THE SIDELINES : 2 Backs Won’t Be Going to Tempe

An Arizona State football recruit has been sidelined by bad grades, and a Miami of Florida player irked by the departure of Jimmy Johnson to the NFL has given up his attempt to transfer to ASU, the school learned Monday.

Larry Boyd, a running back from Bettie, Tex., said he failed to score high enough on the ACT or SAT college entrance examinations to be able to play for an NCAA school under the NCAA’s eligibility requirements commonly referred to as Proposition 48.

Boyd, a 6-foot-2, 205-pounder who rushed for 2,221 yards and scored 26 touchdowns last season, said he plans to attend a junior college in the Phoenix area to try to bring up his grades.

Meanwhile, Steve Dawson of Denver, the agent for Miami linebacker Darren Krein, said Krein has notified the Collegiate Commissioner’s Assn. that he will not pursue an appeal of a committee decision to make him honor his letter of intent.

Krein had challenged the letter because of alleged misrepresentations by Johnson, former coach of the Hurricanes. Johnson left to become head coach of the Dallas Cowboys 17 days after this year’s letters of intent were signed.