Reports: Half of FCS team suspended
Charleston Southern was already guaranteed to be in for a tough game against FSU. Social media chatter by various players suggests that it might now be dangerously difficult.
A Facebook post by Charleston Southern RB Ben Robinson says that more than 30 players are being suspended by the NCAA due to using funds for textbooks at the school bookstore for other items, something they were instructed to do by bookstore employees:
From Charleston Southern running back Ben Robinson's Facebook page. pic.twitter.com/mXpov7b4ec
— Ariya Massoudi (@AriyaMassoudi) September 9, 2016
With FCS scholarships capped at 63, that means that Charleston Southern will likely be without half its team. As some have pointed out, that makes playing the game against FSU potentially dangerous for the eligible players.
Charleston Southern may suspend 30+ players for FSU game. If true, just forfeit. That's really dangerous to play. https://t.co/KhhgbR6GUD
— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonCBS) September 9, 2016
One Charleston Southern offensive lineman has said that he is suspended “along with the rest of my offensive line”:
Wow. Per Charleston Southern Offensive Lineman Frank Cirone, the entire offensive line is suspended vs. FSU. pic.twitter.com/g6uCqfFRR0
— Ariya Massoudi (@AriyaMassoudi) September 9, 2016
It’s not surprising that the NCAA is being ripped for the suspensions:
Awful…. RT @bstCASEscenario: This thing at Charleston southern is absurd.
— △⃒⃘ (@ItsPaoloni) September 9, 2016
Seriously, why don't we just let the Charleston Southern kids play in this game and sit out the Monmouth game or whatever? NCAA can do this.
— Rick Freeman (@RWFreeman) September 9, 2016
Wait, so Charleston Southern is going into the FSU game with even less players now? Yikes…..ncaa at its finest it seems
— USFMatt (@usfmatt) September 9, 2016
The NCAA never disappoints when it comes to absurdity and unfairness: https://t.co/aUa68tsTsu https://t.co/tCu1g1B7aD
— Josh Moyer (@ESPNJoshMoyer) September 9, 2016
The NCAA is the worst, part 1000: Charleston Southern players suspended for buying binders & pencils with book money https://t.co/jjZoEz58OR
— David Seawright (@DavidSeawright) September 9, 2016
Wow… Im from SC and know some of the players that play at CSU… And let me tell you they have picked up some under the radar BEASTS out of high school! Without this 30 man suspension. That would have been a decent game.. Maybe FSU by 17.
Insane, as usual. If they MUST suspend players for buying pencils(!), then make them suspend, say 3 of them per game until the end of the season.
Can’t they just repay the $$$ and not get suspended? It seems silly, but at the same time every athletic dept should know about this rule and burn it into the player’s minds as soon as they step on campus.
I wonder how many will go to the game period. It will be a pitiful game. Who even wants to root against the Ch. Sou. I don’t see how any highly, ranked 1-A school can schedule a lower division school and still start their A team players~! Now of they get far behind in the score then yeah, bring’em in.
My god let the kids play. This textbooks funds crap is old already…
Meanwhile Jeffrey Simmons plays vs. SC Saturday after serving his one game suspension from repeatedly hitting a woman in the face on video from this past summer. Sounds like the NCAA has their priorities straight allowing Miss St to handle that one.
That’s a good point. Tough to see how these two situations equate to the same number of games missed.
…..meanwhile in Tuscaloosa, Saban plays drug runners and gun runners whose base of operations are in other state’s public parks.
That’s a pretty hefty accusation. Got a source on that?
I think the aroma from Tennessee’s “Vanilla” offense has gotten to his head
Well that’s a bug accusation. What we know for a fact though is UT paid off a title IX lawsuit….bill Cosby u
The thugs who put the crimson in Crimson Tide have dominated the Tuscaloosa turf since arriving on campus.
Their satellites are expanding past the plains, into the bogs and bayous.
Bill Cosby U……..Touching girls with their pudding pop illegally since the arrival of BJ…
As you watch the drug runners and gun runners enter Legion Field, hold your children tightly.
Rapers are far worse than runners. Runners just sell/deliver a product. What the consumer does it with it is their choice.
Legion field? Bama hasn’t played there in 13 years. Possibly that was a jab at Auburn for playing there last year as there bowl game? You’re either really clever or really dumb.
*their bowl game
Oh wow…You have zero knowledge about CFB it seems. Legion field? You also thought another football game will be played at bristol next week. You’re dumb as he$$…..Bill Cosby u, where there is more rapes than victories in a seasonm
As the innocents get cut down in Chicago and you look for reasons, look no further than TV on Saturday for those who wear…….CRIMSON.
Just let the guys play. It sounds like the school administration should be at fault for training employees who work for the school improperly. They were told by the library staff it was OK.
STUPID rule what does that matter. If the QB or RB gets hurt because OL can’t play ncaa should be suspended for being a dumb a$$.