Ex-Oregon QB Masoli one step closer to joining Ole Miss, or is he?
Houston Nutt, Ole Miss, Oregon, college football — posted by matt murschel on July, 29 2010 11:09 AM
Discuss This: Comments(0) | Add to del.icio.us | Digg it Former Oregon Ducks QB Jeremiah Masoli is one step closer to joining the Ole Miss program.
Former Oregon QB Jeremiah Masoli could be one step closer to Ole Miss. (AP Photo)
Wednesday it was reported the Rebels head coach Houston Nutt had received permission from the Mississippi administration to start working out the logistics to get Masoli to the Oxford campus.
“We’re just looking into the entire situation, from the background, to his (academic) transcripts, to his graduation (from Oregon) to graduate school—the whole bit,” Nutt told the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard. “We’ve made no determination.”
Nutt said that the whole thing will be resolved soon.
“Time is a factor,” Nutt told the paper.
Apparently he wasn’t kidding when he said it will be resolved soon.
Rivals.com is reporting that a source within the program has confirmed that Masoli has been admitted to graduate school at Ole Miss.
The NCAA still has to approve the transfer.
Masoli received his undergraduate degree this summer from Oregon and could only transfer without sitting out a year if he could find a graduate program that is not offered by the Ducks.
So it’s only a matter of time before Masoli is a Rebel right?
Not so fast my friends, the Oregonian is reporting that a probation violation could hold up the whole deal.
Masoli pleaded guilty to misdemeanor burglary charge in March and received a year’s probation. A later run-in with the law concerning marijuana possession ultimately ended his career at Oregon and last week he pleaded guilty to possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and failing to stop upon exiting a driveway.
That plea could violate his parole according to Dan Koenig, Masoli’s attorney.
“There still is the potential that the district attorney could file a probation violation,” Koenig said. “We don’t know if they see these violations – not crimes – in Springfield as a probation violation.”
According to Koening, there hasn’t been any indication from the district attorney’s office on how or when it would rule.
Houston Nutt has indicated that he expects to make a decision by this weekend.
Stay tuned.