Over the last decade, the SEC's reputation off the field was as bad as it gets.
Urban Meyer was running a program at Florida that had 31 arrests during his tenure, according to Ken Bradley of Sporting News. Auburn had an offseason to forget following its 2010 national championship, including an incident in which four Tigers were charged with first-degree robbery in March of 2011, according to Charles Goldberg, formerly of AL.com.
Mike Rosenberg, a freelance reporter formerly of the San Jose Mercury News (via FoxSports.com), tallied up the five-year arrest totals of all FBS programs last summer, and it shed a disturbing light on the conference.