Notre Dame Football Players Arrested On Gun, Marijuana, Battery Charges

Reuters ^ | 8/21/2016 | Frank McGurty

[dangus]

SUSPICION of marijuana possession?

[riverrunner]

Yes the typical clean cut Amish fellow

[utahagen]

The chances that even one of these tattooed thugs could recite a Hail Mary are low.

[nd76]

Max Redfield was kicked off the team within 24 hours of the incident. Devin Butler has been indefinitely suspended, and depending on what the university finds out about his situation, may be kicked off the team and/or expelled.

The four other guys riding in the car with Redfield will be running stadium stairs for the indefinite future (the gun and the pot was Redfield’s; the other four guys were “innocent bystanders”), and a disciplinary board run by the University for all students, not just athletes, will be investigating, and may impose suspensions or expulsions. Of course, the prosecutor in Fulton County, Indiana will have a chance to weigh in too.

You may hate Notre Dame, but other schools are far, far worse. Michigan, for example. A few years ago they had a star defensive back named Marlin Jackson (who played in the NFL). This scholar got in a fracas at an Ann Arbor watering hole with a non-athlete, and smashed a beer bottle on his skull. Jackson’s punishment was being suspended for one quarter against Central Michigan.

[Buckeye McFrog]

SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.

[blam]

- Roll Tide -

[utahagen]

nd76, I promise that I have nothing against Notre Dame. (Well, I am ticked off that the school gave an honorary degree to Obama and — much worse — an award to Biden for being a good Catholic, but that's a different story.)

I suspect the reality with the ALL the top football schools (not just Notre Dame) — sports fans, please correct me if should be wrong — is that their football teams are de facto professional teams, half of whose players couldn't make it through the freshman year at a good private high school. I've heard that BYU is an exception to that, but I don't know. I looked at the six mug shots of the six thugs arrested in South Bend and their race made no impression on me, but their tattoos, their nutty hairstyles, and their arrogant expressions didn't strike me as those of twenty year olds who've spent any time studying anything in their lives. When I read that 96% of Notre Dame football players graduate in four years, I thought, “Wow, they push kids like this over the finish line?”

Again, I am not picking on Notre Dame. As a practicing Catholic, I wish the school the best. However, I am becoming very cynical about college sports.