Another Illinois Player in Legal Trouble/Illini Gone Wild!

[bert notorius]

Kinda off-topic, but I was wondering if the Illini pulled Trent Meacham's scholarship? I know when he recieved his scholarship after walking-on, he signed a clause that said Illinois had the right to take his scholarship away. Right now I count 13 scholarship players without Meacham, and then 5 walk-ons. Just curious.

Meacham's current status is "preferred walk-on".

[tornado]

By the way, if you do a little digging you find that numerous Illini players have had recent traffic offenses...it's all in the police data search file...
Not just McBride & Jamar, but Brock, Holdren, Meacham, Marcus Arnold...

And seems like every day the Champaign Co. State's Attorney Julia Reitz is in the news again in regards to some Illinois athlete getting arrested!
Now even more!

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/cs-070508illinifoot,1,2120411.story?coll=cs-college-headlines

I know the Illini fans will think we're picking on them, but take this up with the Trib...

[wingrider81]

Hey Coach

Hey Coach,
Thirteen scholies plus five walkons divided into two levels?
I love the two (or more) levels of walkons. I wonder if the
elders at Temple Square in SLC designed their status. (PM me
if you are interested in the LDS church BTW).

Now I understand football. You start with 11 2-way guys.
Then you put in a defense and special teams. Then a goal-
line defense and a red-zone offense. And on and on.

Coach, how many bodies do you need out there before it
all becomes a flaping circus? Was it like this when there was
freshmen teams? Or did the frosh practice separately?
I think at the deepest drought, BU was down to 8 scholly
players..

And anyone else with experience, feel free to chime in.
Thanx in advance all. Wing 1981

[TheAsianSensation]

Kinda off-topic, but I was wondering if the Illini pulled Trent Meacham's scholarship? I know when he recieved his scholarship after walking-on, he signed a clause that said Illinois had the right to take his scholarship away. Right now I count 13 scholarship players without Meacham, and then 5 walk-ons. Just curious.

Meacham is a walk-on actually, and I think there's a mutual agreement that if a scholly is available, then he'll get one, but if not, he is a walk-on for the year.

As for Brock.....sheesh. What the heck is going on over there?