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The story broke yesterday morning: 17 individuals (now 18), mostly students, were arrested in a drug sting operation at Texas Christian University.The drugs: Pot, coke, X, fake acid and other narcotics.
The rub: Four of those arrested were TCU football players including stand-out linebacker Tanner Brock.
The other rub: Head football coach Gary Patterson had his team take a drug test on Feb. 1 and according to one source 82 players failed. Brock said to an undercover cop that 60 people would be "screwed" with a drug test.
Here is what we know that the media stories are not telling us (because they shouldn't):
1. There is not a college or university in the nation that you couldn't arrest 17 people for dealing drugs. I'll go ahead and say 99 percent have and equally "bad" issue with drugs if not worse. And I could be wrong about that one percent.
2. TCU and Fort Worth cops are basically OK with making a low-level bust on a bunch of kids.
Hey, we've seen "The Wire." We know how this goes. You can take the easy way out, do some hand-to-hands, make some busts, put the money, guns and drugs on the table and let the media take pictures while you grandstand behind a podium.
That is what TCU and Fort Worth and any other law enforcement agency involved is doing. Grandstanding.
Basically, they busted Bodie, Poot and Wallace -- the corner boys selling a dimebag to some stoners in a parking lot. By all accounts, there's nothing major about the quantity of drugs being pushed here. Not like catching Nate Newton with a truck bed full of weed. This is minor junk: College kids getting high.
Hell, TCU-Fort Worth didn't even get Wee Bey, Stinkum, Savino, Cheese, D'Angelo or any mid-level players. By all accounts, they're not even sniffing the Avon Barksdale, Stringer Bell or The Greek of this operation. You go high enough up and you'll find those guys.
I'm not condoning drug use or distribution or anything. I do think it's overprosecuted and we tend to overreact to drugs. However, a law is a law and those drugs or the way they're doled out is illegal.
However, this is no shining moment for drug law enforcement. TCU hasn't rid themselves of a problem -- just 15 tuition-paying students and four football players. There's going to be 15 others willing to take their place. Stand behind that table where you've piled all the drugs and grandstand. It doesn't matter.
You've essentially re-confirmed what we already all know, assume and lived through. You busted a bunch of kids (ages 19-21), who will either plead down or spend a couple years in jail and parole out in 18 months. You've certainly put a major roadblock in their lives, but by no means are their lives ending.
Poot isn't your problem. Stringer Bell is and the university, city and media are ignoring this.
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