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MIAMI University of Miami quarterback Robert Marve was told Friday that he has been suspended for the season opener against Charleston Southern, his former high school coach and others confirmed Saturday. The suspension stems from an incident last year in Coconut Grove, Fla., multiple sources said.
Freshman Jacory Harris is expected to start UM's opener Thursday at Dolphin Stadium.
But associates said Marve indicated that coaches reaffirmed their faith in him. Marve was told, according to multiple sources, that he has won the job as starting quarterback. He is expected to start Sept. 6 against Florida in Gainesville.
“Robert is upset. Robert's family is upset. We were having trouble seeing the wisdom of how an incident from last season is being handled,” Eugene Marve, Robert's father and a former NFL linebacker, told The Miami Herald on Saturday by phone. “But at the end of the day, we have to say that his actions created this.”
Robert Marve was unavailable for comment.
He initially was charged with two misdemeanors — resisting arrest without violence and minor criminal mischief — after officials say he broke the mirror of a car and briefly tried to evade police on foot Halloween night in Coconut Grove.
