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Checking into the Ivy Leagues for a moment. Former Husker quarterback Patrick Witt is apparently no longer Yale's starting quarterback.
The quarterback from Wylie, Texas, learned that last week and then found out he was suspended from the Dartmouth game by his head coach, Tom Williams, for a "violation of team rules."
The violation, Witt told the Yale Daily News, was that he accidently slept through the team’s weekly Friday night meeting after studying for a midterm.
“I was doing some reading and I fell asleep on the couch, so I missed the meeting; and if that’s a violation of team rules then that’s pretty absurd,” Witt told the school newspaper. “I understand that we are all required to be at meetings, but it was a simple accident and it’s unfortunate that it happened, but don’t try to make it out to be that I was using illegal substances or something ridiculous like that. It was something that all Yale students can understand."
Witt began the season as Yale's starting quarterback, going 43-of-81 for two touchdowns and three interceptions. He was pulled late in the fourth game in favor of Brock Hart, who led the team on some scoring drives and was then named the starter in the days that followed.
No Ivy League education here, but my guess is calling out the head coach's decision as "pretty absurd" won't help Witt's cause.
http://my.journalstar.com/post/Husker_Extr...le_at_yale.html
The quarterback from Wylie, Texas, learned that last week and then found out he was suspended from the Dartmouth game by his head coach, Tom Williams, for a "violation of team rules."
The violation, Witt told the Yale Daily News, was that he accidently slept through the team’s weekly Friday night meeting after studying for a midterm.
“I was doing some reading and I fell asleep on the couch, so I missed the meeting; and if that’s a violation of team rules then that’s pretty absurd,” Witt told the school newspaper. “I understand that we are all required to be at meetings, but it was a simple accident and it’s unfortunate that it happened, but don’t try to make it out to be that I was using illegal substances or something ridiculous like that. It was something that all Yale students can understand."
Witt began the season as Yale's starting quarterback, going 43-of-81 for two touchdowns and three interceptions. He was pulled late in the fourth game in favor of Brock Hart, who led the team on some scoring drives and was then named the starter in the days that followed.
No Ivy League education here, but my guess is calling out the head coach's decision as "pretty absurd" won't help Witt's cause.
http://my.journalstar.com/post/Husker_Extr...le_at_yale.html