Oregon and Government Secretively Aided Transfer of Former Duck Accused of Sexual Assault

Fresh off a Pac-12 championship and ahead of a date against Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl slated for New Year's Day, this is the last sort of distraction that Mario Cristobal and Oregon wanted to have emerge.

Back in 2016, former Ducks acclaimed wideout recruit Tristen Wallace was indefinitely suspended from the team just two weeks into his first semester after two female students separately accused him of rape.

Following an investigation, Wallace was ultimately expelled from the university, but that (somehow) didn't mark the end of his collegiate career.

University of Oregon thought Tristen Wallace was too dangerous to be on its campus after he was accused of two rapes in four months in 2016.

Why is the NCAA good with Wallace being eligible to play anywhere at all?

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— John Canzano (@johncanzanobft) December 13, 2019

That's right, folks. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound pass catcher is presently playing for Prairie View A&M, a second-rate Division I school in Houston. How is this possible?

Because the NCAA has no set of rules pertaining to college athletes facing sexual or criminal misconduct charges. That, unfortunately, is just the beginning of this ugly narrative.

Per Yahoo Sports, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) orchestrated a deal between Oregon and Wallace's mother that saw the Ducks indefensibly agree to mitigate the sexual assault charges to merely "sexual misconduct" violations on Wallace's transcript.

.@kennyjacoby also found that the Ed Department facilitated a confidential deal between @uoregon and an athlete's mother to change a notation on his transcript that would have indicated to other schools he was expelled for sexual misconduct.

Wow.https://t.co/akNmPy1yfj
— Asia Fields (@asiakmfields) December 12, 2019

Like most of you probably are, we are finding it impossible to comprehend why the federal government would turn to these kind of measures to attempt to nullify a charge as serious and daunting as sexual assault.

Coaches and officials of Prairie View A&M declined to provide a statement to the findings and Wallace and his family reportedly failed to answer several calls and emails.