By Matt Hinton
• We Hardly Knew Ye. There was plenty of intrigue Monday around the sudden, unexplained exit of Syracuse receiver Mike Williams
just a few days after he was named one of 10 semifinalists for the
Biletnikoff Award as the best receiver in the country. Williams has a
winding history at SU: An instant-impact type as a true freshman, he
was All-Big East as a sophomore in 2007 before being declared
academically ineligible in 2008; after working his way back into school
and onto the roster under new coach Doug Marrone, Williams was making
the best of his second chance by leading the conference in receiving, but was also suspended
for undisclosed reasons in the Orange's Oct. 24 win over Akron. He
returned to catch four passes last Saturday against Cincinnati, but
even before the suspension, there were ominous warnings to the world on Williams' Facebook page, which the student Daily Orange reported last week:
"I HATE COLLEGE I CANT SEE ME DOING THIS FOR LONG……..HINT HINT.-0 LMAO"
That message was eventually replaced with the athletic department line: "Everyone Im (sic) staying in school to get my degree sorry for the faulse (sic) information every one getting."
But the initial message, in addition to being more grammatically
convincing, was very accurate: For whatever reason -- if there is a
reason beyond an aversion to exerting effort under someone else's
direction -- Williams is gone from 'Cuse for the second time in two
years and this time won't even be offered any hoops to jump through to
return to the fold.
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