USMA Football Scandal

[Razor]

Since bad news doesn't get better with age (something the school leadership needs to get "reblued" on):

http://gazette.com/report-west-point...rticle/1540172

Report: West Point football team recruited high school athletes with booze, women

The Army football team wooed recruits this year with an alcohol-fueled party, a dinner date with female cadets, cash from boosters and VIP treatment on a party bus complete with cheerleaders and a police escort, documents obtained by The Gazette show.

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., which acknowledged the misconduct to The Gazette, disciplined 20 cadets for promoting underage drinking and other misdeeds and self-reported a recruiting violation to the NCAA. Two officers were reprimanded along with a pair of coaches. Those involved, though, avoided more serious punishments, including dismissal from the academy for cadets and courts-martial for officers.

The football players involved, including Army starting quarterback Angel Santiago, are expected to be on the field at West Point's Michie Stadium when Army takes on the Air Force Academy on Nov. 1.

The nation's oldest military academy said that it dealt with the cadets involved harshly.

"Although seen as a minor infraction by the NCAA, the U.S. Military Academy takes this very seriously and adjudicated this at the highest level of the disciplinary code," West Point said in a statement. "We adjudicated this under Article 10 of the Cadet Disciplinary Code and all cadets appeared before the Commandant's Disciplinary Board."

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[Sdiver]

Getting beat by Navy for the past 12 years, I guess they'd try anything to get good players.

[PedOncoDoc]

They should field an all-female team for the next 5-10 years as a safer social experiment and a necessary intermediate step before putting women in combat arms.

Of course, they'd likely still have to recruit with booze and women to field a decent team.

[abc_123]

Originally Posted by Sdiver

Getting beat by Navy for the past 12 years, I guess they'd try anything to get good players.

The alcohol-fueled party must have been a prerequisite before the dinner date with female cadets.

I'm sure the female dinner date-ees were dealt with as harshly...

[Razor]

Sadly, I believe this is just a symptom of a deeper problem with fundamental leadership, at both the cadet and officer level.

[Radar Rider]

Originally Posted by abc_123

The alcohol-fueled party must have been a prerequisite before the dinner date with female cadets.

I'm sure the female dinner date-ees were dealt with as harshly...

One might think that all perpetrators SHOULD face justice. Only men, though, are guilty of under-aged drinking and any other nefarious act. The female dinner date-ees were all pure as the driven snow.

[PRB]

Well, if I were to be recruited booze and women would be the All American way to go I'm thinking.