Thursday, February 16, 2012

TCU is now paying for some bad choice their football players and students have made. On February 1st, 82 of the players supposedly failed a surprise drug test leading to 19 current or former TCU students being arrested for allegedly dealing drugs. Four of those arrested were TCU football players- including Tanner Brock, the team's leading tackler in 2010 and an honorable mention on the All-American team, as well as defensive lineman D.J. Yendry, offensive tackle Tyler Horn and safety Devin Johnson.
And Johnson, thinking he was speaking to fellow students, told undercover police officers that a whopping 82 football players supposedly failed a surprise drug test on Feb. 1st leading the officers to be able to make the arrests. The four football players have all been accused of being involved with the selling of marijuana to undercover cops multiple times with the most recent time being Feb. 7th.
The university said that all students still registered at TCU who were involved in the arrests have been suspended.
The Horned Frogs, currently members of the Mountain West Conference, are slated to move to the Big 12 next year. Over the last four seasons the team has gone 47-5 and won the 2011 Rose Bowl. Until recently, the team had been one of the only teams ranked among the nation's top 25 that had players with clean police records. Which only makes one wonder how long they have been getting away with this scandal.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/post/tcu-drug-arrests-a-stain-on-football-program/2012/02/16/gIQA9es2HR_blog.html

4 comments:

Sonya said...

The fact that they are just now finding out about this obvious drug problem among the football players makes me think that their drug testing measures weren't very good in the past. I doubt that all of these players just started doing or selling these drugs.

JGusan said...

I agree with Sonya. Oh and GO BOBCATS!! :]

Vickie Lynn Pustka said...

OH MAN THAT STINKS!!! I wonder why they haven't been punished this whole time, since that guy told the undercover officer about the failed drug tests AFTER the fact. Oh I now I can't wait to see the spotlight on that when football season starts up again....... haha

and yes, Jessica, GO BOBCATS!!! :)))

Tess Jones said...

My roommate's cousin dates the football player named DJ that got arrested so it's been a whirlwind of drama for the past week at my apartment. We totaled up his bail and it's $18,000..yikes! Hope it was worth it.