OT: Auburn RB Michael Dyer to Arkansas State

Submitted by JR's Flow on

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7444144/michael-dyer-aub…

One of the top RB's of the 2010 class, and young sensation for Auburn has decided to follow his OC Gus Malzahn  to Arkansas State. Chizik suspended him indefinitely before the Chick-Fil-A  Bowl for disobeying a undisclosed team rule.

Crazy turn of events for Dyer whose "I WUZ DOWN, NO I WUZN'T" play led to Auburn beating Oregon in the 2011 BCS National Championship Game.

RickH

January 10th, 2012 at 12:01 AM ^

Could be wrong but what I think he's saying is that it's too late for them to fail because they already got away with the Newton thing in the NCAA's eyes and won a national championship because of it.

JackDonaghy

January 9th, 2012 at 11:46 PM ^

like this article came out three days ago. Sure, it was unoffial, but the Arkansas State players were already welcoming him to the team.  So no, the AP didn't "break" any news, they just confirmed what was a forgone conclusion to most.

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-01-06/michael-dyer-transfer-release-auburn-arkansas-state-malzahn

In reply to by Mr.Mario86

Dion

January 9th, 2012 at 11:07 PM ^

I don't know much about either I just always asume colleges with State in the name are worse then those without unless it says "tech" or "online/community" instead

Space Coyote

January 10th, 2012 at 12:56 AM ^

Ohio St > Ohio.

Other than that there aren't really any, which makes sense considering how the system was pretty much set up with "State" schools as land grant schools.  It's actually pretty crazy that a few are really in the same ball park

A few others that are at least in a relative ball park and still pretty good schools (so not looking at LSU and ~50 in many rankings of non-state university) include N. Carolina State and Penn St.  You can probably throw MSU in if you want to stretch that a little bit (goes to show the power of the Big Ten in academics).  PSU and MSU, both being Land Grant schools, have expanded quite well into institutions beyond their original intention.

gte896u

January 10th, 2012 at 10:54 AM ^

in no way whatsoever is Arkansas state a better school than Auburn. auburn has been a top 50 public for like 20 years in a row and is 82 overall in USNWR.