Report: Beverley violated NCAA rules
Patrick Beverley left the Razorbacks basketball team on Aug. 8, and reports had attributed his departure to academic issues. Well, Beverley, who plans to go overseas and seek a professional playing career, says it wasn't an academic issue, according to FOXSports.com's Jeff Goodman.
Here's more from Beverley from Goodman's blog:
"It had nothing to do with academics,” Beverley said. “I violated NCAA rules and what happened went over the coaches’ heads. A lot of people thought it was because of grades, but I go to class every day.”
"I’m going overseas for a year and hopefully I’ll be able to come back and get picked in the draft,” Beverley said. "This was hard because I was working out with the team every day and getting ready for the season.”
Violations or not, Beverley's departure is bad news for the Hogs, who now must replace seven lettermen. Beverley's name remains on the Razorbacks' 2008-09 roster on the athletic department's Web site, however. There is the possibility Beverley could redshirt a year and return in the 2009-10 season, but that doesn't seem likely.
Here's an explanation of why Beverley remains on the roster from an Aug. 10 article in the Democrat-Gazette:
It's not an oversight that Beverley's name remains on the roster, said Kevin Trainor, Arkansas associate athletic director for media relations and communications. But Trainor offered no other comments regarding Beverley's status with the team.
Off-the-court drama involving Beverley is nothing new. In April, reports surfaced that Beverley wanted to transfer to the University of South Florida, where his former UA coach Stan Heath now coaches. Beverley was talked out of transferring by his mother and decided to stay at the University of Arkansas.
I spoke with Beverley last April, when he wouldn’t comment on status messages he put on his Facebook profile that seemed to hint toward an impending transfer.
Violated NCAA rules, eh? This guy has worn out the welcome mat. Goodbye, good luck, good riddance.
Wow, I hope someday you'll learn patience with other (especially young) people dwp . I know Patrick was working hard to be a Razorback, and apparently a pro too. Hard to blame a young man for trying to prepare. Albeit outside the parameters of the game. Hey, btw ... you're not coaching kids are ya dw ?? Good luck PB, we'll see you in the big show someday.
dwp007, since you don't have a Hog-type monicker, I've often wondered who you are and who you're really for?
Your latest post is another in a series of posts I've seen that seem incredibly insensitive and almost anti-Razorback.
Who are you?
Guys,
I'm not here to defend dwp. But, can you honestly say that Beverley's head was really in the game? Did he really establish himself as the field general last year when not ONE senior would?
And, when you get right down to it, what kid with similar talent would want to initially transfer to reunite with what turned out to be the most lackluster coach to head the B-ball hogs since the pre-Eddie Sutton era?
Now he's going overseas. Woo. He really stands to gain something there. I cannot imagine how disappointed his mother must be.
He was working hard to be a Razorback, you say? Working so hard that, in fact, he had someone else take an exam for him. Boy, he sure was working hard and using his head. Now he'll be stuck overseas for the next 10 years clinging onto the hope of playing in the NBA. Best of luck to him, he'll need it....
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