Thread by @Oregonian

Today's @johncanzanobft column: Turns out a one-time University of Oregon football player was expelled from the college a couple of years ago after it was determined by a campus investigation that he was a safety risk in Eugene. (1/16)

@johncanzanobft Tristen Wallace, a 6-foot-3 and 220-pound receiver, was accused of rape by two female students. The university investigated, agreed there was a pile of evidence and kicked him off campus. Oregon also stamped his transcript with, “Expelled for sexual misconduct.” (2/16)

@johncanzanobft Turns out, that’s not nearly enough. (3/16)

@johncanzanobft A terrific piece of reporting from @kennyjacoby at @USATODAY has all the details. Including the subsequent efforts by Wallace’s mother to have her son’s transcript scrubbed of that stamp.

(Read that story here: gatehousenews.com/predatorpipeli…) (4/16)

@johncanzanobft @kennyjacoby @USATODAY Then, Wallace apparently went on like nothing happened. He eventually landed at @PVAMU, where he still plays football and basketball. One day, he dreams he’ll play in the NFL. (5/16)

@johncanzanobft @kennyjacoby @USATODAY @PVAMU But this column won’t be about football. It will be about the more than 23,000 students on campus in Eugene who don’t play football. It will be about students at all NCAA member institutions.

They matter.

I wonder why the NCAA refuses to say it. (6/16)

@johncanzanobft @kennyjacoby @USATODAY @PVAMU Oregon kicked Wallace out because it was protecting the rest of the student body. He was never charged with a crime. There’s a higher burden of proof in a criminal case and the district attorney determined that it would be difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. (7/16)

@johncanzanobft @kennyjacoby @USATODAY @PVAMU Per the story, a university investigator found Wallace’s behavior to be predatory and established that he was responsible for both rapes. (8/16)

@johncanzanobft @kennyjacoby @USATODAY @PVAMU Oregon was thinking about student safety. That’s a good thing. And by placing that glaring stamp on his transcript UO was trying to protect other students around the country, too. (9/16)

@johncanzanobft @kennyjacoby @USATODAY @PVAMU At least in theory, because when Prairie View A&M reportedly offered Wallace a scholarship, his transcripts still bore that troubling stamp.

It took him anyway. (10/16)

@johncanzanobft @kennyjacoby @USATODAY @PVAMU I’ve long believed that the responsibility for campus safety extended to athletics department staff. The coaches and administrators are actively bringing students to campus to matriculate alongside the general student body. (11/16)

If you or I or a coach delivers a violent offender to campus, we don’t get to walk away from the wreckage. There’s a tremendous duty to get it right because the stakes are so high. (12/16)

In 2016, Oregon brought a wide receiver to campus to play football. He allegedly turned out to be such a creep that the Ducks had no choice but to flush him. Then, he packed up, left and popped up somewhere else. (13/16)

UO appears to have acted with good faith in quickly investigating and banning Wallace from its campus so he couldn’t continue his behavior. (14/16)

But I’m troubled by the university’s subsequent willingness to negotiate the removal of that stamp. It was put there to alert any other institution that took Wallace on. That mark should have stayed there, with the Ducks kicking and screaming in a federal court. (15/16)

Where is the NCAA on any of this?

Turns out, nowhere.

Read the full @johncanzanobft column here: bit.ly/2LS3bJ4 (16/16)