This may be a good omen for the season if we can get Lawrence Phillips hired as Strength and Extraditioning Coach.
Three current Nebraska football players and two former players with NFL ambitions were ticketed at a couple of house parties over the weekend.
Police say they ticketed Maurice Purify, 22; Carl Nicks, 22; Ben Martin, 19; and Mike V. Smith, 19, after they were called to 3124 Mickaela Lane in northwest Lincoln just before midnight Saturday about a loud party.
Nick Covey, 20, was ticketed for being a minor in possession of alcohol at a separate party Friday, Lincoln Police Capt. David Beggs said. The junior linebacker, two months and two days from his 21st birthday, was cooperative with police.
Purify’s ticket could be more damaging than it appears on the surface. The former Husker receiver is already on probation for an arrest last summer and needed to make a good impression on NFL personnel with the league’s draft being held next month.
Officer Katie Flood said when police arrived to that party, the music could be heard from the sidewalk and more than 75 people were inside. Empty beer cans littered the home.
Flood said police cited 10 party-goers who remained after officers told everyone to leave, including the four players.
Police arrested Nicks on suspicion of being an inmate of a disorderly house and failure to disperse after he wouldn’t leave. He later was released.
Smith was accused of maintaining a disorderly house, and Purify and Martin of being inmates of a disorderly house.
A sophomore offensive lineman, Smith backed up Nicks at left tackle last season and is expected to be a candidate to start this fall. Martin is a sophomore defensive lineman who played in six games last year.
Husker coach Bo Pelini said the matters with current players would be dealt with internally.
Purify is on probation for misdeeds prior to his senior season last year: an assault, disturbing the peace, interrupting arrest and DUI.
In January, prosecutors reopened the case on a motion to revoke his probation, after he was accused of driving on a suspended license in October.
Both Purify and Nicks recently went to the NFL Combine and received mostly positive reviews.
Some believe the 335-pound Nicks could be taken on the first day of the NFL Draft (in the first two rounds).
And Purify had performed well enough at the combine to put himself in position to be a late-round pick, said Scott Wright, an analyst for NFL Draft Countdown.
“What’s going to be important now is his interviews,” Wright said at the combine. “He needs to convince coaches and general managers that off-the-field problems won’t be an issue.”
Courtesy The Lincoln Journal Star
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