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Du'Vonta Lampkin, who announced last week he was enrolling at Oklahoma, has not been medically cleared to play, according to coach Bob Stoops.
Guerin Emig of the Tulsa World reported Stoops said Lampkin has not been at Oklahoma long enough to be processed by team doctors.
The defensive lineman originally chose Texas, but it was revealed he didn't have the appropriate credits to be admitted to the school. Lampkin did sign a letter of intent with Texas and although he said he has gained admission to Oklahoma, Texas coach Charlie Strong apparently isn't going to let Lampkin out of his scholarship.
“Here’s my stance on that: we recruited Lampkin, there was so much time that we placed into Lampkin and then he understood what it took to get into school here,” Strong said to the Dallas Morning News. “What I don’t want to see happen is that all of a sudden, we just set the standard where if a young man says, ‘Hey, I have to finish this course and if I don’t finish it I can go somewhere else,’ now we’re opening up the doors for other recruits for that to happen. So if you open up the door for one, what if it happens next year? Where there’s another guy? Or it could be two guys.
“You knew what the requirements were to get in here. It’s the state system. We know this, when you pass one part of the course, you’re going to tell me you can’t go back and pass the other part of it? Not that I would ever stop a young man from getting a college education – I wouldn’t. Once you have standards and you know what you have to go do, just be accountable. Just be a responsible young man. That’s all I’m asking you do.”
(H/T The Dallas Morning News)
