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Recruiting Violations Led to Boise Bans

BOISE, Idaho —Boise State coach Chris Petersen is hop­ing the Bron­cos will have their Dutch trio avail­able for the first time this sea­son against Toledo.

No. 4 Boise State (1–0) opened its sea­son in Atlanta on Sept. 3 with­out senior safety Cedric Febis, sopho­more receiver Ger­aldo Bold­ewijn and sopho­more defen­sive tackle Ricky Tjong-A-Tjoe.

The school announced the day before its opener against Geor­gia that the three play­ers from Ams­ter­dam faced NCAA eli­gi­bil­ity prob­lems. All three played their senior sea­sons in Boise high schools before sign­ing with Boise State.

“We don’t have any new news for the Ams­ter­dam kids, we’re hop­ing we’ll know some­thing soon,” Petersen said while open­ing his weekly news con­fer­ence. “I’m like you guys, I check every day.

“I know we’re going to know more (this week).”

Febis was slated to be one of Boise State’s start­ing safeties and Bold­ewijn was expected to be one of Kellen Moore’s pri­mary tar­gets. Tjong-A-Tjoe had 6.5 tack­les for loss in a backup role in 2010.

“These guys are crushed,” Petersen said. “Cedric’s been here a long time and finally gets his oppor­tu­nity, and the day before the biggest game of his life, or a cou­ple days, it’s like ‘this isn’t going to hap­pen.’ That’s been really, really hard.

“We’re just try­ing to be as sup­port­ive as we can to these guys and we’re just really hope­ful that we get them back.”

Petersen said all three are prac­tic­ing with the team. He hopes to have a few days’ notice whether the play­ers will be able at Toledo (1–1) Fri­day night.

Boise State has not revealed the exact nature of the probe, but did say it was not aca­d­e­mic or a team rules vio­la­tion. Petersen said “they’re look­ing at every­thing from A to Z.”

Say­ing the issue was “very much out of left field,” Petersen acknowl­edged changes in area schools’ rules regard­ing such trans­fers, but also had a bit of sur­prise con­sid­er­ing the play­ers have been with the pro­gram for at least two years each.

“There was no indi­ca­tion there were any prob­lems at all,” he said. “One of the rea­sons was also that after Ger­aldo and Ricky were here, the high schools put a law into effect that they couldn’t come over for one year and play.”

As they did against Geor­gia, the Bron­cos are ten­ta­tively plan­ning on using red­shirt fresh­man Jeremy Ioane and senior Travis Stan­away at safety in Febis’ absence, plus con­tin­ued larger roles for red­shirt fresh­man Matt Miller and true fresh­man Dal­las Bur­roughs to make up for Boldewijn’s size and speed.

Notes: Starter Dan Paul (full­back) is doubt­ful with a groin injury and Joe Kel­logg (guard) is “day-to-day” with a knee injury he suf­fered against Geor­gia. The injury was orig­i­nally labeled one that would keep him out for a few weeks. … Regard­ing Toledo, Petersen said “If you watched the tape of the game against Ohio State, they played right with them. It’s not a fluke. It’s a good foot­ball team.”

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