Chambers set to transfer from Y.
BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall responded to questions tonight after practice about wide receiver O’Neill Chambers, who was suspended for the rest of the season on Monday.
Mendenhall said that Chambers plans to finish up this semester at BYU, then transfer.
“I’ve got a list of schools that we released him to today,” Mendenhall said. “There were six or seven of them. I can’t recall any of them what they were. That rarely means that’s where he’ll end up. But he had a list that he was interested in.”
They are all FBS (or Division I) schools, Mendenhall said.
Asked to characterize Chambers’ career, Mendenhall said, “I don’t know if I could characterize it. I’m hopeful to help every player in the program to reach their goals and mature as people, make decisions and learn and grow. I don’t think in that case that I could say I’ve been successful.”
Mendenhall added: “We all learn from choices we make. Sometimes there’s only so many choices and chances you can be given before it starts to affect the team.”
Asked how Chambers’ absence will affect the team, Mendenhall said, “We’ve already been through it once this season, so I don’t think it will really affect us at all.”
Mendenhall said the decision to suspend Chambers was not too hard. “In this particular case, it’s always hard to see a player make repeated mistakes. But in relation to what I thought was right, it wasn’t that difficult.”


