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Originally posted: September 15, 2007
Irish Game Day: Jones looks like a Huskie
12:15 p.m.

The Tribune's John Mullin checks in from DeKalb and says that sources indicate Demetrius Jones is enrolled at Northern Illinois -- and is on today's players' pass list for the Huskies' game against Eastern Michigan.

ESPN is also reporting that Jones has enrolled at Northern Illinois, citing an unnamed source.

Mullin reports that Jones has a "Z ID" number, which all students at Northern Illinois are given. Still in question, though, is how much contact -- if any at all -- Jones has had with the Huskies coaching staff.

If Jones enrolled by Wednesday -- and one source close to NIU tells Mullin that was the case -- that means he made the cut-off date for counting this semester toward the year he must sit out.

NCAA rules say a transfer player must be enrolled by the 12th day of classes for the clock to start on the year the player must miss when transferring from one D-IA (bowl subdivision) school to another. Northern Illinois started classes on Aug. 27, making Wednesday that critical day.

Jones, the Morgan Park product who started Notre Dame's season opener, did not board the Irish team bus to Michigan on Friday, setting off a maelstrom of speculation regarding his future with the program. Jones' mother told the Tribune on Saturday morning that she believed her son was done at Notre Dame, though she was not 100 percent sure.