Ole Miss junior quarterback Randall Mackey has been suspended for the team’s season opener against Brigham Young University following his arrest outside of an Oxford bar early Tuesday morning.
Mackey was charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, after a fight outside The Lyric, a music venue and bar, that allegedly included the quarterback hitting a police officer in the lip.
Another Ole Miss football player, Jamal Mosley, was arrested for public drunkenness four days prior to Mackey’s arrest.
Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt said Mackey will not play in the team’s first game or necessarily receive most of the first-team snaps in practice when he returns to the field.
The Bastrop native seemed to be at the forefront of a tight three-way battle for the starting quarterback spot with West Virginia transfer Barry Brunetti and JUCO transfer Zack Stoudt before the incident.
Mackey redshirted last season after transferring to Oxford following an Honorable Mention All-American season at East Mississippi Community College in 2009, when he threw for 3,122 yards and 32 touchdowns.
Brunetti spent one year in Morgantown before transferring to Ole Miss to be closer to his ailing mother in Memphis, and now will be the starter when the Rebels host the Cougars on September 3, according to Nutt.
“Barry has been the most consistent and accountable with things, which is why he was named the starter,” Nutt said.
Nutt also said Stoudt will see playing time against BYU.
 
 
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