Axon won’t enroll at Carolina

Running back Ben Axon, who just recently responded to The State reporter Joe Person’s story on his marijuana arrest, won’t be attending Carolina after all. According to USC coach Steve Spurrier, the heralded recruit wasn’t admitted to school and is looking at other options.

He was rated as a four-star back and did meet NCAA requirements, but his entry into a pre-trial intervention program for the arrest and that combined with high school grades led Carolina to giving him the thumbs-down.

“He just wasn’t admitted. And as coaches, we understand why he wasn’t admitted,” Spurrier said in The State. “There’s a lot of players all over the country that are NCAA qualifiers, that universities don’t admit. So we understand that. I don’t want to go into all the reasons, but that happens sometimes.”

Axon’s supposedly looking at Purdue and West Virginia. In 2007, the Mountaineers took top-level running back Noel Devine, who also had issues from his time in high school. It was expected before Devine signed with WVU that he would have had to go the prep school route for a year to get his affairs in order.