletes avoid jail time and prosecution.

Paula Lavigne, ESPN Staff Writer

As a University of Florida running back, Chris Rainey was named a suspect in five crimes in Gainesville. He faced charges once.

Rainey's experience as a star athlete accused of criminal activity -- stalking, fighting, injuring someone with fireworks -- but ending up with a mostly clean record is not uncommon: From 2009 to 2014, male basketball and football players at the University of Florida and Florida State University avoided criminal charges or prosecution on average two-thirds of the time when named as suspects in police documents, a result far exceeding that of non-athlete males in the same age range, an Outside the Lines investigation has found.

Last fall, to determine how often crimes involving college athletes are prosecuted and what factors influence them, Outside the Lines requested police reports involving all football and men's basketball players on rosters from 2009 to 2014 from campus and city police departments covering 10 major programs: Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Some police departments withheld records citing state disclosure laws. (ESPN sued the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University for not releasing material; both cases are pending on appeal.) And not all information was uniform among jurisdictions.

Agree. Dawgfather had those bases covered. What was the name of that "fixer", the outside UW grad attorney who got football players off the hook? Pro bono of course, though I have to think he was tossed a few favors here and there from a grateful athletic dept. Shit, his work for Jeremy Stevens alone would have been big bucks. Ah, the good old days, when football mattered...

**Jerramy

 

[pawz]

The Beavers have had their share of idiots the GOATstory.

#$75ksheep

 

[AZDuck]

The Beavers have had their share of idiots the GOATstory.

#$75ksheep

This one needs to live on eternally - it is truly the ultimate Oregon State story:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/tailgate/2007/02/ben_siegert_did_not_steal_a_ga.html

That, and also too, this:

We have the best rivals. Washington was basically the blond jock bully from EVERY EIGHTIES MOVIE EVER, and now they are the gang that can't shoot straight, and Oregon State is the ultimate cow (sheep) college.