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OSU-NCAA meeting set for Tuesday
A compliance officer from OSU will visit with the NCAA on Bryant's behalf.

OSU's Dez Bryant has 17 receptions, including four touchdowns, this year. STEPHEN HOLMAN/Tulsa World

 
By BILL HAISTEN World Sports Writer
Published: 10/9/2009  2:25 AM
Last Modified: 10/9/2009  7:29 AM

During a hearing tentatively scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at the NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis, Scott Williams, Oklahoma State's associate athletic director for compliance, will meet with NCAA staff members on behalf of Dez Bryant.

After Bryant admitted that he lied to an NCAA investigator about interaction with former NFL star Deion Sanders, OSU announced on Wednesday that the All-American junior wide receiver was suspended and will not play in Saturday's Big 12 opener at Texas A&M.

Bryant is ineligible only for participation in games. He is allowed to practice with the 15th-ranked Cowboys, who take a 3-1 record to College Station, Texas.

While meeting with NCAA officials, Williams will make a case for Bryant's reinstatement. Resolution next week would be unlikely.

There is a possibility, a source said, that Bryant would remain ineligible for the rest of the 2009 season.

According to copies of OSU-NCAA e-mail correspondence obtained by the Tulsa World through an open-records request submitted to the university, the NCAA requested Bryant's January-July cell-phone logs.

Bryant was interviewed on July 24 and Sept. 15 by an NCAA investigator, and each interview occurred in Stillwater.

The NCAA became concerned about a Bryant-Sanders meeting because of a rule prohibiting student-athletes from entering into any type of agreement with an agent until their eligibility has been exhausted.

Sanders resides in the Dallas area and is associated with sports agent Eugene Parker. As an NFL player, Sanders was Parker's client.

Bryant admitted to participating in a training session with Sanders at a Dallas-area gym and to having dinner at Sanders' home.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Bryant indicated that when he was questioned by the NCAA about his time with Sanders, he denied that it occurred because he believed that it had been a violation.

In an e-mail to OSU, the NCAA stated that "the matter stems from Bryant's interaction with a former NFL player not affiliated with OSU, and the fact the student-athlete was not completely truthful when discussing details of that interaction with the NCAA."

The New York Times quoted Sanders as saying, "The kid (Bryant) panicked, man. He panicked. He thought it was a violation to come over to my house and it isn't. He said no, that he hadn't been over here, and I (told the NCAA), yeah, he had been over here. I don't lie and he panicked."

Sanders told the Times that he has served as a mentor to Bryant for two years.

During Thursday night's Nebraska-Missouri telecast, ESPN's Jesse Palmer addressed the Bryant suspension.

"You wonder if lying to the NCAA should garner missing the rest of the season," Palmer said. "I certainly don't believe that, but of course the NCAA is going to investigate this and we'll find out if any rules were broken."

This season, Bryant has 17 receptions for 323 yards and four touchdowns. ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. currently rates Bryant the No. 8 prospect overall for the 2010 NFL draft.

As a junior, Bryant is eligible for early entry in the draft.

OSU is involved in an NCAA matter for the second time this year. In August, the NCAA accepted OSU's self-imposed penalties regarding a former Cowboy baseball player who had received a gift — a used car — from an out-of-state church congregation in 2007.


Bill Haisten 581-8397
bill.haisten@tulsaworld.com
By BILL HAISTEN World Sports Writer

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Some reader comments for this story were copied from "OSU-NCAA meeting tentatively set for Tuesday," which was published on 10/8/2009.

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walker7180, katy (10/8/2009 8:03:19 PM)
Spank his hands but not to hard.And let him play on Satuarday.
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soonerman37, Broken Arrow (10/9/2009 12:25:04 AM)
Let's see if I have this right. Dez thought he broke the rules, so he lied. Then he found out that he didn't break the rules, so he came clean.

Now everyone says that he should be allowed to play since he actually didn't do anything. If this was an OU player all the OSU fans would be demanding that he be kicked off the team. However, since it is a star player from OSU, let's just act like it didn't happen.

Let's just look at it like it is. We are talking about athletes who are from the ages of 18 - 23 years old. They all make mistakes and they all get in trouble. If Dez Bryant gets suspended for the year, then OSU needs to move on. If he can come back, then he plays.

Personally it sounds to me like he thought he was doing something wrong in the first place and was going to lie to cover for himself. Why would he lie if he didn't think he was doing something wrong?
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CW Kingston, (10/9/2009 8:56:12 AM)
Soonerman! This is not an OSU OU thing. It is about a bloated power monger (the NCAA) which allows people like Reggie Bush and USC to cash in on the big bucks, while they clamp down OSU, Baylor, and OU for time clock discrepancies and lies (I do believe lying is wrong! Dez seems to be more of a problem than an asset to OSU this year.). As an OSU grad I love the bedlam rivalry, but this is a time for us flyover folks to protest the way we get treated by the NCAA, while the two yonder coasts get away with anything. Let's save our bickering for bedlam week. Then we can let each other have it.
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what now brown cow, (10/9/2009 9:02:46 AM)
yea, its not like he was driving a demo around town for months, or using free gas or putting a friend in the hospital, so the NCAA should really get serious and stomp out that 19 year old without benifit of counsel or advisor making a mistake and lying about something. That they can find.
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definedego, (10/9/2009 11:07:00 AM)
Sooner Man has not been around very long.... He can't remember Brian Bozworth days, OU players raping girls, shooting guns off balconies, QB going to jail for dealing drugs.... Oh yea, Dez bryant lies.... go back and look at the suspensions at OU during that time and then come cry on my shoulder big boy.
 

 
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