On the opening weekend of school at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, two football players at the school were arrested for an alleged home invasion.

Yesterday, football coach P.J. Fleck says when his players do bad things, it ultimately comes down to him.

The players, both freshmen who had been with the team for just six weeks, were charged with armed robbery, larceny and home invasion for an incident on campus Friday night.

Ron George of Pittsburgh, PA and Bryson White of Mason, OH are currently being held in the Kalamazoo County Jail on $100,000 bond following their arraignment Monday. They have been dismissed from the team by WMU Head Coach P. J. Fleck.

Fleck, at a news conference Monday, addressed what he referred to as 'the elephant in the room'. The news conference was originally scheduled to talk about WMU's upcoming game against Northwestern later this week.

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"It’s unfortunate. I take responsibility for it as the head football coach. This is my football team. I have to be completely better. We talk about failing as growing in our program and that goes for me too, and I told our team that, as well. When you fail you grow.” Fleck said at the news conference, according to the Detroit News.

“There is zero tolerance for anything like that within our culture. Zero,” Fleck added.

“I brought those two gentlemen into our culture and if I would have told you I knew what was going to happen, I wouldn’t have obviously done that because that’s not what our culture’s about,” he continued. “I feel like I failed because I couldn’t work in their lives to get them to not make that decision. We do everything we possibly can, every single day, to teach and promote decision making and we will continue to do that.”

WOOD TV 8 has since discovered that one of the accused, White, had a prior arrest record in his home town.

 

 

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