Tre'Von Armstead Baylor WACO, TX – AUGUST 31: Tre’Von Armstead #41 of the Baylor Bears makes a touchdown pass reception against the Southern Methodist Mustangs at McLane Stadium on August 31, 2014 in Waco, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

One former Baylor football player previously connected to the disturbing rape scandal that rocked the football program to its core is once again making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Tre’Von Armstead was arrested Monday morning in Las Vegas and charged with battery domestic violence, resisting arrest and damaging a police car.

As first reported by TMZ Sports, police officers on the scene at The Cromwell Hotel in Las Vegas observed Armstead push a woman. When they moved in to arrest the former Baylor tight end, Armstead put up a fight and eventually kept the fight going inside the car by kicking out the back window of the police car. He is scheduled for a hearing on Tuesday.

Armstead was dismissed by the Baylor football program in 2015, two years after being charged for an off-campus rape incident. Armstead and Shamycheal Chatman had allegedly gang raped a woman in April 2013, although no charges were ever levied against them. Waco police had informed Baylor officials about the incident, but it took two years before the university took any action.

As far as Baylor is concerned at this point, Armstead is no longer their responsibility or concern, at least with what he does with his own life now that he has been dismissed. Still, the impact of the scandal at Baylor will continue to have a ripple effect any time something like this happens, because it is just another reminder that Baylor officials and coaches could have stepped in to address Armstead’s behavior and instead chose to not to take action in an appropriate way.

What a player does with his life is his own doing, and not that of the university or anyone associated with it, but knowing what we know now about the whole Baylor scandal, it is difficult to not ask “what if” Baylor had handled this differently. Could Armstead have turned things around to avoid getting into this sort of mess again? Who knows?

[TMZ Sports, College Football Talk]

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1 thought on “Ex-Baylor football player connected to rape scandal now charged with domestic battery and resisting arrest

  1. Baylor deserves every bit of disdain from decent people it can get. This thug should never have been allowed to remain on that FB team. The only numbers this POS should have on his back are those of a Nevada State Prison.

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