Use of Background Checks Intensifies in Collegiate Athletics

By Mark Henricks   After University of Texas football player Robert Jones was arrested in June in Austin and charged with burglarizing two cars, Texas athletic officials learned he had received deferred adjudication for two more misdemeanors, one for possessing drugs and one for evading arrest, while in high school in Port Arthur, Texas. Texas Coach Mack Brown kicked Joseph off the team, but the question of how colleges recruit athletes with prior criminal histories is not as easily dismiss