DEVELOPING: Dasher Decision Down, Suspended For Four

The NCAA has decided Middle Tennessee State quarterback Dwight Dasher must sit out four games and repay a $1,500 loan to become eligible again.

The HQ doesn't know, at present, if they're mutually exclusive or linked as one act.

The NCAA ruled Thursday that Dasher violated preferential treatment rules by receiving a loan from someone in the community. Middle Tennessee has told the NCAA Dasher has repaid the loan.

Dasher already has missed the first two games this season for the Blue Raiders who are 1-1.

Athletic director Chris Massaro says Middle Tennessee respects the decision but is appealing. Massaro says they believe Dasher deserves a three-game suspension instead of four.

Translation: Head Coach Rick Stockstill wants Dasher for the Louisiana-Lafayette game instead of the FAU game...

Here's a copy of the promissory note between Dasher and Oliver Donnell, thanks to our friends at the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal...

Adam Sparks of the DNJ also relays the thought that the amount owed Donnell is now being openly contested. Donnell has maintained, according to AD Massaro, that most of the $1500 owed had been already addressed and that a $150 payment made by Dasher made things square.

Donnell has since waffled on that statement according to MTSU officials.

MTSU Hopes Dashered...??? Did Dwight Gamble With 80-Year-Old's Money...

Middle Tennessee State University campus police are investigating whether senior, all-Sun Belt Conference quarterback Dwight Dasher took money from an 80-year-old man to use for gambling.

Nice work... allegedly... specifically, it is for high-stakes poker...
Apparently... alledgedly...

Word is that a gentleman named Oliver Donnell, a patient at VA hospital in Murfreesboro, reported Dasher to some form of local police in July after Dasher ((allegedly)) wouldn't return his phone calls.

Oops...

MTSU AD Chris Massaro says in a statement the NCAA has been notified about the investigation.

Donnell told a local newspaper he lent $1,500 to Dasher to use for a high-stakes poker game with the promise that Dasher would split winnings with him. Donnell also says he has been interviewed by a consultant working for MTSU to determine if Dasher's eligibility status is now and forever screwed...

Here's the report from Murfreesbro, thanks to our friends at WKRN-TV in Nashville...
Joseph Pleasant got to sit at the anchor table and talk about it...


The key to this whole thing is Dasher's name has come up in an investigation surrounding missing checks involving a teammate, Colin Boss.

The response by Boss where Dasher is concerned will really determine whether or not the Blue Raiders will be in the Sun Belt race this season... or if Dasher's career just flamed out entirely.