The ostensible benefits of big-time college sports make it all too easy for university administrators to look the other way when jock culture gets out of control. Boston University officials did just that with the school’s hockey team for years, and are now starting to come to grips with the consequences. But unless longtime coach Jack Parker suddenly accepts the need for change — drastic change — the only way to fully cleanse the program would be for him to resign or be fired.
Six months ago, President Robert Brown convened a task force to assess the program in the wake of sexual violence charges against two players. The panel’s report this week portrays a campus where hockey players acted with impunity, and coaches and administrators failed to rein them in.
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It is not right but the NCAA has turned their heads on many college sports not just Boston University hockey. SAituations likke BU and Penn State are pervasive throughout the system. The federal goverment shuld regulate the NCAA
Great coaches build character as well as winning teams. They control their players and serve as role models. It appears that this program got away from Parker, and it also appears that the BU administration looked the other way.
Not that I agree with the behavior of the BU hockey team but I think you're being naive as to what's going on in colleges, and with kids in general. It's shocking to hear how casual they are about sex. It starts at the high school level, maybe even earlier now. Oral sex is like a kiss was 20 years ago. Guys routinely drug campus women through cocktails and sexually assault them. It's out of control and colleges tend to look the other way, especially if it's a scholarship athlete. Similar to the Catholic Church and Penn State, to name a few, it's more important to save the name of the institution than to correct problems that exist in that institution. I give BU a lot of credit for launching the probe but the findings point to a huge problem amongst our youth today, not just the problems at BU.