PLaw
8/9/2011, 07:22 PM
While we have had our share of issues, the folks down South are rivalling the "U" for the new thug university title. Man, how does Mack still have a job?
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From one of my TTU buddies:
The Whorn football program at its best. I am sure I missed several but this is a decent list.
April 2002: Cedric Benson is arrested for marijuana possession at a party to which the police were called. Charges are dropped in May.
May 2002: Brock Edwards is arrested for assault following a fight at a frat party in which he ends up stomping on some guys head. He is later given probation.
May 2003: Edorian McCullough, Larry Dibbles, Selvin Young, and Aaron Harris are all driving in a car which gets pulled over. Cops find a bag of weed stuffed in an air vent and arrest all of them with possession. Charges are dropped against all of them in July.
October 2003: Cedric Benson (INCIDENT #2) kicks in the door to an apartment to supposedly try and recover a stolen TV. Except he breaks into the wrong apartment. He is arrested for criminal trespassing and sentenced to eight days in jail, none of which he ever serves because of "overcrowding."
November 2003: Matt Nordgren and Cedric Griffin "confront a UT student" for an unknown reason and prevent him from calling the police. Griffin is charged with interference with an emergency phone call, and Nordgren is charged with criminal mischief.
December 2004: Freshman RB Eric Hardeman is arrested with marijuana, several bags of cocaine, and $3,774 in cash. Hardeman also had academic issues at the time, and is thus kicked off the team, only to eventually get busted again for dealing drugs.
November 2005: Myron Hardy gets into a fight and pulls out a butterfly knife during the altercation. He is arrested on the weapons charge. Mack actually kicks him off the team for this in conjunction with academic issues, the guy apparently actually faces the charges, and he rejoined the team in 08 for his senior year.
December 2005: Cedric Griffin (INCIDENT #2) and Ramonce Taylor are investigated in connection with a beating and robbery. It is announced that they will not be charged on December 17th, after a ESPN source with APD reports that they had interestingly had the upcoming NC game as the deadline of whether or not to file charges.
May 2006: Ramonce Taylor (INCIDENT #2) is involved in a large fight in which officers on scene report that Taylor threatened to come back with a gun. More officers arrive to handle the fight, and Ramonce wants them to go after a guy who busted out his window during the melee. Unfortunately, the cops find 5 pounds of weed and a bullet in his car and arrest him on felony charges, which he actually faces because Mack kicks him off the team for his second incident in conjuction with academic troubles.
August 2006: Former player Marco Martin is charged with molestation of a 6-year-old boy. I don't know what happened with this, and honestly, I don't want to find out.
September 2006: Tarell Brown, Tyrell Gatewood, and former player Aaron Harris (INCIDENT #2) are pulled over in their swerving vehicle. Marijuana is found in the car, and Brown is passed out in the back with a loaded gun in his lap. Brown and Gatewood have the drug charges dropped, and miss one game. I couldn't find what happened with the gun charge, if anything.
February 2007: Ahmard Howard and Brandon Collins are charged with drug possession. As usual, they pass the university-administered drug test which apparently isn't a conflict of interest for reasons I'll never know, and both avoid suspension.
March 2007: Tarell Brown (INCIDENT #2) is arrested for possession of marijuana. As expected, he passes a university-administered drug test and misses no time.
June 2007: Henry Melton gets arrested for DWI on 6th Street. Melton gets a 3-game suspension for the OOC schedule.
June 2007: Robert Joseph is caught taking items from cars in a parking lot, and runs from the police when his story about who owns these cars begins not to check out. He breaks into another car and hides, but is eventually caught by police, arrested, and charged with burglarizing a vehicle. Joseph is kicked off the team for also having academic issues at the time.
July 2007: Sergio Kindle gets arrested for DWI. Much like Melton, he gets the OOC suspension and nothing more.
July 2007: Robert Joseph (INCIDENT #2) and Dre Jones commit armed robbery. They threaten to kill the 14-year-old in the residence, and steal various electronics. Jones is given the boot. There are plenty of witnesses, which leads into the next crime.
August 2007: This is my personal favorite. James Henry beats up the witnesses to the armed robbery committed by Joseph and Jones. During the assault, he yells that "b*tches deserve to get kicked" as he is kicking a witness in the head. Joseph calls him from jail and Henry tells him that he "whupped them n*ggas, fool." Unfortunately, the conversation is recorded. I'm fairly certain Joseph, Jones, and Henry all faced some serious charges, especially since they got the boot from the team.
September 2007: Former player Peter Gardere gets arrested for DWI. Apparently even the old-school guys can't stay out of trouble. I'm not sure what happened with this.
September 2007: Tyrell Gatewood (INCIDENT #2) and Ben Wells are arrested with an array of narcotics, including marijuana, Xanax, promethazine, and codeine. Gatewood missed his Senior year and Wells stayed on the team.
May 2008: Former player Cedric Benson (INCIDENT #3) is arrested for BWI, which is boating while intoxicated. BWI is typically a charge that you have to be belligerently drunk to get, and it sure didn't help that Cedric resisted arrest. He failed the field sobriety test and spent the night in jail.
June 2008: Former player Cedric Benson (INCIDENT #4) is arrested for DWI. Benson had driven through a red light, and had then failed the sobriety test. Despite refusing to take a blood or breath test, Cedric claims that he aced all the tests and that he's being profiled. The Bears release him due to his "pattern of behavior" and he is ordered to put a ignition lock breathalyzer in his car.
September 2008: Lamarr Houston gets a DWI following a wreck with another car. He is suspended for the UTEP game with Mack's "No Tolerance" policy.
June 2009: Sergio Kindle (INCIDENT #2) plows into an apartment right after the bars close. He flees the scene and avoids the hospital blood tests despite suffering a concussion. The team doctor treats him in the morning, and his lawyer, which he can magically afford after 1 costly DWI, floats a story that Kindle was "probably texting" at the time. Mack of course runs with this. Kindle promises to pay for the $8700 in damage with more of that money he magically has, and no charges are ever filed. Kindle misses no snaps.
October 2009: Kenny Vaccaro is arrested after assaulting a UT student in the gym. Kenny and his boys were throwing basketballs at this law student, who apparently threw one back. Vacarro can't take what he's dishing out, so he goes and clocks the guy. Kenny says the guy was trying to start a fight, because apparently law students want to singlehandedly take on a football player and his crew. Vacarro has missed no time.
November 2009: DJ Monroe is arrested for DWI. If you haven't seen the video, watch it here. http://www.blip.tv/file/3009940 It's about as damning as it could possibly be. He swerves around on the road, fails every test, changes his story, is barely coherent, and pukes in the cop car multiple times. And he points out his status as a UT football player twice. And yet, by mid-December, it has been reduced down to the slap on the wrist of "obstructing a passageway." Perhaps more appalling than the charge reduction is the turnaround time, given that DWIs often take years to be settled. Then again, it may be that whole "upcoming NC game deadline" at work again.
November 2009: Marcus Davis is seen driving around on a blown tire that's down to the rim, and apparently doesn't notice. He is pulled over and arrested for DWI and possession of a controlled substance. He is suspended for the Big XII CCG and NC, and is released from the team in the offseason. Davis has since transferred to Oregon.
January 2010: Brandon Collins (INCIDENT #2) is arrested for his involvement in an armed robbery in which he was the getaway driver. Collins asked a friend to buy drugs for him, and the friend ends up robbing the drug dealer. They abscond with the dealer's money and drugs, and are pulled over by an officer who finds the contraband. Collins posts $35,000 bond (yes, $35k) and is actually kicked off the team. Incredibly, these charges are dropped.
January 2010: Dan Buckner gets in an argument with his girlfriend in College Station. The police are called in, and Buckner is charged with criminal trespassing. He likely would have been okay with just this, but he decides to make the brilliant choice to resist arrest. Buckner has since transferred.
April 2010: Vondrell McGee is driving without his lights on and gets arrested for DWI. He blows a .125 and .126, well over the legal limit of .08. Mack suspended him for the Wyoming game, and the NCAA ruled him academically ineligible for the remainder of the season to effectively end his football career.
June 2010: Vince Young gets a citation following a fight in a Dallas strip club. Apparently he didn't take too kindly to someone giving the horns down, so there was an altercation, and Young decided to bail before the authorities arrive.
June 2010: Cedric Benson (INCIDENT #5) is arrested for a bar fight on 6th St with another patron. The bar staff separate them, and Benson shoves the manager of the bar and spits blood from a cut lip at a different bar employee. They escort Cedric out of the bar, but he tries to re-enter, and when prevented, he punches another bar employee.
July 2010: Chris Simms is pulled over. The cop smells marijuana on him, and Simms is apparently high enough to state that there's no weed in the car because he "smoked it all". He is arrested for driving under the influence of drugs (with his pregnant wife with him in the car, no less) and refuses a urine test. He then misses his court hearing. Simms' lawyers make his friend the fall guy, and Simms is inexplicably acquitted.
August 2010: Got to love this one. Rashad Bobino beats on a girl in public on 6th St. In a fantastic bit of instant karma, UFC fighter Roger Huerta happens to witness this, and doesn't take kindly to it. After a brief conversation about chivalry in which Bobino profoundly retorts by saying "F**k you, f**k these b*tches; I'll knock out any f**king b*tch I wanna f**king knock out....I'll knock your f**king b*tch *** out", he takes a swing at Huerta. Huerta KOs Bobino in a matter of seconds. Glorious. Watch the video here. http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=06122435-fea9-4358-91eb-330a87db4f24
July 2011: Career criminal Cedric Benson (INCIDENT #6) is arrested yet again, this time for assault with bodily injury with family violence. Results of the case are still pending, as Benson has two criminal cases against him at present.
August 2011: Christian Scott is arrested for assault with bodily injury. Mack has suspended him indefinitely, citing that once the legal process is completed, he will do what's best for the school, Scott, and the team. Anyone care to guess what that means?
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From one of my TTU buddies:
The Whorn football program at its best. I am sure I missed several but this is a decent list.
April 2002: Cedric Benson is arrested for marijuana possession at a party to which the police were called. Charges are dropped in May.
May 2002: Brock Edwards is arrested for assault following a fight at a frat party in which he ends up stomping on some guys head. He is later given probation.
May 2003: Edorian McCullough, Larry Dibbles, Selvin Young, and Aaron Harris are all driving in a car which gets pulled over. Cops find a bag of weed stuffed in an air vent and arrest all of them with possession. Charges are dropped against all of them in July.
October 2003: Cedric Benson (INCIDENT #2) kicks in the door to an apartment to supposedly try and recover a stolen TV. Except he breaks into the wrong apartment. He is arrested for criminal trespassing and sentenced to eight days in jail, none of which he ever serves because of "overcrowding."
November 2003: Matt Nordgren and Cedric Griffin "confront a UT student" for an unknown reason and prevent him from calling the police. Griffin is charged with interference with an emergency phone call, and Nordgren is charged with criminal mischief.
December 2004: Freshman RB Eric Hardeman is arrested with marijuana, several bags of cocaine, and $3,774 in cash. Hardeman also had academic issues at the time, and is thus kicked off the team, only to eventually get busted again for dealing drugs.
November 2005: Myron Hardy gets into a fight and pulls out a butterfly knife during the altercation. He is arrested on the weapons charge. Mack actually kicks him off the team for this in conjunction with academic issues, the guy apparently actually faces the charges, and he rejoined the team in 08 for his senior year.
December 2005: Cedric Griffin (INCIDENT #2) and Ramonce Taylor are investigated in connection with a beating and robbery. It is announced that they will not be charged on December 17th, after a ESPN source with APD reports that they had interestingly had the upcoming NC game as the deadline of whether or not to file charges.
May 2006: Ramonce Taylor (INCIDENT #2) is involved in a large fight in which officers on scene report that Taylor threatened to come back with a gun. More officers arrive to handle the fight, and Ramonce wants them to go after a guy who busted out his window during the melee. Unfortunately, the cops find 5 pounds of weed and a bullet in his car and arrest him on felony charges, which he actually faces because Mack kicks him off the team for his second incident in conjuction with academic troubles.
August 2006: Former player Marco Martin is charged with molestation of a 6-year-old boy. I don't know what happened with this, and honestly, I don't want to find out.
September 2006: Tarell Brown, Tyrell Gatewood, and former player Aaron Harris (INCIDENT #2) are pulled over in their swerving vehicle. Marijuana is found in the car, and Brown is passed out in the back with a loaded gun in his lap. Brown and Gatewood have the drug charges dropped, and miss one game. I couldn't find what happened with the gun charge, if anything.
February 2007: Ahmard Howard and Brandon Collins are charged with drug possession. As usual, they pass the university-administered drug test which apparently isn't a conflict of interest for reasons I'll never know, and both avoid suspension.
March 2007: Tarell Brown (INCIDENT #2) is arrested for possession of marijuana. As expected, he passes a university-administered drug test and misses no time.
June 2007: Henry Melton gets arrested for DWI on 6th Street. Melton gets a 3-game suspension for the OOC schedule.
June 2007: Robert Joseph is caught taking items from cars in a parking lot, and runs from the police when his story about who owns these cars begins not to check out. He breaks into another car and hides, but is eventually caught by police, arrested, and charged with burglarizing a vehicle. Joseph is kicked off the team for also having academic issues at the time.
July 2007: Sergio Kindle gets arrested for DWI. Much like Melton, he gets the OOC suspension and nothing more.
July 2007: Robert Joseph (INCIDENT #2) and Dre Jones commit armed robbery. They threaten to kill the 14-year-old in the residence, and steal various electronics. Jones is given the boot. There are plenty of witnesses, which leads into the next crime.
August 2007: This is my personal favorite. James Henry beats up the witnesses to the armed robbery committed by Joseph and Jones. During the assault, he yells that "b*tches deserve to get kicked" as he is kicking a witness in the head. Joseph calls him from jail and Henry tells him that he "whupped them n*ggas, fool." Unfortunately, the conversation is recorded. I'm fairly certain Joseph, Jones, and Henry all faced some serious charges, especially since they got the boot from the team.
September 2007: Former player Peter Gardere gets arrested for DWI. Apparently even the old-school guys can't stay out of trouble. I'm not sure what happened with this.
September 2007: Tyrell Gatewood (INCIDENT #2) and Ben Wells are arrested with an array of narcotics, including marijuana, Xanax, promethazine, and codeine. Gatewood missed his Senior year and Wells stayed on the team.
May 2008: Former player Cedric Benson (INCIDENT #3) is arrested for BWI, which is boating while intoxicated. BWI is typically a charge that you have to be belligerently drunk to get, and it sure didn't help that Cedric resisted arrest. He failed the field sobriety test and spent the night in jail.
June 2008: Former player Cedric Benson (INCIDENT #4) is arrested for DWI. Benson had driven through a red light, and had then failed the sobriety test. Despite refusing to take a blood or breath test, Cedric claims that he aced all the tests and that he's being profiled. The Bears release him due to his "pattern of behavior" and he is ordered to put a ignition lock breathalyzer in his car.
September 2008: Lamarr Houston gets a DWI following a wreck with another car. He is suspended for the UTEP game with Mack's "No Tolerance" policy.
June 2009: Sergio Kindle (INCIDENT #2) plows into an apartment right after the bars close. He flees the scene and avoids the hospital blood tests despite suffering a concussion. The team doctor treats him in the morning, and his lawyer, which he can magically afford after 1 costly DWI, floats a story that Kindle was "probably texting" at the time. Mack of course runs with this. Kindle promises to pay for the $8700 in damage with more of that money he magically has, and no charges are ever filed. Kindle misses no snaps.
October 2009: Kenny Vaccaro is arrested after assaulting a UT student in the gym. Kenny and his boys were throwing basketballs at this law student, who apparently threw one back. Vacarro can't take what he's dishing out, so he goes and clocks the guy. Kenny says the guy was trying to start a fight, because apparently law students want to singlehandedly take on a football player and his crew. Vacarro has missed no time.
November 2009: DJ Monroe is arrested for DWI. If you haven't seen the video, watch it here. http://www.blip.tv/file/3009940 It's about as damning as it could possibly be. He swerves around on the road, fails every test, changes his story, is barely coherent, and pukes in the cop car multiple times. And he points out his status as a UT football player twice. And yet, by mid-December, it has been reduced down to the slap on the wrist of "obstructing a passageway." Perhaps more appalling than the charge reduction is the turnaround time, given that DWIs often take years to be settled. Then again, it may be that whole "upcoming NC game deadline" at work again.
November 2009: Marcus Davis is seen driving around on a blown tire that's down to the rim, and apparently doesn't notice. He is pulled over and arrested for DWI and possession of a controlled substance. He is suspended for the Big XII CCG and NC, and is released from the team in the offseason. Davis has since transferred to Oregon.
January 2010: Brandon Collins (INCIDENT #2) is arrested for his involvement in an armed robbery in which he was the getaway driver. Collins asked a friend to buy drugs for him, and the friend ends up robbing the drug dealer. They abscond with the dealer's money and drugs, and are pulled over by an officer who finds the contraband. Collins posts $35,000 bond (yes, $35k) and is actually kicked off the team. Incredibly, these charges are dropped.
January 2010: Dan Buckner gets in an argument with his girlfriend in College Station. The police are called in, and Buckner is charged with criminal trespassing. He likely would have been okay with just this, but he decides to make the brilliant choice to resist arrest. Buckner has since transferred.
April 2010: Vondrell McGee is driving without his lights on and gets arrested for DWI. He blows a .125 and .126, well over the legal limit of .08. Mack suspended him for the Wyoming game, and the NCAA ruled him academically ineligible for the remainder of the season to effectively end his football career.
June 2010: Vince Young gets a citation following a fight in a Dallas strip club. Apparently he didn't take too kindly to someone giving the horns down, so there was an altercation, and Young decided to bail before the authorities arrive.
June 2010: Cedric Benson (INCIDENT #5) is arrested for a bar fight on 6th St with another patron. The bar staff separate them, and Benson shoves the manager of the bar and spits blood from a cut lip at a different bar employee. They escort Cedric out of the bar, but he tries to re-enter, and when prevented, he punches another bar employee.
July 2010: Chris Simms is pulled over. The cop smells marijuana on him, and Simms is apparently high enough to state that there's no weed in the car because he "smoked it all". He is arrested for driving under the influence of drugs (with his pregnant wife with him in the car, no less) and refuses a urine test. He then misses his court hearing. Simms' lawyers make his friend the fall guy, and Simms is inexplicably acquitted.
August 2010: Got to love this one. Rashad Bobino beats on a girl in public on 6th St. In a fantastic bit of instant karma, UFC fighter Roger Huerta happens to witness this, and doesn't take kindly to it. After a brief conversation about chivalry in which Bobino profoundly retorts by saying "F**k you, f**k these b*tches; I'll knock out any f**king b*tch I wanna f**king knock out....I'll knock your f**king b*tch *** out", he takes a swing at Huerta. Huerta KOs Bobino in a matter of seconds. Glorious. Watch the video here. http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=06122435-fea9-4358-91eb-330a87db4f24
July 2011: Career criminal Cedric Benson (INCIDENT #6) is arrested yet again, this time for assault with bodily injury with family violence. Results of the case are still pending, as Benson has two criminal cases against him at present.
August 2011: Christian Scott is arrested for assault with bodily injury. Mack has suspended him indefinitely, citing that once the legal process is completed, he will do what's best for the school, Scott, and the team. Anyone care to guess what that means?