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LB Marchiol won’t play at Colorado

Field Level Media

July 18, 2019 at 7:28 pm.

Colorado has split with linebacker Santino Marchiol, a local product who had hoped to resurrect his college football career with the Buffaloes, after his arrest last month.

Marchiol, 21, was arrested on June 24 in Pueblo, Colo., on suspicion of second-degree assault bodily injury, a felony, in an alleged domestic violence incident. He also faces two misdemeanor assault charges and a violation for contempt of a protection order, the Denver Post reported Thursday.

Marchiol was set to join the Buffaloes next month as a walk-on but has been told by first-year coach Mel Tucker not to show up.

“Santino was never enrolled as a CU Boulder student,” the university said in a statement. “He was invited to be a walk-on for the football team this fall. Coach Tucker has since rescinded that invitation.”

Marchiol played at Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, Colo, until transferring to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., in his senior season. Ranked as a four-star prospect in the Class of 2017, he committed to Texas A&M and coach Kevin Sumlin in June 2016.

An injury kept him on the sidelines in 2017, and he has yet to play a down of college football.

Sumlin was fired in November 2017 and replaced by Jimbo Fisher. Marchiol levied allegations that Fisher’s coaching staff broke several NCAA rules during its first offseason at College Station.

He told USA Today that shortly after Fisher’s staff took over, linebackers coach Bradley Dale Peveto twice improperly gave him money to entertain recruits in amounts ranging up to $400 — well above the allowed $40 NCAA limit. He also alleged that the coaching staff put him and other players through practice sessions in June that were couched as voluntary but were workouts that violated NCAA practice rules. He also said his injury was mishandled.

Marchiol left Texas A&M to rejoin Sumlin at his new program, Arizona. However, Arizona dismissed Marchiol last Aug. 27 after a video surfaced apparently showing him twice using the word “monkey” to refer to a former Texas A&M teammate.

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