Blue Raiders Quarterback Dwight Dasher A High Stakes Poker Fish

The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (MTSU) senior quarterback Dwight Dasher has thrown his season in doubt following revelations about an “ongoing investigation” of the 22 year-old by campus police.
At the heart of his problems would seem to be a love of high stakes poker despite apparently not possessing the necessary skills to be successful at the game.
As a result Dwight Dasher ended up borrowing money from an octogenarian patient at York VA Medical Center named Oliver Donnell, who would then set him up at several cash poker games. As Donnell explains:
“(Dasher) said to me, ‘Will you put me in a (poker) game? I play real good…So (Dasher) takes $300 because I said, ‘I’ll let you have $300 and we will split the winnings.’
“Well, he comes back 45 minutes later and said he played in a game in Murfreesboro and lost it. You got me? He lost it. L-O-S-T.”
Despite a few winning nights where he won up to $2,500, in the long run Dwight Dasher kept on losing and borrowing more money from Donnell.
When the loan had reached $1500 Dasher allegedly wrote him a cheque stolen from his team and roommate Colin Boss. However, the cheque was void as the name had been changed on it and was consequently never cashed.
Eventually, Dwight Dasher stopped returning Donnell’s telephone calls and so he filed a complaint with the campus police on July 27th.
At this point, the sheriff’s office is not involved, no formal charges have been filed against Dasher and the incident is part of an ongoing university inquiry. As Donnell explains:
“I left him a message and told him I’d have him arrested if he didn’t pay me, and he finally called back and said he had been home for an emergency. Nothing would’ve happened if he had just answered the phone. I don’t want the boy to get in trouble. I want him to play pro ball somewhere and get a contract, so I can go out there and beat him (in a poker game) and get my money back.”