Four CT Football Players Charged In Rape Of 13-Year-Olds

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10. There is so much money involved in high scool and college sports now

that those who stand to benefit from having a successful football or basketball team will do anything to protect their golden goose--i.e., their sports program, at least the parts that enable them to make money, the revenue sports.

Meanwhile, the jocks themselves are raised with both a huge sense of entitlement and arrogance and a skewed view of what masculinity is.

When the Spur Posse jerks became so notorious, many sociologists and psychologists commented on how our society's out of control "jock culture" contributed to the situation. Jocks, especially football players, are one of our versions of "warriors" in today's society, and since unlike real soldiers, today's successful athletes are the ones who get the "booty"--in the sense of treasure and also, punningly, in the sense of women--that used to be divided among warriors after a successful raid or conquest, those who belong to this "warrior" class also feel entitled to get those "rewards" for belonging to that admired class. If the women aren't delivered to them as their status makes them think they should be, then by George, they'll just go out and "capture" a few, just as warriors would in a successful raid.