It would be interesting to see a historical study of this to compare today's athletes with yesterdays.Through an exhaustive series of background checks, the probe discovered that seven percent of the 2,837 players on the magazine's 2010 top 25 pre-season football rosters had been in trouble with the law... "Another startling number," Keteyian added, was that, "only two schools in our sample did any kind of regular criminal background check on their recruits."
"Striking stats" on college football and crime - The Early Show - CBS News