{"id":7549,"date":"2013-11-06T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/providence-freshmen-suspended-indefinitely\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T14:31:00","slug":"providence-freshmen-suspended-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/providence-freshmen-suspended-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Providence Freshmen suspended indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Providence, RI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Providence Friars will be shorthanded to begin the 2013-14 campaign after the team announced that freshmen Brandon Austin and Rodney Bullock have been suspended indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Austin and Bullock can still practice but are suspended from game action for &#8220;not upholding their responsibilities as student-athletes.&#8221; Details on the suspension have not been announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hold our student-athletes to very high standards,&#8221; said head coach Ed Cooley. &#8220;We are disappointed in some of the choices that Brandon and Rodney have made. Due to this, we have decided to suspend them indefinitely from any game action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Austin, a 6-foot-6 forward from Philadelphia, was expected to make an immediate impact for the promising young Friars, who won seven of their last 10 regular season games a season ago. The talented swingman was ranked as the third best prospect in the state of Pennsylvania and 12th best small forward nationally by ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Providence kicks off its season on Friday when it plays host to Boston College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providence, RI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Providence Friars will be shorthanded to begin the 2013-14 campaign after the team announced that freshmen Brandon Austin and Rodney Bullock have been suspended indefinitely. Austin and Bullock can still practice but are suspended from game action for &#8220;not upholding their responsibilities as student-athletes.&#8221; Details on the suspension have not [&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-7549","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\/7549","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=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}