Exactly a week until the Champs Sports Bowl from the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, FL, the Florida Seminoles will be without three of their players in their matchup against Notre Dame.
Both Avis Commack and Arrington Jenkins were suspended earlier this week by FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher. Commack and Jenkins were arrested last week for a felony theft charge. Commack had only nine tackles on the season and I wasn’t even able to find stats for Jenkins, so losing the two players really doesn’t hurt the Noles.
Losing Jermaine Thomas does though.
Florida State’s second leading rusher will miss the game against the Irish on Dec. 29 after failing to pass a class during the fall semester. The senior running back had 279 rush yards on the season and had more than 2,000 yards on the ground over the course of his four-year career at the school.
These legal problems and issues with players passing classes comes as no surprise to most who have followed this program for the last seve...
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PLAYERS:
Avis Commack,
Arrington Jenkins,
Jimbo Fisher,
Jermaine Thomas
TEAMS: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Florida State Seminoles
TEAMS: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Florida State Seminoles
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