Keeping With Tradition Texas Running Back Vondrell McGee Gets Arrested For DUI
by ccmachine on Apr 20, 2010 11:43 PM CDT
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PrintWhat do you do if you're in a three way battle for the starting running back spot for the Texas Longhorns? Well, if you're Vondrell McGee, staying out all night partying and then getting popped just after 3:00 am for DUI sounds like a good idea. Well that's what they do at Texas. At least that's what McGee decided to do Saturday night and into Sunday morning. In keeping up with another Longhorn tradition, Mack Brown dropped the hammer by suspending McGee for the first game of the season. Looks like they're going to have to try and find another way to get around that stingy Rice defense.
McGee, who will be a senior next fall, was charged with a class B misdemeanor. It carries a maximum fine of $2,000 and/or a jail term of up to 180 days. In a statement issued Tuesday, Brown said school officials will investigate the situation and McGee "will miss at least the first game next season and will be working with the scout team until he is eligible to play."
Texas opens its season Sept. 4 against Rice at Reliant Stadium in HoustonÖ. If the length of the suspension is not increased, McGee would be able to play Sept. 11 against Wyoming in Austin. - Source
With Breathalyzer readings of 0.125 and 0.126 (legal limit is .08), McGee became the fourth Longhorn to be arrested since last November and the third for DUI during that span. And we thought that all they drank in Austin was the orange kool aid.
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CCmachine...
please change that. The legal limit is 0.08, not 0.008. If you gargle mouthwash, you’ll be over the limit if that were the case. :)
Stumpy: It's called the '80s. Ford was president, Nixon was in the White House, and FDR was running this country into the ground. I was bummin' in a hole-in-the-wall town in what is now called "Utah".
Glass houses
We have certainly had our share of incidents as well. Call a cab brother…
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by Jon Woods on Apr 21, 2010 6:37 AM CDT via mobile reply actions
stupid kids making stupid decisions. we outta hire chauffeurs for all of them.
by Displaced Longhorn on Apr 21, 2010 8:04 AM CDT reply actions
Seriously
Why do the athletic departments not have a mandatory safe ride for these kids?
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Preferential treatment
would be my guess. Silly McGee. He wasn’t even in the top 3, and this only hurts his chances. I would be surprised if he rushes for more than 200 yds this season. Maybe he gets in some mop up time against the backups in blow outs, but even that time might go towards developing the younger RBs now instead. Mack is very good to his seniors, but mistakes like this before his senior year makes him less inclined to let McGee have another shot.
Ouch for McGee.
Ladies and gentlemen
You’re starting RB for the Phillip Fulmer All-Stars!
"We call him The Hammer." - Bob Stoops on Ronnell Lewis
Not even close
Just pick any one of the RB’s from Oregon instead. Don’t give credit where credit isn’t due to McGee
Stumpy: It's called the '80s. Ford was president, Nixon was in the White House, and FDR was running this country into the ground. I was bummin' in a hole-in-the-wall town in what is now called "Utah".
Yup....he's a QB
Stumpy: It's called the '80s. Ford was president, Nixon was in the White House, and FDR was running this country into the ground. I was bummin' in a hole-in-the-wall town in what is now called "Utah".
Mack Brown said McGee will be suspended for "at least" the Rice game.
In the past Mack Brown has suspended athletes for three games for DWIs.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2962285
I am starting to wonder if he’s easing up on the three game suspension rule after seeing teams like OU and Florida suspending players for only one game. (See Loadholt)
ATX
Wow! Loadholt what was that 4 years ago?? Compared to 3 since November? I ll take Austin Box pi$$ing in the streets & knuckle heads not paid parking/speeding tickets any day of the week.
Aside from that, it is freaking Austin, its not like 6th street is far from campus, any TU football player out there can get a ride without a problem…. give him props atleast he didnt have any guns or weed with him…..
Do you also take
screwdrivers to the throats of girlfriends? And it was 4 years ago…this means what? It was still a 1 game suspension.
But you are right. Sixth isn’t that far. I’ve had to make the walk from 6th to West Campus plenty of times, and they really need to stop driving drunk.
Loadholt was 4years ago….. there have been 3 DUI’s since NOVEMBER! Thsts all it meant! I ll own up to the Chaisson mess, he had some issues, but Texas never has, right?
I have walked alot drunk. Caught alot cabs drunk. Driving isnt one of the best options for anyone who has been drinking.
Ya ya
I was just referring to the fact that while we have had our fair share (if not 2 fair shares) of DUI’s in the Texas football program, at least we have stopped the whole armed robbery/assault stuff that was going on 3 years ago.
Didn’t see “Compared to 3 since November?” in your original post—my bad.
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