By: diddlede on 4/28/09
This is really sad. Will these young people ever learn? Now he is off the team and probably has lost his scholarship too attend MTSU.

By: ItsGood on 4/28/09
MT has a long way to catch up with the STate school in Knoxville.

By: Newbie on 4/29/09
The UT players have their share of problems too.

By: dbr2e on 4/29/09
ItsGood, You are an idiot.

By: Farmall on 4/29/09
You have to remember that MTSU has a history of recruiting out of the prison system.

By: devolver on 4/29/09
Footballers aren't typically known for their smarts... Second offense in five months, this fella has a problem.

By: willis5038 on 4/29/09
Anyone remember the two players arrested a couple of years ago on weapons charges? The 3rd string lineman was cut from the team, but the starting all conference player wasn't even suspended! Maybe MTSU should consder background checks on their athletes.

By: whizkid on 4/29/09
Come on guys? Try to control 80 18,19and 20 yr. olds that have been treated like superstars at their high schools. I assure you that the general population has a higher percentage of arrests than most football teams.

By the way, MTSU has a $27mil budget and UT has a $77mil budget. Not apples to apples.

By: zenu on 4/30/09
I'm totally shocked that an upstanding football player is implicated in this crime. It must be an epidemic considering all the footballers I see in the news constantly that are committing illegal offenses. Maybe we should all buy more tickets to games so they don't feel the need fight dogs, drive drunk, beat wives, burglarize etc... Football/basketball feeds on the hopes and dreams of the disadvantaged and cashes the check to support the GM or Dean.

oh and whizkid, back up your statement... or just leave it hanging to show your ignorance. and Im going to spell it out for you... cite your references on the statistics you have provided.

By: zenu on 4/30/09
Whiz, you struck a chord... Since when do adults need to be controlled? Ya wanna strap a shock collar on them? I can think about all of nobody I went to school with at that age who, coincidentally were not football playahz?, who did not commit violent crimes or larceny. Juggheads are better suited as janitors and not athletes. I should also say that I applaud all the upstanding professional athletes that realize the are setting examples for the kids that will follow in their footsteps.

By: barrettbear on 4/30/09
Should have been dismissed the first go around.

By: devolver on 5/1/09
Zenu: "By: zenu on 4/30/09
I'm totally shocked that an upstanding football player is implicated in this crime."... Upstanding? How? If this is his 2nd burglary offense in 5 months, exactly HOW is he UPSTANDING? And, really, I don't see how buying tickets to games is going to make the footballers not "...fight dogs, drive drunk, beat wives, burglarize etc..." They don't get anything based on ticket sales. They play the game whether 10 people show up or 10,000 people.

And whizkid's statement really doesn't have anything to do with the story.

And since when do adults need to be controlled? You do understand that there is a prison system for adults who couldn't control themselves... and, "...I should also say that I applaud all the upstanding professional athletes that realize the are setting examples for the kids that will follow in their footsteps..." Let's see, Michael Vick, PacMan Jones... that's a list that can go on and on and on....