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Who Let the Football Player on Miami's Basketball Team?

Jan 28, 2009 – 10:17 PM
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Chas Rich

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Miami's Edwin Rios was supposed to be one of the team's building blocks. The sophomore was a top-20 point guard in the recruiting rankings when he signed with Miami. Instead, he has underachieved and been a problem child. He was first suspended for one game in December, then suspended indefinitely in January. Why? The ever popular "violating team rules."

That is now the least of his concerns as he has been arrested and charged with "two counts of burglarizing an unoccupied dwelling, and two counts of grand theft." So far Miami and the athletic department has no comment.

Miami, has a "zero-tolerance" policy concerning the behavior of its athletes on-the-field after the FIU-Miami football brawl a couple years ago; that has not really been enforced in the realm of basketball. It is a good bet, as the athletic department still tries to overcome the reputation of lawlessness earned by the football program, that Rios is likely done as a Hurricane.
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