Why couldn't he wait until after the tOSU game to get arrested? Is there any chance he still plays?

he plays, that is.  This absolutely sucks.  Mack won't play him, and he shouldn't.  That will be the story of the week.  Colt should thank his teammate for taking the media burden off his shoulders.  Regardless of whether he is charged or tried, he must've made a series of dumb decisions.  Wrong place, wrong time, wrong upcoming opponent.

"He and Harris were both charged with Class B misdemeanors of possession of 2 ounces or less of marijuana."

TWO OUNCES?  Are you kidding me?  Kid's got weed for pocket lint and likes to play with guns.  Sure it was a bonehead thing to do, but if you've got a used pipe in your pocket and are holding your friend's gun, you've more or less pulled a Tarrell Brown. This isn't my way of excusing him or saying Mack should just ignore this and let him play - but come on, it's not like he's Ramonce Taylor.

Still, our athletes and all big-time athletes know that they're walking around with a big target on their backs and they can't be pulling the hijinks that normal college kids pull.

Maybe the pundits can start heaving the Miami analogies off USC and onto Mack Brown's program now...

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Ok, remain calm.  Only the biggest game since... last year's Rose Bowl, no worries.

:(

dangit, and the Fulmer Cup scoring closed wednesday, too; never would have caught marshall tho

Some of the comments above are just ignorant.  Handguns are used at that hour for one thing: to shoot bullets at people.  And anyone that is thinking self-defense: If you are a college athlete and you believe you are going to be going somewhere where you think you might be put in a position where you will need to defend yourself with a gun, DON'T GO.  This isn't Beirut.  This kid has options and he's in Austin.  

I am all for gun rights.  For defending of your home and for hunting. Carrying a gun for this sort of situation is not what the constitution is meant to protect.

Bottomline, I don't see how Mack will have any choice but to ask this kid if he had a gun and weed and if he says yes he will immediately have to kick him off the team.  Forever.   I cannot conceive of any mitigating circumstances that would make it acceptable for him to continue any association where the University is sponsoring him.

 

F'N IDIOT. Let me say that again, F'N IDIOT!!!!!

from the affadavit:

"Deputy P. Delafunte' then arrived and had Harris perform field sobriety tests. Harris passed these tests but told Deputy Delafunte' that he had been smoking marijuana. I thenasked Harris if there was any marijuana in the vehicle. Harris replied that there was "some". I asked Harris to sit in the rear of my vehicle as we made contact with passengers of the vehicle. Deputies Villanueva #1037, Delafunte' and I approached the vehicle.
As Deputy Villanueva looked into the car he stated that the rear passenger had a handgun in his lap with his hand on it. I then instructed everyone to return to our vehicle as we called for more officers. Sgt. Strawn and Lt Escribano then arrived on the scene.  We then went back up and made contact with the passengers. We first woke up and detained the rear seat passenger identified as:
Brown, Tarell 1-6-85
After detaining Brown Sgt. Strawn informed me that gun in Brown's lap was loaded 9mm handgun. I also detained the front seat passenger identified as:
Gatewood, Tyrell 09-27-84
Deputy Villanueva then conducted a search of the vehicle. Deputy Villanueva located a marijuana "blunt" cigar under the front seat of the vehicle. I observed the "blunt" and through my training and 7 years of experience believed it to be marijuana. The "blunt" weighed approximately 1.1 grams. Based on the fact the marijuana was in a common area of the vehicle and accessible to all occupants I then placed Harris, Brown and Gatewood in custody for Possession of Marijuana less than 2oz.. Brown was also charged with Unlawfully carrying a weapon. During a subsequent search of Harris' person Travis County Booking personnel located an additional .7 grams of marijuana in his front pocket."

Mary Jane... Marijuana.

Is there anymore to that affidavit? I just don't understand how Brown slept through Harris' field sobriety test with a gun on his lap.

Call it spin, call it the truth. Looks more like TB was hanging with the wrong crowd. Given the way things are framed and assuming a negative drug test, I cant imagine a severe punishment. Guess we'll see what the team thinks.

Details emerge on Longhorns' arrest
By Suzanne Halliburton | Monday, September 4, 2006, 03:39 PM

Austin lawyer Jamie Balagia is representing both Tarell Brown and Tyrell Gatewood, the Longhorn football players who were arrested early Monday with ex-Texas player Aaron Harris on drugs and weapons charges.

He told the American-Statesman Monday that both his clients were drug tested -- at their request -- to prove that the marijuana that led to their arrest was not theirs.

"All in all, it was a weird set of circumstances," Balagia said. "When the facts come out, this will be resolved pretty quickly."

According to the arrest affidavit, Brown was arrested after deputies pulled over Harris in a traffic stop on Interstate 35 North just before 3 a.m. Brown was asleep in the back seat. Deputies saw a gun in his lap, and banged on the windows of the car to wake him. Balagia said the weapon was a "recreational gun" Gatewood had purchased two weeks ago for target practice. The report said it was a loaded 9 mm handgun. Balagia said that Brown had found the gun on the floorboard of the backseat and picked it up.

Texas Coach Mack Brown released a statement Monday.

"We are aware of the situation with Tarell (Brown) and Tyrell (Gatewood) and have met with both of them," Brown said. "We're working closely with the young men and the authorities. At this time, we are holding them out of all team functions as we gather as much information as possible before making a team decision."

Tarell Brown and Gatewood were released from Travis County Jail about noon today, seven hours after they were arrested. They were released on a personal bond. Harris was released around 4 p.m., according to Balagia.

Are you kidding me? A negative drug test? To think this Tarrel Brown was asleep, and not stoned out of his mind is bullcrap. If Mack Brown wants to keep his rep straight, then he should kick Brown off the team and maintain his "squeaky clean program." If Mack doesn't kick him off the team, or even worse let him play against Ohio State, then Texas becomes Miami of the South. Maybe USC isn't so bad after all...damn.

2Bearnest is right. That is our legal system. Were are not lawyers, judges, or jurors in the case. Dont even have all the facts. People shouldn't be calling for blood just yet.

although i don't think Brown's decisions were wise, i don't think he deserves the stupidity poster - at least not on this blog.  it isn't illegal to own a handgun, and under Texas law you do have to have a permit to carry one, unless you are "traveling".  Texas courts have interpreted traveling as moving your residence, but that could change. also being in a car that has pot in it, is about as victimless as crimes get.

Owning it or carrying it...he was cuddled with it in the back of a car while sleeping. And what does he need a gun for...Ze Germans??

us Buckeye fans know this feeling all too well - we had it for our game w/ y'all last year, in fact. I won't say we'd have won - only a moron would pick against Vince Young last year, especially w/ hindsight - but that game most likely would have gone much differently had Troy Smith started, seeing as how we're a different team w/ him instead of Zwick who sucks.

Brown has to be suspended for at least a game or two; unless the police report is completely inaccurate, he was clearly illegally possessing a handgun - all "(w)hen the facts come out" blather from his shyster notwithstanding. That sucks for you, but oh well...

Good luck, 'Horns.

He will play but not start.

Does that seem like a punishment to anyone? Not that I am saying he needs to be severly punished. I honestly think that if what was said here is the truth, then this was a case of wrong place wrong time.

know how this will be handled but it should be interesting.  As for the comments about "everyone gets in the wrong car w/ the wrong friends", I can't see how you can say that.  Out of all the people on this thread, can I get a head count of people getting pulled over w/ a hand on your gun,with weed in the car at 3 am?  

Jimmer, which was more of the point I was looking at.  Yes it happens, but if you are A premier player on the top team, would you how many questionable positions would you put yourself in?  whether or not he was sleeping or holding on to the gun so it wouldn't slide around, would you get in the car with your friends who were smokin weed that could even lead to your name being in the papers?  I would hope not, but i know college kids do it all the time (granted I just graduated, got drunk all the time, but never put myself into a situation like that at all, and I was far from a standout on the football team, or classroom for that matter)

Give me a break. Love how many of you either dont have a grasp on the facts or are selectivly framing them to suit your arguments.

This is not a pious pissing contest. No one cares how good YOU were. The fact remains that people get into bad situations. If we held everyone to such high standards (as these atheletes) the nation would be without doctors, teachers, or governement. Most of whom have been less than perfect.

As far as recruits go? Do you think those kids and families live in a social vacuum? No one in their hometown gets into trouble on occasion? Ridiculous to worry about such things. No one will even remember these events by the end of the season. Besides, name me a top division 1A schooll who hasn't bumped a kid from the roster or school in the last 10 years. FSU, OSU, USC, Miami, etc. last time I checked they were still getting top-level recruits.

when i was in college, we used to drive around listening to the bone/2pac song "thug love" and would fire my 9mm out of the sunroof of my volvo at the appropriate parts in the song.

we were way out south of town.  still really dumb but really, really fun and the type of shit some people do when they're dumb and in college.

i say bench him a game, but i don't think these guys are criminals or anything.