Under NCAA rules, when a school finds violations have occurred, the athlete typically is declared ineligible and the NCAA begins a reinstatement process. The NCAA will also decide if that player needs to miss any games. And the clock is running: Miami opens the season at Maryland Sept. 5.
“The school must declare the student-athlete ineligible and then can seek reinstatement,’’ NCAA spokesperson Stacey Osburn said.
All of the current Miami players implicated by Shapiro in a story published by Yahoo! Sports practiced yesterday and have been on the field throughout the investigation process.
LSU fight reports differ Two employees of the bar where LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson and three teammates are accused of injuring four people in a parking lot brawl said that one of the victims “threw the first punch’’ shortly after he had been escorted outside by staff.
In an interview with the AP, John Peak, general manager of Shady’s Bar in Baton Rouge, La., and door manager Jordan Neldare offer versions of the bar fight that differ from details in a police report released yesterday.
There have been no arrests and no charges filed in the incident, but police have said one of the alleged brawlers had three fractured vertebrae, which is serious enough to bring felony second-degree battery charges against whoever caused those injuries.
Both bar employees said Andrew Lowery, who has been identified by police as one of the victims, was asked to leave the bar around 1:30 a.m. last Friday when he appeared to be harassing a young woman. Within minutes of walking into the parking lot, Lowery was in the midst of the fight, the bar employees said.
“What we do know is that Lowery threw the first punch,’’ said Peak.
