Devon Clarke ineligible to play in 2017

[UnknownOrange]

Do you want a competitive football team or not? We're in the same division as FSU, Clemson and Louisville yet conduct ourselves like a wannabe Ivy League school.

I get what you're saying, but CFB and CBB is big business. The term "student athlete" should be applied pretty loosely in most cases.

So if he is academically ineligible would you like to just sweep that under the rug?... For the 3rd string safety?

 

[LeMoyneCuse]

Do you want a competitive football team or not? We're in the same division as FSU, Clemson and Louisville yet conduct ourselves like a wannabe Ivy League school.

I get what you're saying, but CFB and CBB is big business. The term "student athlete" should be applied pretty loosely in most cases.

We don't know why Clarke is ineligible. Could be for a pretty boilerplate reason that would disqualify any player at any school.

And if winning requires breaking rules and creating massive exceptions for players, I don't want a part in it. Because that kind of short-sighted stuff will always bite a smaller program in the ass.

 

[longislandcuse]

So if he is academically ineligible would you like to just sweep that under the rug?... For the 3rd string safety?

It was more in response to the other poster who included the medical DQ's etc.

Obviously for this one specific instance in regards to a player who isn't even on the 2 deep, it is what it is, but a lot people want to be a perennial Top 25 school but don't realize what that truly means.

I know a lot of people here probably don't love what goes on with the Basketball Program at times but we're big time in that sport and it kinda comes with the territory.

 

[RMH44]

It was more in response to the other poster who included the medical DQ's etc.

Obviously for this one specific instance in regards to a player who isn't even on the 2 deep, it is what it is, but a lot people want to be a perennial Top 25 school but don't realize what that truly means.

I know a lot of people here probably don't love what goes on with the Basketball Program at times but we're big time in that sport and it kinda comes with the territory.

Maybe he isn't on the 2 deep because he isn't eligible. Chicken/egg?

 

[SUFaninNJ]

we don't do well with Clark(e)s

Clark's Ale House in Syracuse to close today, ahead of schedule

Don't forget the 5 star TE who committed here only to be told, "no thank you". We'll see him when we play Pitt next year.

 

[Chip]

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[PhatOrange]

We don't know why Clarke is ineligible. Could be for a pretty boilerplate reason that would disqualify any player at any school.

And if winning requires breaking rules and creating massive exceptions for players, I don't want a part in it. Because that kind of short-sighted stuff will always bite a smaller program in the ass.

Clarke was suspended from the team for 6 months; what rules are being broken and what exceptions being made?

 

[PhatOrange]

The guy stole from other students, right? Was there some extenuating circumstance? If not, he probably should've been expelled.

I have trouble reconciling the stealing as I don't like a thief BUT, if he did something worthy of being expelled I'm sure he would've been. We (or at least I) don't know how these things are handled for the rest of the student body so who knows if exceptions were made. My beef is that imo, he's served his time, was reinstated and now serving an additional punishment. This couldn't have been decided last semester?

Being suspended for a year is now Edelin status and the two crimes are nowhere near the same. (or maybe I jumped to a false conclusion and it's grades.)

 

[LeMoyneCuse]

Clarke was suspended from the team for 6 months; what rules are being broken and what exceptions being made?

Not talking about Clarke. Talking about the perception that somehow the university is wrong because players turn up ineligible.

 

[Scooch]

I have trouble reconciling the stealing as I don't like a thief BUT, if he did something worthy of being expelled I'm sure he would've been. We (or at least I) don't know how these things are handled for the rest of the student body so who knows if exceptions were made. My beef is that imo, he's served his time, was reinstated and now serving an additional punishment. This couldn't have been decided last semester?

Being suspended for a year is now Edelin status and the two crimes are nowhere near the same. (or maybe I jumped to a false conclusion and it's grades.)

If we don't know the full extent of what happened (as you said) then I don't know how we can determine that he's being unduly punished.

Personally, I don't think that this is a hill anyone should die on. The best way to not be suspended, even over-suspended, is to not steal things from your fellow students. Full stop.

 

[jgeorge322]

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Wow a lot of innuendo in this post

 

[Chip]

Wow a lot of innuendo in this post

I had to find just the right picture.