personally i havent heard too much about this. except when ramonce taylor and whoever he was with got arrested.
If I were on the team, I'd be too busy getting laid than committing robberies or DUIs. "Hmm what flavor should I have today? Latina or Latinasian?"
Pulled this off of another board a list of all the Horns in trouble with the law - I think that this is an eyesore for our program, but that it could be much worse. Most of these incidents involved Longhorn former players or recruits or players who were kicked off of the team. Sadly, there are 23 players that have been arrested since 2002. That said, many of them were either recruits, former players or academically ineligible players. (1) 4-27-2002 * Cedric Benson is arrested following the discovery of mar1juana in an apartment he's in in Midland. Charges were dropped. dropped due to illegal search and seizure, illegal entry and the fact that the MJ was discovered in a pair of pants owned by the homeowner which were folded up in a drawer, IIRC. Not sure if any suspensions occurred. (2) 2002 * Brock Edwards is arrested after knocking a kid out at a fraternity party & kicking him while on the ground. The kid required reconstructive surgery. I've got no clue why BE was allowed to stay on the team. I don't know the background on this one, but at first glance, he should have been gone. There could have been mitigating circumstances that I'm unaware of though. Not aware of punitive actions (3,4,5,6) 5-1-2003 * Larry Dibbles, Selvin Young, Aaron Harris & Edorian McCullough are arrested after Dibbles is pulled over by Police for failure to use a turn signal & mar1juana was discovered. A UT student (who was not in the vehicle) came forward and claimed the weed as his, and that he'd stashed it in the car when he borrowed it the day before. mar1juana residue was found throught [sic] the vehicle & the smell of weed was strong according to the arresting officer. Charges were dropped. This incident was widely attributed to DWB. The weed was found in a vent or something like that. Seeds were found under the seat I think. IIRC, several of the guys took drug tests that day and were cleared. Not aware of punitive actions (7) 10-07-2003 * Cedric Benson is arrested for breaking into an apartment to see if his stolen TV was there * Charges dropped no excuses. Apparently El Ced thought that his TV was there and had reported it to APD w/o a bit of recourse.... still, should have hired a PI or something. Community service and suspended for the Baylor game (8) 5-23-2004 * Recruit, Chris Collins, is arrested for sexual assualt of a minor after receiving a BJ & sex from a 12 year following prom. Collins was 17. * Currently at trial Scholly offer was retracted. Frankly, I'm not sure how this makes the list of "Texas Players" as he never signed an LOI. Maybe we should add Fred Rouse and Ryan Perriloux? (9) 12-14-2004 * Erik Hardeman is arrested for possession of cocaine w/ intent to distribute. Hardeman was, at the time, was academically ineligible and was not on the team. Obviously, Hardeman was gone forever after this incident, but the rumor is/was that he would never have returned to play for Texas before being busted with coke (10) 9-6-2005 * Myron Hardy is arrested following a 6th Street fight after the guys he fought told police he threatened them w/ a knife. Police discovered an illegal switchblade on Hardy. I don't recall this particular incident (they all start to run together) and I'm unaware of punitive actions, although I'm sure there were some.... being a backup, it's a lot easier to not notice a suspension than with a starter. (11) 5-13-2006 * Ramonce Taylor is arrested for possession of 5 lbs of mar1juana. Taylor was academically ineligible at the time and was not on the team. * A plea deal was struck & Taylor served time in jail. This is another that I'm not sure should be counted, as there was basically zero chance of RT ever playing for Texas again before this incident. Mack had "indefinitely suspended" RT with the intent of him never returning to Texas (from all sources I've ever read or heard) If we count RT (since he was kicked off of the team before this happened) should we also count Ricky since he was a FORMER Horn? (12,13,14) 6-04-2006 * Tarell Brown, Tyrell Gatewood & Aaron Harris are arrested after a loaded gun & mar1juana were discovered after police stopped Harris' car on Monday night before Texas/tOSU. Brown was charged w/ unlawfully carrying a loaded concealed handgun & mar1juana possession. Gatewood & Harris were charged w/ weed. The gun belonged to Gatewood & was legally registerd and the weed belonged to Harris, so the charges were dropped against Brown & Gatewood. Harris, at the time of the arrest, was a former UT player and had graduated the previous season. Harris = FORMER HORN so again, it shouldn't be counted. Brown and Gatewood were immediately suspended. Brown and Gatewood took drug tests and both came up clean. 2 game suspensions in effect for both Brown and Gatewood, IIRC (could be wrong) (15) 10-22-2006 * Former Horn & current Washington Huskie, Michael Houston is arrested after stealing a cab. Again, Mack had let this guy go a long time before this happened, not sure why it's laid at Texas' feet. (16,17) 2-2007 * Ahmard Howard & Brandon Collins are arrested for drug possession. I think these guys were recruits at the time. I'm not sure what happened and if either were charged or if punitive actions from the university occurred. (18) 3-22-2007 * Tarell Brown is arrested after his cousin is pulled over by police & weed is discovered. The charges were later dropped against Brown. TB took a drug test and came up clean. Also, he didn't have anything on him at the time. Brown was no longer a part of the roster at the time of this incident (19) 6-1-2007 * Henry Melton is arrested for DWI Stupid (20) 6-9-2007 * Robert Joseph is arrested for 2 counts of breaking into cars. Immediately released/suspended/allowed to transfer (21,22) 7-27-2007 * Robert Joseph & Andre Jones break into an apartment and rob the occupants at gunpoint. Joseph is arrested immediately and Jones is still at large. Joseph was no longer a part of the roster when this incident occurred. Jones is still only a suspect, even though this board has crucified him and decided he's guilty. I think it sucks that he's been alleged to have participated, but I'll reserve judgment until more info/court appearance. (23) 7-28-2007 * Sergio Kindle is arrested for DWI. Stupid
That number is staggering. It makes my blood boil knowing that smaller schools get severely punished for much less offenses. The NCAA is a joke.
actually when you go through that list there is really only about 6 active players that the charges stand up on and two of those were drinking. Its actually better than I would have thought. From what I have heard there have been problems especially after the leadership that left with VY and some other players. I'm sure its become a focus
For a major program this year its 2 DWIs (players still active- Melton and Kindle) 1 Robbery (brand new- Andre Jones) 1 Dropped Possession charge (Tarell Brown) 1 Robbery (player booted- Robert Joseph) These things do happen at other universities but if Texas truly wants to stay in the upper echelon of college football programs then Mack needs to get rid of this problem now before it gets any worse. He's built this program up to much recently (National Championship, top recruiting classes, arguably the best practice facilities and weight room in the nation, and now a major renovation to DKR-TMS) for it to torn down by the idiotic actions of a few players.
The dude on the right side could be mexi. And as for NCAA suspensions, the rash of investigations that hit UH shortly after a successful run in the SWC in the late 70s come to mind..
I wasn't born during that time so it never happened. jajajajaja!!!!! This is rather old news though. Some of you guys are slipping. Aside from the aggrivated robbery rap on Dre Jones, the rest I attribute to summer doldrums.
