Football Announcers bother me

Last night I was watching the Virginia Tech-Maryland game on ESPN when the announcers told me that because he is playing well they know that Marcus Vick is maturing. What is the relationship between learning how to read a defense and avoid a blitz and learning how to be a good citizen who no longer contributes to the delinquency of minors or drives recklessly while high? I just don't see it. It seems to be the business of those who make their living off of college football to try and sell the sport as some grand personal development strategy. I don't buy it. While talking to my father about this, he's a former high school all-american and UT football player, he laughed and said he's never understood that connection that people try to make between football and life. Another thing that bothered me was the constant references to Frank Beamer as some sort of ultra-classy saint who never would dream of doing anything questionable. The fact that his players were getting called for unsportsmanlike conduct, dancing off to the side, and having an official stop play to admonish them to just play football and quit with the showboating, only made it that much more humorous. Beamer may be a really nice, personable guy, but he still should be held accountable for the fact that VaTech consistently has more players arrested and suspended than most other programs. It's the same story with people like Bobby Bowden. Sure he's a nice, charismatic guy, but he still built his success on some awfully shady characters. There are some coaches who seem to be genuinely good guys who care about preserving the reputation of their institutions, but they tend to get mocked in the media. Everybody loves Mack Brown but he gets treated luck this sort of bumbling idiot of coaches. He's clearly very good at his job. It's nice that his players don't leave school early for the pros, but I do find it troubling that the overwhelming majority don't seem to be graduating. They're not arrested quite as often as at other schools, which is nice.