Two UL Lafayette football players arrested

LAFAYETTE — The University of Louisiana at Lafayette removed two players from the school’s football team Monday following their arrest over the weekend on allegations of inappropriate contact with a female student.

Darrell Green, 20, and Eric Ferguson, 22, were booked Sunday on one count each of sexual battery.

ULL football coach Mark Hudspeth announced Monday that Green and Ferguson have both been removed from the football team.

Hudspeth said in a news release that the “decisions that Darrell and Eric have made unfortunately make it necessary for me to remove them from the team.”

“I expect the young men who represent the university as members of the Ragin’ Cajuns football team to always conduct themselves in an appropriate manner,” Hudspeth said. “If they cannot follow the core values that we expect them to live by, then they can no longer be part of this program.”

ULL Police said a female student accused the men of touching her inappropriately while she was in a vehicle with them on Saturday night.

The woman had been drinking and socializing with several friends at her residence hall earlier in the evening, according to police.

She told police that the inappropriate contact occurred after she, Green, Ferguson and others left the residence hall to go to a store, according to police.

Green, a sophomore defensive lineman from Austin, Texas, played in two games as a reserve this season, according to information from ULL.

Ferguson is a senior defensive back from Arlington, Texas, and has played in five games this season, mostly on special teams, according to ULL.

Both men have been released on $40,000 bond, according to jail records.

Comments

1) Comment by TommyRucker - 30/10/2012

The university bears some responsibility and must be held accountable for this mess if it allowed alcohol consumption in this campus residence as the university has a clear cut duty to prevent this sort of thing from happening-so why is not the university's role in all this even questioned since this all started at a on campus gathering, an area where responsible adults are supposed to be guiding these young people and doing everything it can to keep them out of trouble.

2) Comment by TommyRucker - 30/10/2012

Why where these students drinking in a university residence and should not the university bear some of the responsibility for the behavior of all 3 of these students who were apparently under the influence of alcohol when all this took place. If something like this would have happened at a frat house, you can bet the frat would be held responsible so why is not the university held responsible. There must be some ADULTS somewhere running the place. If the university is going to allow consumption of alcohol on campus in these residence halls then they are going to be held accountable for behaviors that come about following the consumption of alcohol and this sort of thing has to have been heavily influenced by alcohol consumption.

3) Comment by TommyRucker - 30/10/2012

Keep giving your money to these so called 'programs' who continue to produce poor products at a tremendous cost. These sort of things are not particular to any one school as they are common across the board. ALL the schools are exploiting the players and the fans and we are so desperate for 'entertainment' and a 'good time' that we will fork out thousands of dollars a year to 'have something to do' or 'feel like we are really the clog that makes the wheel turn'. We are living in a fantasy world, like most addicts and will do anything for a little 'excitement' as we are not satisfied nor grateful for the real basics and ordinary things of life.

4) Comment by TommyRucker - 30/10/2012

This is the product of multi billion dollar INDUSTRY gone astray. The real goal of these 'programs' is to enrich the coaches and entertain the fans. They have very very little if anything to do with building character and producing citizens who will contribute anything positive to society. The college and professional industry in this country is a bigger disgrace than wall street, corrupt unions, etc. as it is using billions of dollars in the name of a 'student athletic program' to satisfy the addiction of millions of entertainment addicts. These athletic programs are a disgrace and one big contradiction as they are ALL about MONEY and we are pouring money into these programs when people in real need at lacking.

5) Comment by joey.esposito - 29/10/2012

Presuming these two were on scholarship, this is our tax dollars at work.

6) Comment by tradewinns - 29/10/2012

i know this isn't much to gloat over, but at least it wasn't drugs!