The Villanovan Sports Blog has the official statement from Jay Wright, as well as Villanova. Wright’s statement is copied below.
“Reggie understands the seriousness of this matter and how it could impact the team. We will go forward as a basketball family and University to work together with Reggie to deal with this in the proper way.”
And here is some scoop from Dick Jerardi of the Philly Daily News that is about as good as we can hope. Jerardi relays some quotes from people in Redding’s camp that seem to say that the initial facts reported aren’t exactly the truth. Here is Redding’s attorney on the matter.
“The facts as alleged in that [police] report aren’t completely accurate. And that will come out. He was not driving the car. The car was, in fact, stopped in the parking lot. He felt some kind of commotion at his car and came out. It was campus Public Safety that was first involved and they contacted the Radnor police.”
The article goes on to say that the charge could eventually be moved down to disorderly conduct (for some reason I doubt that) but after reading the article, I do feel better about the situation. Reggie’s a good guy and a good teammate and he has the Villanova community behind him, although as we’ve seen, sometimes the school will hand out a harsher punishment than the police, so stay tuned.
