A few years ago four players were arrested. Three of them were charged with rape. The other apparently didn’t rape the girl but just held her down. Just recently another football player was accused of rape. Some say Notre Dame has not done much to screen their recruits and ensure that they behave well.
And don’t forget that ND player who spit on a woman cop a few years ago, and got worked over pretty well at the station. Neither the student athlete nor the university wanted to make an issue of the old fashioned southern justice.
As I said, this is a test, and you’ve failed miserably, because you didn’t do you’re homework.
In the case a few years ago, Notre Dame expelled the players BEFORE the trial. In fact, it happened immediately after the charges were made. ND didn’t mess around. BTW, the players were found not guilty.
In the recent case, the football player was NOT accused of rape, even though shoddy press reporting implied just that. The female student had the player to her room and she accused the football player of touching her breast. It stopped at that — touching her breast. That was her entire charge. Read the DA’s report. It was a tragic situation but not rape.
Expecting ANY organization to screen people before they enter and achieve 100% perfection in foreseeing any future transgression is an insane expectation. It doesn’t work in school, business, nor the military (including the academies). Heck, we do a piss poor job pre-screening politicians, including a few of our presidents.
What matters is how institutions respond to the exception...the case where something out of bounds may have occurred. Do they give give actual transgressors a slap on the wrist or do they act decisively? Also, do they act prudently to ensure those falsely charged or smeared beyond the underlying truth of events are not figuratively lynched? ND doesn’t mess around.