From during Real World Seattle: Bad Blood, and after their
fight on Episode 9 that kicked one of the subjects out
BY DC CUEVA
This was supposed to be the start of a journey that would take him to the biggest stage in football and Sundays in the autumn. However before he could ever suit up for the Sycamores, he redshirted that fall and then transferred back close to home to Eastern Illinois University in Charleston in the central part of the state. He did have the benefit of having a full-ride scholarship, an all-expense paid scholarship covering tuition, room and board awarded to top freshman students based on academic excellence, leadership and character. It was almost certain that Theo would go on to a future in the NFL and follow in the footsteps of other fellow Panthers who went on to Sundays. This included Patriots backup QB Jimmy Garappolo, who was thrust into the spotlight when he started the first 4 games of this season in place of Tom Brady after the ladder's suspension in the wake of Deflate Gate.
Three police officers were waiting for him outside his dorm complex when they found of news that was broken to them about a suspicious smell that came from the EIU campus. There in this game of conflicting stories, Theo had warned Kass to not keep the pot in their room if he was caught, he would suffer the consequences. But there, Kass did not heed to those warnings and hid the marijuana in their room anyway. However, the cousin has a different take on this: he claims that the pot was Theo's, which only complicated things by the time the police came to their door.
When Theo got off work, he found that residents had called the cops over the smell of marijuana coming from his place, and they asked police to search the complex. Theo denied that he did any wrongdoing, claiming that Kass was the one who was smoking weed. The police told him to look through every container in the room, and inside a Muscle Milk protein milk bottle located on Theo's bedside was 12 grams of pot. The cops then asked Kass and he told them that it wasn't his bottle either. But in addition to finding the weed, they also found counterfeit money in Theo's wallet. In the end, Theo was led away in handcuffs by local police and spent two days in local custody. He did pass a drug test in jail and a few months later in his trial. he pleaded guilty to the pot offense and was handed two years probation, substance abuse treatment and fines totaling $3,000.
When Theo got off work, he found that residents had called the cops over the smell of marijuana coming from his place, and they asked police to search the complex. Theo denied that he did any wrongdoing, claiming that Kass was the one who was smoking weed. The police told him to look through every container in the room, and inside a Muscle Milk protein milk bottle located on Theo's bedside was 12 grams of pot. The cops then asked Kass and he told them that it wasn't his bottle either. But in addition to finding the weed, they also found counterfeit money in Theo's wallet. In the end, Theo was led away in handcuffs by local police and spent two days in local custody. He did pass a drug test in jail and a few months later in his trial. he pleaded guilty to the pot offense and was handed two years probation, substance abuse treatment and fines totaling $3,000.
But most importantly, the consequences are as severe as you might get: he was suspended from school and kicked off of his football team. Eventually, he went from a university which plays in the Missouri Valley Conference to a lower-tier college in the Ohio Valley Conference, and then to a college in Division III, outside of the glamour and attention of major colleges. Theo remembered in his casting interview, "That singlehandedly ruined everything, 'cause football was my life. A lot of the players that I was playing with are now in the league as we speak. That next year, I would have been a starter, and to know that all of that has been cut short because of some B.S., that haunts me."
Along with all of this, this bond between Theo and Kassius was left in ruins, and led to the two not being on speaking terms until the moment he found his cousin in the Seattle house. Kass says of the fallout, "Me and him were pretty much brothers. He was my right hand. Like, that was my guy, my main guy. We got caught with weed in our room. It wasn't mine. It was his. He wanted me to be expelled too. To this day, he still blames me for it, and I don't understand why. You can't even think about your best friend from forever turning on you one day and then, like, literally becoming your worst enemy. And he's your family." And Theo adds, "I don't need to talk to him. That belonged to him. And to know that I got suspended from school because of it, and he was still there, in the past years, he has tried to talk to me. I'm not trying to hear that. Your apology is not gonna allow me to rewind all the way back to that time."
And of course, there was all of those weeks of aggression and pent-up tension brewing that, just like what we saw with Nia & Averey in Portland, CeeJai & Jenna last season, and in a way Farrah and the Teen Mom OG ladies on their reunion last week, it was pretty much inevitable that it would all come to this: fists flying in their bedroom, security having to break them up and producers having something on their hands. Despite having come to a truce after he took to the mic at a Black Lives Matter protest, it was Kass' ways of getting drunk and him provoking him that finally got this matter to the breaking point and them falling off the deep end.
Theo claims Kassius ruined his football career and his life. What will go down when the two reunite Wednesday night? pic.twitter.com/RJoACLqBbK— MTV's Real World (@RealWorldMTV) October 25, 2016
Are you Team Theo or Team Kassius? A storm is brewing between these cousins tomorrow night at 10/9c. pic.twitter.com/d2YibfxbCM— MTV's Real World (@RealWorldMTV) November 1, 2016
Do you think Theo and Kass will ever get over their beef? pic.twitter.com/XTMiogarOc— MTV's Real World (@RealWorldMTV) November 25, 2016
And of course, there was all of those weeks of aggression and pent-up tension brewing that, just like what we saw with Nia & Averey in Portland, CeeJai & Jenna last season, and in a way Farrah and the Teen Mom OG ladies on their reunion last week, it was pretty much inevitable that it would all come to this: fists flying in their bedroom, security having to break them up and producers having something on their hands. Despite having come to a truce after he took to the mic at a Black Lives Matter protest, it was Kass' ways of getting drunk and him provoking him that finally got this matter to the breaking point and them falling off the deep end.
Theo had promised to keep his distance from Kassius, but them having to do an interview with the producers together that you pretty much knew that this was gonna go from a bad situation to worse. And when they got into it in their room, it became a tough one for all of us to watch. It's when Theo talked to show co-executive producer and one who might be counted as the 15th member of this cast by the manner we saw him earlier on in him revealing that twist to the group, Matt Ruecker, that Theo told him that this bickering would not be resolved, that they made the call that a lot of people have questioned since we saw it last week. Of course, that would be of Theo being removed from the house permanently in judging that he urged Kass to shove him.
Theo immediately regretted letting his emotions boil over the way it did and adding, "I just allowed (my own blood) to take another opportunity away from me. Regardless of all the b/s, I love (Kassius). And I actually mean that." Some of the housemates share the view that many of you fans have Theo should not have gotten the plane ride home and that it was his cousin who instigiated this mess. Robbie felt, "The wrong guy's going home. If you're gonna send one person home, send them both home," which was the scenario that took place at the end of last season when after the two got into two fights, CeeJai and Jenna were sent home.
Theo immediately regretted letting his emotions boil over the way it did and adding, "I just allowed (my own blood) to take another opportunity away from me. Regardless of all the b/s, I love (Kassius). And I actually mean that." Some of the housemates share the view that many of you fans have Theo should not have gotten the plane ride home and that it was his cousin who instigiated this mess. Robbie felt, "The wrong guy's going home. If you're gonna send one person home, send them both home," which was the scenario that took place at the end of last season when after the two got into two fights, CeeJai and Jenna were sent home.
For longtime Real World fans, you might remember EP Matt as the man who, along with producer of Season 20 in Hollywood - Ken Chien, gave housemate Joey Kovar the ultimatum of either leaving the house permanently or taking a temporary month-long retreat at a rehab facility when Joey went through his publicized bout with alcohol abuse which ultimately cost him his life four years after that season aired. On his Twitter @MTVMatt he explained, on behalf of the production crew behind the fourth wall, the reasoning for them evicting Theo: "Every incident (is done) case by case. Theo shouldn't have entered Kass' room and continued to engage. Fighting policy continues to evolve and we don't base it on past events. Hope that clarifies :-)"
Just as it was with those two fights from recent Real World's, this whole fracas could've easily been avoided, considering what we saw with the cousins being on the right route towards calling a truce to this bickering after what happened the previous week. Yes, the RW/Challenge franchise still has that violence policy in place after all these years and yes, it can be a bit spotty in places, especially in light of what happened in Portland. Yes, Kass had developed, as MTV.com reported, a drinking habit that eventually made him provoke Theo even more and eventually it led to their fight. But Theo was being provoked to the point that it was going to happen, and he snapped.
The premise of this season has been of bringing together people who they harbor strong animosity with and seeing if they can work out differences and begin anew. For this case, these two were given all of this season -- and for here, one chance -- to get it all right, and after telling Matt that he didn't think it would work out, Theo got the boot. If he had told production that he wanted another chance, then the tone of this post would've been different and perhaps we would've told this story a little later than right now.
In my judgement, it's actually 50/50 and some of you will go off on me in the comments below, the producers did not make the make the right decision to kick Theo out. From seeing what happened there, he should not have charged after Kass the way he did and having to engage more than he should have, though the fight was not as brutal as what we saw with the past two instances of big fights in the RW house. But from seeing all of that footage that Kass was provoking him so much and being driven by what we saw there - and also that he also put Theo in a choke-hold as well, it should have been Kass that would've gone home and not Theo... he provoked him into instigating this fight. But production based this decision around Theo and his snap judgement, and not the history and what led up to this that would've been easily preventable.
Theo & Kass have had time to think about their actions since filming this season this past summer, and now they've gotten to see this whole ordeal again, this time with more than just close friends and family watching. Of course, something as widely voyeuristic as a reality TV show and documentary-based program means that this behavior will be documented for everyone to see, and the two have also heard from everyone on social media the past week about what they think of believing that Theo should've stayed and Kass should've gone home, or the other way around.
We don't speculate as much as other sites do, but supposedly there was a spot in between Theo leaving the house and this episode airing here in December of him and Kass coming together privately to talk about this and squash this whole beef. This could've taken place in public on last week's After Show, but we didn't see both of them on set as that was taped shortly after this season began back in mid-October and Theo was on a business vacation overseas, as we always like to say around here. And from seeing their tweets this past week, they're considering doing some things together and both do follow each other socially as well too, so a truce has been called.
This was an ugly ordeal that began all the way back when these cousins went to college, were close cousins and Theo was on the verge of following his high school and college football teammates into the NFL. One day changed it all for the both, which cost Theo his football career and both this deep relationship. Ultimately, this day would come back to haunt them and they squandered this chance to mend things in the house thanks to what happened last week. It would've easily been the end of their relationship, but off-air they've been able to squash that bickering and things are alright. In a way, and though some people think it's not done its purpose at least in the episodes, this Bad Blood twist has served its purpose: we've seen this twist work things out for most of these people in the house and typically without incident. And here, this experience has brought together these two cousins from south of Chicago and has achieved what this twist forced them to get a fresh start in this once-close relationship... even if it did take for a pushing match and a controversial decision to get there.
In my judgement, it's actually 50/50 and some of you will go off on me in the comments below, the producers did not make the make the right decision to kick Theo out. From seeing what happened there, he should not have charged after Kass the way he did and having to engage more than he should have, though the fight was not as brutal as what we saw with the past two instances of big fights in the RW house. But from seeing all of that footage that Kass was provoking him so much and being driven by what we saw there - and also that he also put Theo in a choke-hold as well, it should have been Kass that would've gone home and not Theo... he provoked him into instigating this fight. But production based this decision around Theo and his snap judgement, and not the history and what led up to this that would've been easily preventable.
Theo & Kass have had time to think about their actions since filming this season this past summer, and now they've gotten to see this whole ordeal again, this time with more than just close friends and family watching. Of course, something as widely voyeuristic as a reality TV show and documentary-based program means that this behavior will be documented for everyone to see, and the two have also heard from everyone on social media the past week about what they think of believing that Theo should've stayed and Kass should've gone home, or the other way around.
We don't speculate as much as other sites do, but supposedly there was a spot in between Theo leaving the house and this episode airing here in December of him and Kass coming together privately to talk about this and squash this whole beef. This could've taken place in public on last week's After Show, but we didn't see both of them on set as that was taped shortly after this season began back in mid-October and Theo was on a business vacation overseas, as we always like to say around here. And from seeing their tweets this past week, they're considering doing some things together and both do follow each other socially as well too, so a truce has been called.
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