D.J. Funderburk Charged in Parking Incident Prior to Suspension

Everyone hates parking tickets…especially college students. Maybe college athletes hate them more.

Funderburk had a handful of outstanding on-campus parking tickets, and walked back to his car in the Reynolds Coliseum Parking Deck to find not 1…not 2…not 3…but 4 car boots on his tires. While they don’t roll all that well, Funderburk drove off with the boots on, leaving two in the dust, and dragging two with him.

As a result, the boots and parking lot were damaged for a total of $330.

NC State’s campus transportation department declined to prosecute the charge.

Head Coach Kevin Keatts said there is no timetable for his return at this point at NC State’s Media Day press conference.

“I won’t get into much of it, because that’s our internal deal placed upon him basically from the basketball program. I will say this is, I have a certain expectation of what I think an NC State player should be, and right now he hasn’t met that.

“There is no timetable for his return. He’s got some benchmarks that I want him to meet to be able to join the team. When it happens, he’ll be a part of it. If it doesn’t, he won’t.

Right now, he’s not allowed to do anything basketball related. He’s to maintain academics. He’s allowed to come into this building to work out, but as far as anything team related, we don’t have him involved.” (GoPack)

With that being said, PackPride reported that the suspension is likely to be three games.