College football’s other season started off slowly, but is now coming on strong in the first full month since the end of the January Bowl Championship Series concluded.

No…not off season workouts and preparations before spring practice, not recruiting for the future of the program. No. This season involves DUI, underage consumption, public intoxication, firearm possession, and armed robbery…stuff Jeramy Stevens did regularly while he was at the University of Washington.

Increasingly, every year there is a plethora of offenses charged to the college athletes who entertain us in the autumn on Saturday afternoons. It is such a common trend that some mark the beginning of the offseason by the first occurrence of a criminal charge being levied against a football player.

How do so many of these high-caliber athletes get into trouble? Often, it is the influence of drugs and alcohol.

For University of Louisville’s Rod Council, it could come to be found out that drugs and/or alcohol played a role, but it starts with being a couple of states away from campus on a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.

Then you add in the extra factors of an uzi, armed robbery, a silver Impala getaway car, and you have another armed robbery less than a week after the University of Alabama’s T.J. Elder was arrested for holding up two students at gunpoint…for $26 (and now you can own a shirt that highlights the event).

“According to the incident report, Council allegedly entered the store about 4:15 a.m. and pulled what looked to be a 9mm Uzi on the clerk, who was the only other person in the store at the time. The suspect demanded all the money and the clerk’s cellular phone and fled the store. The store’s security cameras were able to catch the suspect leaving in a silver Chevrolet Impala.

Police issued a BOLO — “Be On The Lookout” — for the suspect vehicle. A Tennessee State Highway Patrol trooper located the car at a rest area near mile marker 447 on Interstate 40 in Tennessee and detained the suspect until Haywood County (North Carolina) detectives could arrive and take the suspect into custody.”

Really Rod? Really? I mean how dumb is this guy? It’s humorous, but also sad that this type of thing takes place. First off Rod, why are you two states away from school…on a Wednesday. Granted, the Louisville cornerback is from North Carolina, but I don’t know many college students who leave in the middle of the week to visit home at least 5-8 hours away.

What makes this worse in my opinion is that Council DID (emphasis of past tense) have a shot to be drafted next year after starting 10 of 12 games this past season. If he worked hard this offseason and had a solid senior campaign, he would have been a draft prospect.

Instead of determination and a strong work ethic…Council went for strong armed robbery. Way to ruin your life Rod.

The university’s football program has rightly cut ties with Mr. Council, but they still earned points on the 2008 Fulmer Cup scoreboard (which is humorous and saddening as well). Congratulations to that Mr. Council and the school you will no longer play for.

Shotgun Spratling

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