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Covering player's bad behavior is SOP among college football coaches.....and has trickled down to the high school level. My sophomore year of high school, half of the football team was expelled for starting a fight with a fraternity. Their previous behavior had been covered for and it escalated to the point that they thought they could break into a frat house during the day with weapons and send several members to the hospital--all because one football player had been ejected from a party at the house the night before for peeing in their shower. This wasn't even a Big 5 conference school. The ironic thing is the school had its best-ever year the next year once the thugs were gone.

College football has become divorced from the rest of the school. Football coaches make more than university presidents. Professors are expected to pass football players, and their bad behavior is swept under the rug.

Hernandez is clearly a bad guy, but he had help getting that bad. His murderous behavior was not a one-off that came out of the blue. He is still associated with an unsolved murder from his time in college.