Saturday, April 30, 2011

When will Darnell Dodson's name stop being newsworthy?

It looks like we may have finally heard the last of Darnell Dodson.

Once a blue-chip recruit, Dodson has been kicked off of the Southern Mississippi basketball team by head coach Larry Eustachy. Dodson was arrested on Friday after getting caught stealing from a frat house on the USM campus on Thursday. A car that belonged to one of the members of the frat was also broken into. Former USM player Cory Smith was also arrested.

Dodson enrolled at USM in January, the fourth college that he had attended. The 6'7" wing originally went to Pitt, where he was a member of the recruiting class that also included DeJuan Blair, Gary McGhee, and Brad Wanamaker. But he transferred to Miami-Dade JC in October of 2007 as he was awaiting word from the NCAA's clearinghouse as to whether he would be eligible to play. He spent two years at Miami-Dade, redshirting the first season, before committing to John Calipari at Kentucky.

He had one up-and-down year with the Wildcats, averaging 6.0 ppg in 2009-2010, but was kicked off of the team after the season and arrested back in October of 2010 in Lexington.

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