{"id":26901,"date":"2014-12-08T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/georgia-states-thomas-declared-ineligible\/"},"modified":"2014-12-08T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:03:00","slug":"georgia-states-thomas-declared-ineligible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/georgia-states-thomas-declared-ineligible\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia State&#8217;s Thomas declared ineligible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Georgia State guard Jeff Thomas has been declared ineligible to play this season by the NCAA, the school announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, a 6-foot-5 freshman from Ohio, was signed during the early-signing period last year and hasn&#8217;t yet appeared in a game for the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>He will be a redshirt freshman next season.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia State said it has exhausted the appeals process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are obviously disappointed with the decision,&#8221; Panthers coach Ron Hunter said in a statement. &#8220;We will continue to support Jeff as he works toward his degree this year and look forward to him joining the team as a redshirt freshman next year. We consider the matter closed and will continue to work on improving our team every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Georgia State guard Jeff Thomas has been declared ineligible to play this season by the NCAA, the school announced Monday. Thomas, a 6-foot-5 freshman from Ohio, was signed during the early-signing period last year and hasn&#8217;t yet appeared in a game for the Panthers. He will be a redshirt freshman next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}