The school did not have an update on his status after the game.
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This seems like it might have been an honest mistake, and the players may not be entirely to blame here. “I certainly didn’t realize this was falling through the cracks that way at all or we wouldn’t have done it”. Deondre Francois completed 33 of 52 passes for 419 yards and two touchdowns.
‘We have sat 16 players the first two weeks and now me and many other seniors and juniors who have helped lead this program and school to unprecedented highs on and off the field will be suspended against Florida State this Saturday’.
Charleston Southern is an FCS program and only has 63 scholarships to give to football players.
“We focused all week in practice on starting fast”. “It’s not going to affect us on Saturday”. They then trounced Kentucky State, 55-7, in Week 2 in advance of Saturday’s game against the Seminoles. Chanin Hamilton carried the ball nine times for 53 yards.
He ran for 83 yards on just 11 carries, 37 of which came on a winding, weaving touchdown run through the heart of the Charleston Southern defense midway through the third quarter.
Francois hit Rudolph seven times for 105 yards in the first half, including another touchdown later in the first quarter on a 21-yard reception that capped a 53-second drive. He is also the first freshman QB from an Atlantic Coast Conference school to throw for over 400 yards in his first game.
In a Facebook post, running back Ben Robinson said players used leftover book money to buy pencils, binders and electronics in the bookstore after workers advised them to.
Mitchell relieved London Johnson early in the game and got the Bucs on the scoreboard with 2:50 left in the second quarter. Florida State is paying Charleston Southern $475,000 for the game.
“Obviously it’s not the situation you want to go in with a No. 3 or 4 team in the country”, Jamey Chadwell, the football team’s head coach, told a local news station Friday. This certainly isn’t a good thing for the team as they look to make an impact in the FCS this year. I was proud of the way they competed.
Get all kinds of college football stories, rumors, game coverage, and Jim Harbaugh oddity in your inbox every day. The injury to Derwin James is one to keep an eye on, as the star safety left the game in the third quarter with an apparent knee injury. Florida State has scored on 90.6 per cent of its red zone trips since 2010, which is second nationally. With the Tigers struggling against Troy State on Saturday, the voters might decide to move the Seminoles up a spot when the latest rankings are released on Monday.
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More when we know more as suspensions could come from either this game of a Big South Conference contest with Monmouth in a few weeks.
