Idaho State - Background Checks?

We are all aware of the nasty conflict concerning the ISU basketball and football teams. Well this article from the Pocatello Idaho State Journal indicates that we may see background checks for incoming students in the near future at ISU. No longer will just SAT and ACT scores be looked at, they have to make sure you haven't had any speeding tickets. This seems like something that if I were a potential student, I don't think I would like a college sniffing my crotch to make sure I'm clean. Plus it will cost the university time and money. Anyway, here is the article:

ISU taking wait-and-see approach to issue of background checks

POCATELLO - To work for the Idaho State athletic department, you must submit to a background check. To play for them, you don't.

But after a tumultuous fall - highlighted by a much-publicized conflict between the football team and men's basketball team - maybe ISU should make all incoming student-athletes undergo full background checks before donning the Bengals' orange and black.

There were rumors that the group of junior college transfer football players, who arrived in time for spring semester, underwent background checks. ISU athletic director Paul Bubb crushed the hearsay, saying, “Right now, we as a department have not gone to background checks.”

While Bubb's has many questions, his interest is piqued by the background check process. Yet, it is unlikely anything will happen immediately at Idaho State. The process isn't something you can implement overnight. It isn't completely up to Bubb, ISU's new incoming president and other facets of the university would have to be consulted.

“I am not philosophically opposed to doing something like this, but I think there has to be an institutional discussion on this,” Bubb said.

It seems logical considering a policy that sweeping would affect other areas of the university. However, background checks on students are already occurring at ISU.