Montana St. drops recruit facing charges

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BOZEMAN, Mont. -- The Montana State football program has dismissed a high school recruit accused of selling marijuana-laced brownies at an all-night graduation party.

MSU football coach Rob Ash said Monday that Connor Thomas of Kalispell was removed from the program for violating the university and the athletic department codes of conduct. The statement said MSU officials would have no further comment.

Thomas faces two felony drug counts after several fellow high school graduates got sick from eating marijuana-laced brownies. Court records say two 17-year-old boys identified him as the person who made and sold the brownies for $15 on June 3.

Police say Thomas told them he made the brownies and he realized afterward that he put "way too much" marijuana in them.

Thomas signed with the Bobcats in February.

 

[LDopaPDX]

All seriousness, this seems pretty benign compared to the types of things going on at Oregon, Ohio State, and Auburn. There must've been some other questionable behaviors, because on this event alone, I probably wouldn't dismiss the kid.

 

[HannahO]

The truly sad thing is that the kid is facing two felony drug charges instead of getting ready to head off to school and football in 6 weeks or so. I imagine that the difference in treatment by both the school and the legal system is the sale and the fact that a couple people got sick ....

 

[FrontFive4Life]

Benign or not (not here to jump into a "legalize it" debate), it wasn't too long ago that MSU struggled with certain players trafficking lots of drugs into Bozeman. My guess is they have adopted a zero tolerance policy to help avoid any future embarrassment , especially if the person in question isn't even a member of the team/university yet. Bottom line, don't do things that will jeopardize your future like that.

 

[bpcats1]

The recruit had gotten into trouble earlier in the summer but nothing came of it legally. So when he signed on at MSU he was already on a pretty short leash.

It was the right call to make and I am glad that Coach Ash made a quick decision. The facts of this case were a lot more obvious to all involved so waiting for legal process to play itself out would just be a waste of time.

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

The recruit had gotten into trouble earlier in the summer but nothing came of it legally. So when he signed on at MSU he was already on a pretty short leash.

It was the right call to make and I am glad that Coach Ash made a quick decision. The facts of this case were a lot more obvious to all involved so waiting for legal process to play itself out would just be a waste of time.

What position did he play?

 

[EWURanger]

Kids make mistakes for sure but it's sad to see a kid throw away a free education for a few bucks. Hopefully he can learn from this and clean his act up. Maybe even play somewhere else, pending he doesn't have to go to the slammer for too long. :?

 

[bpcats1]

He was an OL recruit 6'5" 260 coming out of high school. Talent wise he was one of the better o-line recruits to come out of the state in awhile.