The Quotable Dan Hawkins

So Rivals.com has jumped on the story of all of these arrests in college football and of course, CU had a big spot in that article. Hawkins had some great quotes and even pulled out some statistics. Rivals starts out the article calling for new football stats when talking about returning players- starters lost, returning starters and starters arrested. The article goes on to list prominent player arrests in college football this offseason and then states:

The NCAA tries to ensure that athletes aren't treated differently than ordinary college students. Yet ordinary college students often drink too much, smoke marijuana and get in fights.

Hawkins begins to chime in -

"I don't mean to get on a high horse, but 82 percent of college freshmen get drunk once a week. I guarantee you 82 percent of athletes aren't getting drunk. Show me an era in history where young men don't fight.''

He then goes on to say:

"There are way more kids that don't get in trouble than do. If you put every citizen that's arrested for DUI on ESPN.com, you could read that for 10 hours."

It may sound like Hawkins is making some excuses here but we all know that he is tough on his players (ask Jake Duren and Michael Sipili). He is absolutely right with his sentiments but the golden rule is that it is a privilege to play college sports. You can't have all the athletic success and praise and not get criticized for off the field incidents. Still gotta love Hawkins' colorful commentary.