As many of you may have heard, two Penn State players, defensive end Maurice Evans and defensive tackle Abe Koroma were charged with possession of marijuana after police found "a small amount" of wacky weed in their apartment on Sept. 2.

ESPN's coverage of the charges has generated quite a bit of talk from fans. As of 8:40 p.m., 262 comments have been posted on the subject.

Wible and I took it upon ourselves to analyze each comment to gauge the public opinion of the incident.

Our criteria was simple. We're going with three main categories:

Those who think Koroma's and Evans' situation is no big deal, those who think it is and the players were rightfully charged and those who are indifferent.

105 comments were counted as "no big deals". The line of thinking here is that college kids smoke pot. Even football players. A lot of these comments also included shots at other players at other schools who have been charged with more serious crimes.

29 comments were counted as "it's a big deal". The majority of these ESPN users feel as if Koroma and Evans have a larger responsibility to their community and teammates, and that drugs are bad, mmmkay.

16 comments were counted as "indifferent" or Wible and I are too dumb to figure out what these idiots were trying to say. Spelling errors were common in these.

BONUS RESEARCH:

3 comments called for Joe Paterno to be fired. These users blamed Paterno for allowing his players to get hooched up.

2 comments were racially charged. We can't count these for anything.

1 comment in particular guaranteed a Penn State loss to Wisconsin this season. We're guessing this guy's from Madison.

DISCLAIMER:

Wible and I did not count every comment. Many people use the internet to simply rip each other apart and most of this thread we have studied has degenerated into an argument to legalize pot.

Those arguments disintegrated even more into personal attacks. We didn't bother to read too far into those.

--Travis