Written by Paul Skrbina at Chicago Tribune.com
Max Redfield has been kicked off Notre Dame’s football team and Devin Butler has been suspended indefinitely, coach Brian Kelly said in a statement released Sunday afternoon.
Redfield, a senior safety, was one of six Irish football players arrested over the weekend in two separate incidents.
Four other players — Te’von Coney, Kevin Stepherson, Dexter Williams and Ashton White — along with Redfield, were arrested Friday and booked in Fulton County, Ind., Jail on misdemeanor charges of possession of marijuana after a traffic stop. Redfield, Stepherson and Williams also were charged with possession of a handgun without a license, according to Indiana State Police.
Redfield, a senior who was expected to start at safety this season, was sent home from the Fiesta Bowl last season for violating team rules.
Redfield did not return messages left by the Tribune on Sunday.
“Obviously sad and disappointed,” Redfield’s mother, Kathy Mora told the Tribune via telephone Sunday. “But that’s about all I’ve got right now.”
In a separate incident early Saturday morning, Butler, a senior cornerback, was arrested on preliminary charges of resisting law enforcement and battery of a police officer after he allegedly hit a cop during an altercation outside a South Bend, Ind., bar.
Kelly said he met with all those arrested as well as university officials over a 24-hour period.
“That process has only served to deepen my disappointment in the poor decisions made by these young men,” Kelly said in a statement. “Their conduct fell short of what we expect from those who represent our football team and this great university.”
Kelly said Coney, Stepherson, Williams and White will be punished internally by the university and stressed that they “remain subject to the justice system and university discipline,” meaning the players could be punished further.
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