The standout catcher from Western Dubuque High School in Iowa, Brett Harris, had his baseball scholarship to Ole Miss rescinded on June 28, roughly a month before he was set to arrive on campus. Harris had been committed to the Rebels for four years, following his older brother Calvin, a national champion catcher at Ole Miss, now in the Chicago White Sox organization.
Harris told USA Today Sports that coach Mike Bianco delivered the news by phone, and that it "didn't hit me fully" at first. "A month and a half before (going to college), what's a kid supposed to do?... You're not giving him much of a chance to go out and find a new school," he said.
