College is not for everybody, they already admit the kids who are supposed to be the best and the smartest of their classes. Football is for even fewer people. The phrase STUDENT ATHLETE isn't athletic student for a reason.
When high school graduates go to college to play ball and be in the lime light they are taking on the responsibility to be good citizens, students, and athletes. In that order. As young adults, they should be capable of understanding that commitment, and help held accountable to that.
It's sad to see that people have vaulted college football so high that nobody really cares HOW you win a NC. All that matters is that you win one, or two. Nobody cares that you won the NC with any type of class, respect, or integrity.
The college coach, like a father, is responsible for his players. Whether they are adults or not it is his house, his program. And it is his responsibility to enforce his rules. If they are lax, then you get lax players who get in trouble and arrested.
It is Urbans place to enforce rules that make his football team act like smart students first and atheletes second.
That's part of why we like ND, we do it, and we do it right.
