COLLEGE FOOTBALL Recruit: OSU made 'a lot of violations'

Derek Morris will play at North Carolina State this fall.
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RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina State tackle Derek Morris said Sunday the NCAA questioned him about "a lot of violations" while he was at Ohio State, but wouldn't identify the violations.
Morris, a 2002 North Mecklenburg (N.C.) High graduate, signed with the Buckeyes, but the school did not rule him academically eligible. He left school last fall and enrolled in January at N.C. State with four years of eligibility.
Last fall, Morris said, the NCAA questioned him, then talked to Ohio State coaches.
Asked for the result of those questions, Morris shrugged.
"I guess they're still investigating," he said.
Ohio State spokesman Steve Snapp said he wasn't aware of the NCAA's interest in Morris. N.C. State coach Chuck Amato said Morris is eligible.
Declined to elaborate
Morris declined to elaborate on the NCAA's interest in him.
"I guess they got a lot of coaching problems up there," he said. "They made a lot of violations, and I just didn't want to be there. They did a lot of stuff that was totally just wrong. I really can't talk about it, but there was some stuff that they shouldn't have done. As far as the way they treated me wrong, they did some bad things."
N.C. State will visit Ohio State on Sept. 13. Morris said he was eligible to play last season, but wasn't allowed to.
"I really didn't get treated fair," he said. "They said I didn't make my grades, but that's a total lie. I had made a [qualifying score of] 21 on my ACT. Since I wasn't eligible coming up there, they didn't believe I was going to get eligible and I did. I was eligible, and all of a sudden I was getting investigated for no reason."
Ohio State announced it had released Morris from his scholarship on Sept. 30.