Earlier this month, Hazell had said multi-sport star might be suspended from the football team for up to four games. However, in revealing the two-day limit on Robinson's suspension, Hazell told the Indianapolis Star, “He did a little more than we asked him to do. He's abided by our curfew and he's been a stellar guy in the last six weeks or however long it's been."
With the two-game suspension, Robinson, 20, will sit out the road trip to Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., and a home game vs. Indiana State. The defensive end/rush end will be eligible to play at the Sept. 19 home game against Virginia Tech. The suspension is only applicable to his role on the Purdue football team, not the wrestling program.
Robinson's suspension is a result of his arrested in late June for his second alcohol-related offense since coming to the Big Ten school in fall 2014. Earlier this summer, the Schereville, Ind. sophomore athlete was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle with a blood alcohol content of 0.15 percent or more and illegal possession of an alcoholic beverage. Those charges triggered a violation of a prior diversion agreement with the courts set up in Aug. 2014 after Robinson had been for minor consumption by Purdue University Police Department in June of that year. A diversion agreement allows a defendant to have the charges dismissed if he or she abides by formal terms and conditions over a certain period of time. According to the terms of that agreement, Robinson made a commitment to, among other things, not to "consume alcohol or alcoholic beverages" and not to "enter any bar, tavern or liquor store" for the duration of the agreement, which had been in effect until Aug. 3, 2015.
Robinson, son of Purdue basketball All-American Glenn Robinson, was a two-time Indiana state wrestling champ at 220 pounds as a junior and senior for Lake Central High School in northwest Indiana. As a freshman this past season at Purdue, the 6'1†Robinson compiled a 3-4 overall record wrestling heavyweight for the Boilermaker wrestling squad and first-year coach Tony Ersland, and was 1-3 in Big Ten dual meets.
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