Ishaq Williams won’t play another down of college football, his career cut down by last fall’s academic misconduct investigation and this week’s lost appeal with the NCAA.
The NCAA closed the book on Ishaq Williams this week when it denied his appeal for reinstatement. Yet that finality didn’t clear up everything with the defensive end.
Brian Kelly still couldn’t publicly differentiate between the cases of Williams and Keivarae Russell, who was reinstated this month. The confusion even tripped up the head coach when he mistakenly said Williams’ scholarship still counts against the 85-man limit for Notre Dame’s current roster, which it does not.