For those saying Art Briles can't coach at Texas because "he recruits thugs"

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April 2002: Cedric Benson is arrested for marijuana possession at a party to which the police were called. Charges are dropped in May.

May 2002: Brock Edwards is arrested for assault following a fight at a frat party in which he ends up stomping on some guys head. He is later given probation.

May 2003: Edorian McCullough, Larry Dibbles, Selvin Young, and Aaron Harris are all driving in a car which gets pulled over. Cops find a bag of weed stuffed in an air vent and arrest all of them with possession. Charges are dropped against all of them in July.

October 2003: Cedric Benson (INCIDENT #2) kicks in the door to an apartment to supposedly try and recover a stolen TV. Except he breaks into the wrong apartment. He is arrested for criminal trespassing and sentenced to eight days in jail, none of which he ever serves because of "overcrowding."

November 2003: Matt Nordgren and Cedric Griffin "confront a UT student" for an unknown reason and prevent him from calling the police. Griffin is charged with interference with an emergency phone call, and Nordgren is charged with criminal mischief.

December 2004: Freshman RB Eric Hardeman is arrested with marijuana, several bags of cocaine, and $3,774 in cash. Hardeman also had academic issues at the time, and is thus kicked off the team, only to eventually get busted again for dealing drugs.

November 2005: Myron Hardy gets into a fight and pulls out a butterfly knife during the altercation. He is arrested on the weapons charge. Mack actually kicks him off the team for this in conjunction with academic issues, the guy apparently actually faces the charges, and he rejoined the team in 08 for his senior year.

December 2005: Cedric Griffin (INCIDENT #2) and Ramonce Taylor are investigated in connection with a beating and robbery. It is announced that they will not be charged on December 17th, after a ESPN source with APD reports that they had interestingly had the upcoming NC game as the deadline of whether or not to file charges.

May 2006: Ramonce Taylor (INCIDENT #2) is involved in a large fight in which officers on scene report that Taylor threatened to come back with a gun. More officers arrive to handle the fight, and Ramonce wants them to go after a guy who busted out his window during the melee. Unfortunately, the cops find 5 pounds of weed and a bullet in his car and arrest him on felony charges, which he actually faces because Mack kicks him off the team for his second incident in conjuction with academic troubles.

August 2006: Former player Marco Martin is charged with molestation of a 6-year-old boy. I don't know what happened with this, and honestly, I don't want to find out.

September 2006: Tarell Brown, Tyrell Gatewood, and former player Aaron Harris (INCIDENT #2) are pulled over in their swerving vehicle. Marijuana is found in the car, and Brown is passed out in the back with a loaded gun in his lap. Brown and Gatewood have the drug charges dropped, and miss one game. I couldn't find what happened with the gun charge, if anything.

February 2007: Ahmard Howard and Brandon Collins are charged with drug possession. As usual, they pass the university-administered drug test which apparently isn't a conflict of interest for reasons I'll never know, and both avoid suspension.

March 2007: Tarell Brown (INCIDENT #2) is arrested for possession of marijuana. As expected, he passes a university-administered drug test and misses no time.

June 2007: Henry Melton gets arrested for DWI on 6th Street. Melton gets a 3-game suspension for the OOC schedule.

June 2007: Robert Joseph is caught taking items from cars in a parking lot, and runs from the police when his story about who owns these cars begins not to check out. He breaks into another car and hides, but is eventually caught by police, arrested, and charged with burglarizing a vehicle. Joseph is kicked off the team for also having academic issues at the time.

July 2007: Sergio Kindle gets arrested for DWI. Much like Melton, he gets the OOC suspension and nothing more.

July 2007: Robert Joseph (INCIDENT #2) and Dre Jones commit armed robbery. They threaten to kill the 14-year-old in the residence, and steal various electronics. Jones is given the boot. There are plenty of witnesses, which leads into the next crime.

August 2007: This is my personal favorite. James Henry beats up the witnesses to the armed robbery committed by Joseph and Jones. During the assault, he yells that "b*tches deserve to get kicked" as he is kicking a witness in the head. Joseph calls him from jail and Henry tells him that he "whupped them n*ggas, fool." Unfortunately, the conversation is recorded. I'm fairly certain Joseph, Jones, and Henry all faced some serious charges, especially since they got the boot from the team.

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