VIDEO: The audio of the Florida players' arrest

On Monday, we wrote about a crazy story coming out of Florida where Cody Larsen and Alex Murphy, both forwards on the Florida basketball team, were arrested along with team manager Joshua Adel after they were kicked out of a bar and then tried to break into a car in the parking lot. This is what we said in our post on Monday:

When they were spotted by the people still working in the bar, the three took off. Larson and Murphy got away, but Adel was caught a block later. Adel was arrested and managed to convince Murphy to come back and turn himself in. He, too, was arrested. Those two were sitting in the back on the police cruiser when Larson called them "seven or eight times". The three talked, on speaker phone, about how they planned to talk their way out of the trouble with two officers sitting in the front seat.

Well, it turns out that the cops had a tape recorder in the cruiser with them. And the audio has been obtained by First Coast News in Florida. The video, via Sports by Brooks:




The audio is, frankly, mind-blowing. Any doubt about what happened is blown out of the water. I don't think Billy Donovan is going to be too happy about his players getting caught breaking into a car, especially when one of those players (Larson) was already on probation for drug-related issues he had back in his home-state of South Dakota.

Adel actually comes off looking good. He doesn't appear to have been involved in the incident, as he said he was standing off to the side on his cell phone, and he spent the duration of the time in the back of the car trying to convince Murphy that his ill-conceived plans of trying to cover up what happened were, well, ill-conceived.