If you're a Michigan State Spartan Alum or current member in the community, you've heard all the hoopla regarding the Michigan State Football team and their extracurricular activities off the field in recent years. If not, I'll fill you in now! Kirk Cousins and Andrew Maxwell are quarterbacks at Michigan State who look like your all-american boys involved in Athletes in Action, did well in school and participate in community outreach. Truth is, they are, but teammates in the past such as Glenn Winston and Myles White are not the straightest arrows MSU has seen.
In recent years Glenn Winston, a former member of the Spartan football team, was not only charged and served jail time for one brutal assault, but has now been charged for a second after being let back on the football team after the first assault. Myles White, along with a handful of other spartan football players were also seen as involved with Winston in the second assault, not to mention White caught for urinating in public. These football players were not able to participate in the Alamo Bowl last year.
The mischief does not end with these football guys, but Dion Sims is now apart of the club. Dion and his dad are among 10 people who face charges regarding over $150,000 of computers stolen from Detroit Community Schools and sold across the country.
It's no wonder Coach Dantonio doesn't take this kind of risk with his quarterback recruiting, and hopefully in years to come the Spartan program will learn from these costly life altering mistakes. Cousins is 1 of 10 finalists for the Wuerffel Trophy and Maxwell was recently named one of Michigan State's Student-Athletes of the Month.
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