Graduates playing another year??

aspen
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:00:49 +0000

I may be wrong, but I think the incoming football player Bentler is a totally different situation than the recent NCAA ruling declaring two fifth-year Army football players ineligible.

Navy officials had contacted West Point with eligibility questions about starting center Pete Bier. That inquiry led to Bier and starting left guard Dan Evans being declared ineligible by the NCAA. Bier and Evans, both fifth-year seniors, missed the Black Knights’ season-opening 14-6 loss at Arkansas State last Saturday. The two are not transfers to USMA and are not graduates. They are fifth year cadets either Class of 2006 members heading towards a December graduation or were held back and will graduate with the Class of 2007.

Bentler entered USMA as a plebe and is not expecting to get credit for previous coursework.The NCCA issue with him is how many years of football eligibility he will have at USMA since he had previously played collegiate football at Iowa.