August 31, 2006
QB Merry-go-round continues
Two more highly touted QBs are seeking greener pastures after deciding the transfer this past week.
ASU junior QB Sam Keller, who was uncermoniously dumped as the team's starting QB before a ball was thrown, will transfer to Nebraska and sit out the 2006 season, ready to compete for the starting job as a senior in 2007. Ironically, Nebraska also was victim to a transfer this past month, when highly touted recruit Harrison Beck went back east to become a member of the NC State squad.
Meanwhile the ousted Oklahoma Starting QB Rhett Bomar, has made the decision to return home to Texas and will enroll at Sam Houston State. Due to the school being a Division I-AA school, Bomar will not need to sit out a year. However, he still must be re-instated by the NCAA to be eligible to play, and given the charges levied against him while he was a student at Oklahoma, it is not a given that he will be immediately able to play.
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Chip Venie said:
posted on September 5, 2006 9:46 PM — 68.105.85.228 — link — abuse?
Outrage of the week! Schwarzenegger bars NCAA athletes from competition based on minor crimes.
(September 4, 2006) Today, California Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law a statute forbidding NCAA student athletes in California Universities and community colleges from competing if they are convicted of certain crimes. These student athletes will presumably lose their scholarships for being convicted of some relatively minor offenses.New California Education Code, section (§) 67362, (AB 2165) prohibits and bars any student athlete from competing in any event in California, or for any collegiate team (except intramurals), if that student/athlete is convicted of certain crimes, including:
(a) breaking into a car or shop-lifting (California Penal Code § 459);
(b) getting into a fight at a bar or fraternity party (California Penal Code § 245); or
(c) “beer runs” or grabbing and taking some alcohol from a convenience store (California Penal Code § 211).In addition, NCAA student/athletes can be barred for more serious offenses like murder, rape, and sexual assault. The law also imposes a new “reporting” requirement upon NCAA student athletes in California: from now on they will have to declare under penalty of perjury that they are essentially “crime-free.” If the student athlete does not report accurately, he or she risks further discipline including loss of scholarship.
This new law has tremendous implications for the more than 25,000 NCAA student athletes in California. To being with, to just take away the eligibility and scholarships of NCAA athletes upon conviction of seemingly small crimes may violate the due process clause under the federal and state constitutions. In addition, it may also violate the right an education under the California Constitution.
Chip Venie, Esq, and the Freedom Law Center are attorneys who concentrate a large portion of their practice on NCAA law and the criminal defense application of NCAA laws and policies. Mr. Venie is admitted to practice law in California, Washington D.C., and Michigan. Please call him at the San Diego office at (619) 235-8300, or email him at chipesq@hotmail.com if you have any questions, or are facing the impact of this new law AB 2165. You can check his blog at www.crimelaw.blogspot.com
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pat j said:
posted on August 31, 2006 8:18 PM — 68.97.27.33 — link — abuse?i think he needs some reprucussions he could and still could cost his team mates sanction.... i think the boy and i mean boy needs to sit out a year and think about it.... ncaa should do something to him its about character which he has none.... and he wasnt that good any wat hell he had 10 interceptions its what he could have been...