Oregon coach Chip Kelly announced today that suspended RB LeGarrette Blount can return to the Oregon football team, but only if he meets a series of “laddered expectations,” and not before the November 7th game against Stanford.Kelly’s own words on the situation:
Chip Kelly Press Conference: Blount Can Return, But Not Before Stanford Game
“He has a rigid set of conditions he must live up to and there are certainly no guarantees in place. This merely provides him the opportunity for my reconsideration in the future should he meet those demands.”
Kelly met with many experts and consulted with outsiders in the decision, including America’s new Athlete Rehabilitation Czar, Tony Dungy, who urged Kelly to give Blount another chance with the proper conditions. Blount has signed a contract agreeing to the terms he is to live under if he wants to play, and any violation thereof means getting the immediate and final boot from his spot in Eugene.
If he does return for the Stanford game, Blount will have served a seven game suspension, missing over half of his final year in Eugene and severely denting his NFL draft stock with every team in the NFL except the Bengals.
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