Blount Will be Back on the Oregon team

[BCEagle74]

You could see this happening the day he lost the whole season.

Its easy to be a Prophet today. Where is the old posts? LMAO!

He should had received 2-4 games anyway.

Oregon coach Chip Kelly will address LeGarrette Blount's status on Friday morning, the school said Thursday.


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Suspended Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount wrote a letter to the student newspaper asking for forgiveness, ESPN.com's Ted Miller writes. Blog

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The suspended running back will have an opportunity to be reinstated to the program later this season, provided he continues to follow a plan set in place after the first game, a source told ESPN on Thursday.

Blount has been suspended since he punched Boise State defensive end Byron Hout after Oregon's season-opening loss to the Broncos. On Thursday, the Oregon campus newspaper published a letter of apology from Blount.

Blount has been participating in Oregon practice as a member of the scout team and has been attending classes.

Kelly had previously said reinstatement was not an option. But Blount has impressed many people he's spoken with as part of the plan. Among those people are Tony Dungy, Jon Gruden, Kermit Washington and noted sociologist and scholar Harry Edwards, a professor emeritus at Cal-Berkeley.

Blount has recently become a father. A person familiar with Kelly's plan said the resinstatement would not come immediately and likely not before Oregon's bye week on Oct. 17.

It is also believed that Oregon athletic director Mike Bellotti and school president Richard Lariviere are on board with the possibility for reinstatement, though its not known to what extent the Pac-10 has been involved.

Joe Schad is a college football reporter for ESPN.

[b0mberMan]

It wouldn't have been a season-long suspension if it didn't happen on national TV during the season opener for all of college football. 2-4 games sounds right.

[DuchesneEast]

The suspension was overly hrash for a senior and would have killed his NFL chances.
The coach was trying to be tough to show its "his" program now.

[branchinator]

Anyone who punches a white trash Boise State player should have an extra year of eligibility granted to him, not a year taken away. I'm very disgusted with how the University of Oregon handled this situation.

[angryty]

Exactly. It is not Blount's fault that the 74 lineman has a glass jaw. Blount was giving away forty pounds to the 74 and he still knocked him the fuck out. In a just world, Boise would be leveled by an asteroid that would kill every inhabitant.

[eaglefanhilbillyland]

I seem to remember that it was the guy from Boise who went looking for Blount after the game, and provoked him is this correct or am i imagining things

[15Radnor]

Suspension lifted?! This was a crime against the Basque people!

[GreenvilleEagle]

Blount is an easy 240 same as the boise guy. Didn't matter he is straight from the hood and his punch was not lucky. The boise player got what he deserved for talking crap to this guy.