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Related: About this forumJohnny Manziel to sit half of A&M's opener against Rice for an "inadvertent" rules violation
HOUSTON Johnny Football's season will start a little late.
Johnny Manziel was suspended for the first half of Texas A&M's opening game against Rice on Saturday for what the school called an "inadvertent" violation of NCAA rules by signing autographs.
The penalty appears to have brought a quick end to an investigation that could have ruined the seventh-ranked Aggies' upcoming season.
The school issued a statement Wednesday saying it declared the Heisman Trophy winner ineligible and that the NCAA agreed to reinstate Manziel after he sits out the first half against the underdog Owls.
More at http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2013-08-28/manziel-sit-half-ams-opener-against-rice .
[font color=maroon]A slap on the wrist. The NCAA could have had him sit out the second half of the Alabama or LSU game.
House of Roberts
(5,168 posts)Texas A&M - Little Sisters of the Poor game?
TexasTowelie
(112,125 posts)and neither was the Texas School for the Blind.
mbperrin
(7,672 posts)Whoooop! Now beat the hell outta Rice!! (and everybody else!)
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)The take-home pay from a 90,000 fan stadium is significant to smaller schools.
If the NCAA is going to penalize him for signing autographs, then they need to do the same to Clowney of SC and plenty of other top players. Their autographed crap is out there on eBay, too.
TexasTowelie
(112,125 posts)It should be a guaranteed win for the Aggies against a Division III team that hasn't played football in over six decades!