Dwight Dasher Suspended Indefinitely

Dasher will be missing Tuesday's opener against Minnesota. (Photo by Steve Gray)"]

Middle Tennessee quarterback Dwight Dasher, whose name has shown up on this blog quite a bit in the last week, has been suspended indefinitely and it's estimated that he'll miss about a third of this season's games, including the opener against Minnesota later this week. The suspension was handed down because Dasher was declared ineligable for competition by the NCAA due to his borrowing $1500 from Oliver Donnell, an 80-year-old York VA Medical Center patient.

Dasher's accepting the money made him a paid athlete for all intents and purposes according to NCAA regulations. THe laws do not apply to his playing poker, which is not covered in the NCAA rulebookm which instead focuses on sports betting on Bylaw 10.3, which states that player can not "participate in any gambling activity that involves intercollegiate athletics or professional athletics, through a bookmaker, a parlay card or any other method employed by organized
gambling."

MTSU athletic director Chris Massaro's statement to the press outlined the usual penalty for an infraction at this monetary level. "The prescribed penalty on this type violation is a 30 percent reduction in the number of games in a season (equal to three or four games), which can be mitigated either higher or lower." MTSU will be filing reinstament players for the player by this Friday or the next Monday at the latest.

It's important to note that while Dasher has been the subject of a university inquiry and MTSU police investigation, that's as far as this matter has gone in the eyes of the law. It's interesting to note that Donnell stated that Dasher stole checks from Colin Boss to pay off the loan and there's a police report that states Boss called the Murfreesboro Police's computer assisted dispatch service on July 29 to report his checks were stolen. However, Dasher's name was not mentioned in that report and Massaro didn't mention the allegedly stolen checks on Friday.

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