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Old 11-08-2003, 11:29 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Good to see scholarship money being put to good use...

Another sign that this talent will fade away and become nothing?

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Suspended Ohio State tailback Maurice Clarett is flunking two classes, including a physical education course, according to two letters obtained by the Columbus Dispatch Friday.

Wish i had an attorney to explain my school problems

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Old 11-08-2003, 11:50 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Judge Hayes removes himself from Clarett case

Big Ten Insider: Penn State reeling
Saturday, November 8, 2003

ESPN.com news services

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Suspended Ohio State tailback Maurice Clarett is flunking two classes, including a physical education course, according to two letters obtained by the Columbus Dispatch Friday.

Clarett has been warned that his failing or withdrawing from the classes would make it harder for him to be reinstated.

A letter by athletic director Andy Geiger said an African American studies professor had forbidden Clarett from returning to her class after he missed at least five sessions and slept during others.

In another letter, a university attorney warned Clarett that he was flunking a physical education course after he failed to turn in assignments. Clarett's academic troubles come on the heels of his suspension and a misdemeanor charge of filing a false police report about a burglary from a car he had borrowed.

Geiger declined to comment to the newspaper regarding the letters, saying that federal law prohibits university personnel from revealing details about students' academic performance. Vannatta did not return phone calls by the Dispatch. Clarett missed five of the African American studies classes in September and October, Geiger wrote. Although his attendance improved, Clarett dozed off during a few other sessions, the letter said.

"The university and the professor view this behavior as disruptive, disrespectful and unacceptable. Dr. Newton does not under any circumstances want you back in her class," Geiger wrote.

In a letter eight days later, university attorney Julie D. Vannatta warned that Clarett was flunking a course in the "principles of physical conditioning." He had failed to turn in assignments, Vannatta wrote.

Vannatta encouraged Clarett to drop both classes by Friday -- the final day for withdrawing from classes without getting a flunking grade. If he decided to continue in both classes, it would be "very difficult" for him to maintain an acceptable gradepoint average, Vannatta warned in the note.

However, Geiger's letter emphasized that withdrawing from the classes would present Clarett with other problems.

By dropping seven hours of classes, Clarett would become a part-time student, Geiger warned. That would mean the three remaining games on OSU's football schedule -- Michigan State, Purdue and Michigan -- would not count toward his suspension, so he would have to miss three games next year.

Also, Geiger warned, Clarett needs to obtain at least a D in five credits this term. If he fails to do this, Clarett would be deemed as not making "satisfactory academic progress," the letter said.

Percy Squire, an attorney for Clarett, told the newspaper Friday that his client has decided against withdrawing from the African-American studies and physical education classes. Clarett also plans to enroll in winter-quarter classes, Squire told the newspaper.

Clarett was out of town and unavailable for comment to the newspaper, and his mother, Michelle Clarett of Youngstown, declined to comment.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.



One day I will be gentle enough to make a story like this surprise me. Until that day, the idea of a lazy athlete in american schools wasting their free ride isn't anything too new. Its really sad.
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Old 11-08-2003, 01:18 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Heres a case of someone clearly caught in limbo. He doesn't belong in college, and the NFL won't have him.

Yes, floonine, he is wasting the opportunity. But you can't suggest he hasn't earned his opportunity, how many college scholarship recipients make millions of dollars for their school? His jersey was a top-seller, at fifty bucks a pop.

Hopefully, he'll wake up and decide to put more effort in. If not, he will have more money than any of us will ever see in less than two years.
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Old 11-08-2003, 03:16 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Maurice Clarett reminds me of Lawrence Phillips. not quite as thuggish, but definitely traveling down the same path of "waste of talent".
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Old 11-09-2003, 11:25 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Had he just come clean and admitted his mistakes after the whole fiasco instead of pointing fingers at everyone else and trying to file a lawsuit against the school, he'd probably be playing football again right now. He won't play again for Ohio State, he won't play again in the NCAA, and he sure as hell won't be anything more than a backup in the event that anybody in the NFL is stupid enough to draft him.
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