For once, the NCAA didn’t screw it up.
And head coach Doug Martin won’t have to “storm the NCAA” and “burn the place down”.
After a lacerated kidney forced him to miss the majority of his fifth-year senior season, Kent State running back Eugene Jarvis has been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA.
“It’s tough to put into words how I feel right now,” Jarvis said in a statement. “God is good and I’m so blessed and thankful to have received the news Friday. I’m so grateful to everyone who made this happen and I can’t wait to get back out on the field with my teammates.”
Jarvis suffered the injury in the second game of the 2009 season. A subsequent CT scan revealed not only the lacerated left kidney, but the fact that he was missing the right kidney as well. That was a fact not previously known.
(Seriously, it wasn’t.)
“I can’t tell you how much this means to Eugene and to our program,” Martin, sans pitchfork and torch apparently, said in the statement. “I would like to thank everyone in our department who worked extremely hard to get this done. I would also like to commend the staff at the NCAA for their commitment to making student-athlete welfare their top priority.”
Jarvis enters the 2010 season as the fourth-leading rusher in school history.
Doug Martin’s a terrible coach. I know Kent isn’t exactly a great program, but the fact that they reward mediocrity by keeping him around each year is beyond me. They don’t deserve to ever have a winning season until they toss that bum and commit themselves to having a winning program.