Campus police have charged three University of Kentucky football players with possession of marijuana.
Running
back Raymond Sanders, cornerback Marcus Caffey and wide receiver Bookie
Cobbins were all cited Thursday night, according to a uniform citation
filed by UK Police. They are due in Fayette District Court Oct. 9.
The
citation states that while on patrol near the 700 block of Woodland
Avenue around 9:55 p.m. on Thursday, an officer noticed a "strong scent
of marijuana was coming from the basement area" of a building at
Cooperstown Apartments.
Each player admitted to the officer that
he had smoked marijuana, and the drug was found inside the address
listed on the citations.
Sanders and Cobbins were suspended for
Saturday night's loss to Western Kentucky. Caffey is sitting out this
season after failing to qualify academically.
At his weekly Monday
news conference, Coach Joker Phillips said that Sanders and Cobbins
will be eligible to play at Florida on Saturday.
"Kids don't
always do all the things right," Phillips said. "We hold our kids
accountable. We disciplined right away. We don't wait. We try to get as
many of the facts as we possibly can. We got them on Friday and we
disciplined right away."
Sanders is third on the UK depth chart at
running back behind Jonathan George and CoShik Williams. George likely
will be the starter in Gainesville.
"The way he played, he
deserves to be the starter," Phillips said of George's three-touchdown
performance against WKU. "CoShik is banged up, won't practice until
Thursday. So George deserves to be the starter."
Sanders, a
5-foot-8, 190-pound junior from Stone Mountain, Ga., struggled with
injury much of last season. But he had seemingly bounced back this
season, including a career game against Kent State Sept. 8 with 13
carries for 115 yards and a touchdown.
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