Three more Griz arrested, just as serious as before
Three Montana Grizzlies football players have been arrested for charges stemming from a home invasion near campus. Here's a quick summary from The Missoulian:
According to the jail, 19-year-old [freshman cornerback Jeremy Pate] was arrested on charges of aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, burglary and robbery. [Junior running back Greg Coleman], 22, was booked on charges of assault with a weapon, kidnapping, burglary and robbery.And [defensive end Michael Shelton], 21, was arrested on charges of assault with a weapon, burglary and two counts of robbery.
Oh, and there could be more:
“There are three or four people out there we have to verify their connection to this, but we can't locate them. We don't know if they have taken off or if they got scared off,” Ludemann said. “There's still some information we have to lock down.”
Coach Bobby Hauck's reaction:
“I'm sickened and embarrassed by this,” said Grizzly football coach Bobby Hauck. “This is different to me than anything else that has happened. There's some embarrassment to me personally. We do everything we can to educate these guys, and it's like having your own children get into trouble.“I don't have any details on what supposedly transpired. All I know is that we had three players arrested and we have 100 hard-working kids on our team that will be negatively affected by this.”
First off, I want to say I am not solely blaming Bobby Hauck or the administration. Even so, let's start this off with a big Stephen A. Smith HOWEVA. It's easy for anyone to say "a few individuals are ruining it all for everyone else." There are a lot of schools and a lot of football teams where a few individuals don't ruin it for everyone else by rampaging into someone's home, tasing them and smacking them over the head with the butt end of a gun. Remember, Michael Shelton just got here. This was after he left the University of Arizona because he was kicked off the football reason for disciplinary reasons.
I agree with what most people are saying, almost all of the blame should come down on these three individuals. However, someone has to tighten things up somewhere because we can't have individuals making these same mistakes.
