Sad Day For ND Football Program and Universty

[AZ BU Fan]

ND reputation taking a beating, pardon the pun, over two football players who were drunk and tried to avoid a police raid of the house they were partying in.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...ntation-police

ND QB Tommy Rees was chased down by a local police officer after he jumped a fence and took off. Alledgedly, the kid kneed the officer and wrestled him down to the ground, and violently resisted arrest. The police officer who was wrestled to the ground suffered lacerations.

The other ND player, LB Carlos Calabrese, alledgedly threatened a police officer after trying to influence police officers to let them go since they were ND football players.

When the officer didn't relent, the player threated the officer telling him 'my people are going to get you'. He actually repeated this threat a second time for good measure.

ND sadly appears to be no better/worse than other big time football programs.

Disappointing... particularly for a University who likes to portray themselves as being above the fray with their student athletes.

What will be really disappointing is if they manage to escape prosecution, jail time (particularly for fighting and injuring a police officer), or significant punishment by the University and/or Football Program.

None of this 1 game suspension stuff or runing stadium steps each morning.

If a non athlete student had done the same thing, I am guessing they'd be dropped from school.

[BUFanatic]

I don't think Coach K will let him see the field again. As an ND fan, I hope Reese and Calabrese get all scholies taken away. I wouldn't exactly say this reflects on the ND football program, everyone has their bad eggs and the University isn't making a cover up attempt at this.

[real fan]

I don't think Coach K will let him see the field again. As an ND fan, I hope Reese and Calabrese get all scholies taken away. I wouldn't exactly say this reflects on the ND football program, everyone has their bad eggs and the University isn't making a cover up attempt at this.

Other schools have just as many problems with the student athletes , the main difference is how a school decides to punish said players as I expect these players to more then likely be dismissed by the University where if they attended SEC schools then the punishment would not be so severe.

[Southside]

ND

If this happened at Texas or Alabama we would never have heard about it. Reese has been charged with 4 misdemeanors. Probably will be nothing more than community service when all is said and done. They should definitely miss a few games. I don't think there is any question though that ND is pretty strict on athletes when it comes to violating rules/laws. Athletes have been kicked out of ND for offenses that at other schools would result in missing a half of a cake walk game.