Written by Dennis Dodd at CBSSports.com
At the low point, Jeremy Faulk was sneaking food from the Baylor training table.
Last June, the Bears’ budding redshirt junior defensive lineman had lost his scholarship suddenly and with finality. Faulk was not only kicked off the team and out of school, he was essentially wiped from Baylor records in a day without being told what the specific allegations were against him.
One thing was for sure: His head was spinning. The meal card that players can swipe at training table check out suddenly didn’t work.
The former national junior college defensive player of the year had no money, nowhere to go and barely a place to lay his head.
“I stayed with another D-lineman on his couch,” Faulk told CBS Sports, recounting the days immediately after being kicked out of Baylor last summer. “It was a little rough. I spent all my Pell [Grant], staying on his couch, sneaking food out of Baylor.”
Somehow there is justice to Faulk literally getting nourishment out of the back door of the athletes’ food court. Because the allegations against Faulk are — to this day — so muddled, he has a puncher’s chance in next month’s NFL Draft.
“Jeremy almost created a situation they don’t have rules for,” said Jeff Sims, his junior college coach.
Could it be that a school derided for ignoring sexual assault victims overreacted in Faulk’s case? A daring suggestion but no matter what you think of him, Faulk has endured a legal, academic, athletic and administrative wringer.
Soon after Art Briles was fired in late May, Faulk was questioned by school officials about two incidents. One of them allegedly occurred during his time at Florida Atlantic in 2013.
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