Montel Harris

Running back Montel Harris has been thrown off the Boston College football team, the school announced Tuesday. "Montel Harris has been permanently dismissed from our football team due to a repeated violation of team rules," coach Frank Spaziani said. "We are grateful for his contributions the past four seasons and will support him in completing his degree requirements and in his future pursuits. " Harris, a senior who is BC's career-leading rusher with 3,735 yards, has been plagued by knee injuries the past two seasons.

Running back Montel Harris has been thrown off the Boston College football team, the school announced Tuesday. "Montel Harris has been permanently dismissed from our football team due to a repeated violation of team rules," coach Frank Spaziani said. "We are grateful for his contributions the past four seasons and will support him in completing his degree requirements and in his future pursuits. " Harris, a senior who is BC's career-leading rusher with 3,735 yards, has been plagued by knee injuries the past two seasons.

Boston College running back Montel Harris, the Atlantic Coast Conference preseason player of the year, will miss the next three to four weeks of practice with a knee injury. That would keep him out of BC's opener against Northwestern on Sept. 3 and perhaps Game 2 the following week against Central Florida. Harris needs 126 yards to become the Eagles' all-time leading rusher. With 1,002 yards, he would set the conference record for rushing, as well. He missed last year's Fight Hunger Bowl with the knee injury and had a relapse during practice this week.

Boston College career rushing leader Montel Harris can play for the Eagles next season after receiving a medical hardship waiver. Harris missed the first three games of last season then suffered a season-ending knee injury in his second game back against Wake Forest. In the fourth quarter of that game, Harris broke Derrick Knight's school record of 3,725 yards with a 26-yard run. Harris finished the year with 3,735 yards.

Boston College career rushing leader Montel Harris can play for the Eagles next season after receiving a medical hardship waiver. Harris missed the first three games of last season then suffered a season-ending knee injury in his second game back against Wake Forest. In the fourth quarter of that game, Harris broke Derrick Knight's school record of 3,725 yards with a 26-yard run. Harris finished the year with 3,735 yards.

PINEHURST, N.C.--Boston College seldom gets any love in preseason from the media. Even though the Eagles have finished first or second in the ACC Atlantic Division in five of the six years they have been in the league, the Eagles are always picked among the also rans in pre-season. This year is no-exception. The Eagles are picked to finish fourth in the Atlantic Division behind Florida State, Clemson and North Carolina State, even though running back Montel Harris was picked as the pre-season player of the year and LB Luke Kuechly was the third choice.

The good news for Boston College following Saturday's 30-14 loss to No. 16 Virginia Tech is that it should get easier. No real monsters remain for the Eagles, starting with Saturday's game at Maryland, which is, like BC, an inexperienced and injury-riddled team in the middle of a period of bad karma. Coach Randy Edsall's Terrapins (2-5) are coming off a 41-16 loss to Florida State, and have not beaten a Bowl Subdivision team since Miami in their opener. And while the Eagles' final result against Virginia Tech was familiar, there were more signs that BC is getting close to...

Boston College plans to seek medical hardship waivers for career rushing leader Montel Harris and defensive tackle Kaleb Ramsey that would allow them to play next season. Harris has been limited by a knee injury to just two games for the Eagles (1-5), running 31 times for 135 yards. He reinjured his left knee on against Wake Forest on Oct. 1, a game in which he set the record with 3,735 yards, 10 more than the mark set in 2003 by Derrick Knight. Ramsey, bothered by a foot injury, has played in one game with two assisted tackles.

More bad news for the embattled Boston College football team. BC coach Frank Spaziani annoounced before practice this afternoon that running back Montel Harris had an MRI on his left knee and had been "shut down" for this week's game against Clemson "Montel had an MRI and he had a little swelling so we are shutting him down," said Spaziani. "They just did the MRI. I haven't had time to discuss with Montel, but he isn't playing this week and next week we have off. " Harris has had two surgical procedures on his left knee and reinjured it in Saturday's 27-19 loss to Wake Forest on a run in which he...

Boston College hit its first speed bump of training camp this afternoon when BC coach Frank Spaziani annouonced that running back Montel Harris had undergone an arthroscopic procedure on his surgically repaired left knee and would be sidelined between 3 and four weeks. Harris, who missed the end of the regular season last year and the Eagles' bowl game against Nevada, orginally injured the knee against Virginia last Nov. 20th and had it surgically repaired. His come back has been slow, if not steady.

Boston College has seen its share of mobile quarterbacks in the last month. To prepare for Florida State's EJ Manuel, though, the Eagles would have to be watching the NFL. "He's a big guy and he can throw and run," BC coach Frank Spaziani said this week as he prepared for Thursday night's game against the Seminoles. "He's kind of like Cam Newton in a lot of ways. They don't ask him to do as much running. But certainly if they did, he could do it. … He's got it all. I don't see any flaws in him, to be honest with you. " Florida State (5-3, 3-2 Atlantic Coast Conference)

The good news for Boston College following Saturday's 30-14 loss to No. 16 Virginia Tech is that it should get easier. No real monsters remain for the Eagles, starting with Saturday's game at Maryland, which is, like BC, an inexperienced and injury-riddled team in the middle of a period of bad karma. Coach Randy Edsall's Terrapins (2-5) are coming off a 41-16 loss to Florida State, and have not beaten a Bowl Subdivision team since Miami in their opener. And while the Eagles' final result against Virginia Tech was familiar, there were more signs that BC is getting close to...

The record - 1-5 - suggests it is a bad team, or a team having a bad season. Boston College has spent its bye week regrouping, refocusing on the task at hand, which is finding a way to win a football game. It will get harder before it gets easier because the Eagles will have to travel to Virginia Tech next week when they resume their season. "Well, we've done a lot of self-evaluation here as the season has been going on and certainly this off week, and we have a lot of guys making progress, we really do," said coach Frank Spaziani.

Boston College plans to seek medical hardship waivers for career rushing leader Montel Harris and defensive tackle Kaleb Ramsey that would allow them to play next season. Harris has been limited by a knee injury to just two games for the Eagles (1-5), running 31 times for 135 yards. He reinjured his left knee on against Wake Forest on Oct. 1, a game in which he set the record with 3,735 yards, 10 more than the mark set in 2003 by Derrick Knight. Ramsey, bothered by a foot injury, has played in one game with two assisted tackles.

Off to its worst start in 20 years, Boston College couldn't have asked for a better time for a break. Eagles coach Frank Spaziani said his team needed to get away from football for a bit after falling to No. 8 Clemson 36-14 on Saturday — and falling to 1-5 for the first time since 1991. "I think a break in the middle of the season is always ideal," Spaziani said. "It certainly is for this team. We could a break right now physically. " The Eagles (0-3 Atlantic Coast Conference)

CLEMSON, S.C. - Time for a break for Boston College. Certainly, coach Frank Spaziani's team needs some sort of timeout after losing to Clemson, 36-14, yesterday at Memorial Stadium. Some BC loyalists could point out that the Eagles had a fair amount of chances to upset the eighth-ranked team in the country. One could point to the touchdown called back because of a personal foul, a score that would have given the Eagles an emotional boost after a first quarter in which Clemson jumped to a 17-0 lead.

Boston College will be without Montel Harris , the ACC’s leading rusher, for its regular-season finale Saturday at Syracuse. Harris had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee yesterday at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center after tearing his lateral meniscus in last weekend’s win over Virginia. The school gave no word on whether Harris would be available for postseason play. The Eagles are bowl-eligible at 6-5. Harris, a junior, ranks 11th in the nation with an average of 113 yards per game.

CLEMSON, S.C. - Boston College was without its best running back, Montel Harris , for yesterday's conference clash against Clemson. Harris already has had two surgical procedures on his left knee this year. The Eagles, however, came out of the 36-14 loss with the glimmer of hope about the depth of their running game. If there was a bright spot in the Eagles' fifth loss in six games this season it was the performance of Rolandan Finch and Tahj Kimble , who were the main backs with Harris and his backup, Andre Williams (ankle)