Spartans’ top ranked CB recruit must sit out a year
MSU’s secondary, and especially the cornerbacks need all the help they can get this season. The Lansing State Journal reports that help won’t be coming from freshman recruit Kendell Davis from Alliance, Ohio. Davis has been ruled an academic nonqualifier due to the NCAA rejecting an English class he took as a freshman at Alliance High.
The 5-foot-11, 181-pound cornerback from Alliance, Ohio, will have to pay his own way through school this year and then will be able to join the team as a sophomore on scholarship in 2006.
Officials from Davis’ high school, Alliance High, said the NCAA rejected an English class he took as a freshman.
“The thing about Kendell is, he’s a great kid and he’s well ahead of a lot of the kids who are accepted and playing college football right now,” said Mike Silverthorn, Alliance High’s athletic director. “It’s just amazing to me that this is how the process works. … The sad thing is that Kendell did everything he was asked to do.”
Davis considered the possibility of prep school or junior college, Alliance football coach Ron Kuceyeski said, but ultimately decided to stick with MSU. He is eligible for loans and grants, and if he performs academically as a freshman, he’ll get his scholarship back.
If Davis is on course for a degree after four years of school, he can regain the fourth year of playing eligibility.