If they do, they are gone. We often kick players completely off the team before legal charges even come to fruition. Pinkel doesn't fuck around. When we kicked Dorial Green-Bekham off the team(#1 recruit in the country in 2012), the only legal charge he had ever been filed with was criminal tresspass (he had other things looming, and we booted him before he was ever formally charged with anything)
I'm not saying we don't have players that break the law, we do just like anyone else. Generally a misdemeanor will get you a suspension for a few games, a 2nd one is maybe a season suspension/possibly kicked off the team. If someone gets arrested for anything violence related, they are generally done immediately whether charges come later or not. Since joining the SEC 3 years ago, Missouri has had 10 arrests(7 separate players). 8 of the 10 arrests were marijuana-related. The 3 guys that got arrested twice are all gone. The other 4 players all served multi-game suspensions even though legally they got penalties that were no more than misdemeanor fines.
Mizzou, Georgia Top List of SEC Student Athlete Arrests | KOMU.com | Columbia, MO |
A lot of Mizzou fans actually feel that Pinkel is too tough on the kids(especially in the case of Marijuana incidents) and that it possibly hurts our recruiting, but he's kind of an old-school hardass, and I don't mind it.
Not every program necessarily needs to be that strict, but the other extreme is something like Florida State where you just let your star player keep on playing under allegations of rape, theft, and soon to be taking money(just like Gurley). They're going to ride that cash cow until the NCAA tells them they can't. Missouri pretty much never waits for an official NCAA ruling on a kid, they're long gone before it even gets to that point. Georgia could have easily let Gurley keep playing until the NCAA made a ruling. Florida State sure would have. A&M sure as heck didn't do anything to Manziel until the NCAA made them for his autograph ordeal.