Masoli Cleared to Play at Ol Miss this Season

[Colonel Angus]

LOL WUT?

Jeremiah Masoli won his appeal to the NCAA today, clearing the way for the quarterback who transferred after being kicked off Oregon's team, to play as early as Saturday for Ole Miss.

Here's the release from the NCAA:

University of Mississippi football student-athlete Jeremiah Masoli may compete immediately, according to a decision today by the NCAA Division I Subcommittee for Legislative Relief. The subcommittee’s decision overturns the staff decision to grant the graduate student transfer waiver with the condition that Masoli could not compete until the 2011-12 academic year.
According to NCAA rules, created by member schools, football graduate student-athletes must receive a waiver in order to compete if they enroll at a university other than where they received their undergraduate degree.
Every NCAA waiver process includes a staff decision first and an opportunity for the school to appeal that decision to an independent committee. This group is comprised of representatives of NCAA member schools and conferences. Throughout both stages of the waiver process, the case is reviewed and evaluated based on the specific facts of that particular case, as disclosed during the review process. In this case, the staff, subcommittee and school all acknowledged the complexity of the waiver request.
The NCAA staff received the waiver request from Ole Miss on Aug. 13 and received the final piece of information from the school on the evening of Aug. 30. After considering that final piece of information, the NCAA staff issued its decision the morning of Aug. 31. The appeal decision was given three days later.
Masoli led Oregon to the Rose Bowl last season before being dismissed from the program this summer after two off-season run-ins with police.

He pleaded guilty in a January theft at a fraternity house and was suspended for the entire 2010 season by Oregon coach Chip Kelly. Then in June, he was cited for misdemeanor marijuana possession - which he later pleaded guilty to - and was subsequently dismissed and kicked off the squad.

The Lane County district attorney has not returned a message from The Oregonian this week inquiring whether the traffic stop constitutes a violation of his burglary probation.
Stay with OregonLive.com for more on this developing story.

 

[Champ]

wtf

 

[ram29jackson]

LOL he is probably wondering what the hell he is doing in the deep south

 

[Sportsbuck]

I'm just glad to see it for no reason other than it made the NCAA have to be consistent in its ruling.