Rees, Calabrese arrested
Res Life will boot him. They suspended Kyle McAlarney for an entire year when he was caught with weed. I realize Michael Floyd didn't get booted, but Tommy Rees is not Michael Floyd.
Floyd was on his 3rd offense and got suspended for 0 games. Res life will not touch Rees, a possible starter for the same reason Floyd got off. Kelly on the other hand might suspend Rees just to make his 5-man qb competition easier to manage.
Have issued a statement:
I programmed this link to automatically show what color Kelly's face is at any given time:
http://twitter.com/McMurphyCBS/statuses/198032306764660737
While Notre Dame's Tommy Rees was resisting arrest did he turn it over in the red zone?
1. Use "A" when the following word begins with a consonant sound. Use "An" when the word begins with a vowel sound. For example, "You are an idiot for calling Tommy Rees 'a idiot'."
2. I'm pretty sure that spring practice is over since they already had their spring game
3. If the felony sticks, I doubt he needs to worry about missing practice because he will likely still be in jail when school starts again
BWAAAAHAAAAAAAAHAAAAA
As I was reading this, it looked like a typical incident where the police/PA/DA charge someone with everything they can think of as part of leveraging the plea bargaining process in the court's favor. The story says Rees "tried to run off and hit an officer in the process of being caught." This can mean anything from bumping into the officer to actually hitting him.
If he actually kicked an officer, unprovoked, he should be kicked off of the team. I don't know whether to believe that he did, though, until more facts are available. It's difficult for me to believe that he is stupid or arrogant enough to actually kick a police officer for no reason. I'm sure more facts will come out. It would be nice to see the police report.
In totally unrelated news, I hear that a school up in EL is looking for ex-QB's convicted of felonies to convert into linebackers.
They have already updated the story on ESPN and are starting to change the wording around. It now says "Trent says when the officer caught up with Rees, the 19-year-old raised his knee into the officer and they both fell in a scuffle." Still hard to tell if it was intentional just from that, but I'd imagine its a downgrade from what could have been "wound up and punched him in the gut". The fact that they are trying to decide whether there will be formal charges or not mean even if he does it charged, it will most likely be downgraded to DC.
Can someone please make a Brian Kelly GIF of his purple head exploding with blood shooting everywhere? That would make my day.
From EDSBS, some pretty excellent jokes:
HERE WE GO TOMMY REES JOKES
1) completely different than the Michael Floyd situation because even though he got arrested 3 times, he didn't assault a police officer, and Rees should get booted
2) this is a good thing because now Rees can't be the starter, allowing a RS Freshman who hasn't been able to find the field yet be the starter. And he will obviously be the answer over a third year starting upperclassman. BK really needed his hand forced because he clearly can't see that anybody but Rees should be starting as BK obviously doesn't know anything about successful college QBs in his system.
very logical points. However, when dealing with nd's football program "logical" thinking isn't apparent in regard to the method or outcomes of ANY incident in recent memory (past 40 years).
They are what they have become ... mostly irrelevant since the early 1990's.
Go Blue!
I came here to make a joke but I think they've all been made...
Did they make him back up fifteen yards for roughing the officer? Not great, but I showed up late to the party.
This has gotta be at least 3 Fulmer Cup points.
Making poor reads on and off the field.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I see this getting lowered to a disorderly conduct in a pleading deal. IF he's the starter, he won't miss a game.
NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL COMING THROUGH!~
Even more helpful would be some links to irish schadenfruede over the incident. we can rip on him all we want on here but it would so much more entertaining to watch irish do ti themselves.
Soon to be in the Headlines: "Rees Graduates With Honors"
"Yes, Your Honor. No, Your Honor...."
fergodsake!
he assaulted an officer without provocation, he should be charged. Otherwise, this entire incident is the result of unjust laws and/or inappropriate police force. He's an adult with adult responsibilities - including paying taxes and dying for his country. So he should be afforded the same right to drink a legal beverage as every other adult. Nobody (even the arresting police officers and our lawmakers) actually follows the absurd, immoral and unconstitutional drinking age laws.
Hilarious words from the ND 247 board:
"Do you honestly think he actually assaulted an officer? I don't. This sounds eerily similar to the incident that led to 41 ND students being detained and arrested after the MSU game a few years ago. Alot of headlines, but no one was ever charged with anything. The reason...alot of SB and Indiana State police misconduct in the way they handled the situation!!!!!!
It's unfortunately true in this country...we give guns and badges to alot of people we shouldn't."
...damefan1's youtube vid about this.
There goes ND's national championship hopes.
FYI, "enforcement," not "inforcement."