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Williams confessed to robbing a student who was punched in the head and face and kicked in the ribs and back. He said Pettway and Hayes watched him commit another robbery from a nearby vehicle about an hour later.

4 arrested Bama players no longer enrolled at UA
Posted: Feb 27, 2013 1:20 PM CST Updated: Feb 27, 2013 1:37 PM CST
By Melynda Sides - email

TUSCALOOSA, AL (WBRC) -
All four of the University of Alabama football players facing robbery-related charges are no longer enrolled in the school, according to a statement from UA.

University spokeswoman Deborah Lane issued this statement concerning UA students Tyler Hayes, Dennis Pettway, Eddie Williams and Brent Calloway:

"UA's judicial review has been completed. The four students involved in the robberies on campus are no longer enrolled in UA."

Coach Nick Saban said Wednesday that all four players are "no longer associated with the football program" and their "actions do not reflect the spirit and character we want our organization to reflect," the AP reports.


All four of the former football players were arrested by campus police earlier this month in connection to two robberies. They were suspended from the team and school indefinitely until the results of the judicial review came came in.


Hayes, Pettway and Williams were charged with two counts of second degree robbery each. Williams and Calloway were charged with fraudulent use of a debit card. Court documents show that Williams admitted to beating up two UA students, taking a book bag and debit cards. Hayes also admitted to the crimes.


Williams left Tuscaloosa nearly two weeks ago after school officials banned him, Pettway and Hayes from campus. Calloway was not originally banned from campus, but is now also unenrolled from the university.

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their "actions do not reflect the spirit and character we want our organization to reflect,"

I would be willing to bet that some SEC team will take a hard look at Williams.

I've never said that Ole Miss ( or any other school) doesn't have student athletes that get into trouble. That was clearly not my point, and those pretending that it was are engaging in a straw man debate. What I did say was that the subject crimes were different than the typical trouble that student athletes get into from time to time. Can anyone point to some other incident like the Williams assaults that have occurred on any other SEC campus?

Deltamud77 wrote:

I've never said that Ole Miss ( or any other school) doesn't have student athletes that get into trouble. That was clearly not my point, and those pretending that it was are engaging in a straw man debate. What I did say was that the subject crimes were different than the typical trouble that student athletes get into from time to time. Can anyone point to some other incident like the Williams assaults that have occurred on any other SEC campus?

I cannot think of any. Your point is well taken. The only similar event I can think of (which should have been national news) was the "knock out" game incident at Pitt. To that point, I would not be surprised in the least if this incident at Bama was initially a form of the knock out game that later turned into theft.

It will be interesting to see how Saban handles this event and his team. Pretty much all sports dynasties (which Bama clearly is at this point) come to an end as a result of either complacency or lack of discipline (or a combination of the two). Saban specializes in not being complacent and in discipline, so one would think this will not be a problem for Bama...but we shall see.