September 30, 2005
Ball State expands book loan suspensions
As the investigation into the Ball State book-gate rages on, sixteen players are likely to be suspended from this week's Boston College game. The Cardinals previously suspended 13 players earlier this month for abusing the student-athlete book loan program by either giving away or even selling loaned books to other students, who would eventually return them to the bookstore for buy-back credit.
According to Ball State's official athletic Web site, players suspended or recommended for suspension pending NCAA approval include Cortlan Booker, Larry Bostic, Eddie Burk, Tom Kellar, Erik Keys, Amara Koroma, Blair Kramer, Temidayo Macarthy, Ryan McKee, Lavell Mosley, Todd Racine, Brad Salyer, Bryan Smith, Donta Smith, Bryan Williamson and Charles Wynn.Wynn, the Cardinals' leading rusher this season with 126 yards in two games and Williamson, the top returning receiver from 2004 were suspended against Iowa. Defensive ends Booker and Macarthy and defensive tackle Kellar are also listed as starters on the preseason depth chart and were suspended for the season's first game.
"As soon as we became aware of irregularities with book loans for a few student-athletes for the 2004-05 academic year through regular business review, we chose to examine the records for all 186 student-athletes who received financial aid for books that year," athletic director Bubba Cunningham said in early September.
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In a way, Ball State has to at least get some satisfaction that their football team is so into learning, right? I mean, there's nothing to celebrate in their 0-3 (soon to be 0-4) record, so....
Comments:
posted on October 1, 2005 2:48 PM — link — abuse?Jeff Quinton said:
If they were guilty of it, it wasn't "checking out books." It was getting free books for classes they weren't in included in their tuition and giving them to others, which is a big no-no with the NCAA.
I imagine the suspensions have result in 2 of the games being the blowouts they were but not sure it has had much impact than that.
Wentzel said:
posted on February 1, 2006 9:04 AM — 205.213.111.52 — link — abuse?
Recent Recruit Jason Jankowski or Janko is not what your school thinks he is. I go to school with this kid and Janko did not have 103 tackles as a senior and he did not have one sack. There is no chance in hell that the kid can run a 4.65 40, he would be lucky to get undere 5.0. And anyone that thinks he looks like a bad ass should know that we have a cd of him crying like the little girl that he is.
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smantix said:
posted on October 1, 2005 2:22 PM — 68.52.214.217 — link — abuse?Do you think it could be possible that the suspensions have resulted in the 0-4 record? It must be noted, though, that 3 of the games had no hope of victory even w/o the suspensions (the fourth had the Cards in the lead late in the game), as a former AD felt it was more important to get big paydays than let a young team develop against winnable opponents. Luckily, the new AD doesn't see things this way, as in the next few years the schedule falls more into a one payday, two similar, and one D-1AA model. The new coach has had to try to rebuild a team from scratch, as the old coach did not recruit at a D-1 level. If they can suffer through this year, with it's unreasonable schedule and unreasonably harsh suspensions (4 games for checking out books that were recommended but not required for the course? Some were more severe... checking out books for roommates and the like, but even still, they didn't punch, stab, or murder anyone, as some 1 or 2 game suspenders have done), they may turn into a nice little club in the next two years.