Medical waiver unlikely for Hokies’ Davon Morgan
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Media General News Service
Published: October 1, 2008
Virginia Tech will try to petition the NCAA for a medical-hardship waiver for sophomore rover Davon Morgan, but Tech’s compliance director, Tim Parker, is not optimistic.
Morgan, a Varina graduate and one of Tech’s four Richmond-area starters, tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during Saturday’s game at Nebraska, Tech’s fifth of the season.
He had played in every game this season, which decreases his chances of getting a waiver. It would allow him to redshirt and retain three years of eligibility. He did not redshirt as a freshman.
The NCAA grants waivers to football players who suffer season-ending injuries, such as Morgan’s, as long as they don’t play more than four games and the injury occurs in the first half of the season.
“The NCAA is very, very strict on this and very unwilling to budge,“ Parker said.
He will try to find at least one previous case in which the NCAA has granted a waiver to a player in situation like Morgan’s. “In the absence of that, it would be very much a long shot,“ Parker said.
He plans to submit paperwork to the NCAA in January and hear back shortly thereafter.
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