Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, FL – Former USF running back Andre Hall was arrested in Florida for violation of Section 322.34(2)(A) of the state’s statutes. It’s a misdemeanor charge for driving with a revoked, suspended, or canceled driver’s license.
Hall was booked and released on Tuesday in Pinellas County.
The Big East released its football All-Academic honors on Thursday, and it’s a strange thing when a conference can celebrate roughly 10 percent of its football players garnering a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average or higher.
Seven Bulls made the list, including three former or current walk-ons. Two seniors — quarterback Anthony Severino and cornerback Ryan Gilliam — were honored, as well as junior receiver Marcus Edwards. Two sophomores — long-snapper Eric Setser and kicker/punter Delbert Alvarado — made the list, as well as redshirt freshman tackle Jacob Sims and freshman running back Mike Ford. ——-
FORT LAUDERDALE – USF nearly fumbled it all away.
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Playing without leading rusher Mike Ford, who was held out after missing classes, USF still rushed for 257 yards in the second half, finishing with 302 as a team, the Bulls’ highest total since the 2005 season.
TAMPA – Now that a new admissions committee at the University of South Florida has weighed in on some of Jim Leavitt’s prospects, its decision and the timing of its actions are likely to affect the coach’s recruiting long into the future, two analysts said.
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The committee didn’t meet with Leavitt until last Thursday, but Leellen Brigman, USF’s associate vice president for enrollment planning and management, said the committee tried unsuccessfully to schedule a meeting with Leavitt in mid-January.
TAMPA – At 9:30 this morning, Palm Beach Gardens offensive lineman Justin Green planned to sign with the University of South Florida in a ceremony at his high school.
However, Green said he was told Tuesday – less than 24 hours before today’s National Signing Day – that he could not sign with USF because he was not approved by the school’s newly formed academic committee.
“It was a surprise,” said Green, a first-team Palm Beach Post all-area selection. “I might now open it up a little bit. I might look around at some other schools.”
This is the first year of USF’s academic committee, which must grant USF’s coaches approval to sign a recruit. In the past, Green could have signed with USF on signing day and then tried to improve his academics to get eligible.
Green said USF assistant Dan McCarney called him Tuesday to tell him he couldn’t sign. “I could tell McCarney was frustrated,” Green said.
TAMPA – The University of South Florida has reined in the control its Athletic Department has long held over the scholastic lives of student-athletes.
Concerned over the weakening academic progress of its players, especially those in football and basketball, the university has recently revoked much of the discretion coaches had in recruiting athletes with poor grades and test scores.
And mindful of past scandals that embarrassed other college programs, the school, beginning last semester, barred Athletic Department employees from teaching student-athletes and blocked their access to student records.
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Eleven of 18 new football players at USF last summer and fall, or 61 percent, were admitted as an exception to the state university system’s admission standards, according to university records. About 26 percent of all new student-athletes, including football players, got an exception for last summer and fall.
However, the report does not explain a 12-minute videotape allegedly produced by Mohamed that features an Arabic-speaking man explaining how to convert remote-controlled vehicles into a detonator. The FBI says Mohamed made the video to help people “defend themselves against the infidels invading their country, including U.S. military forces.”
During their arrests, Mohamed told authorities the items in their trunk were sugar rockets and they were going to set them off in a field.