Pat Forde just tweeted Ole Miss lifted limitations on transfers
Its on!
Will link story once he writes it. Yahoo!
@yahooForde "Faced with major backlash from players and parents seeking to transfer but facing school-enforced restrictions, Ole Miss reversed course and lifted limitations on football transfers this afternoon. Story to come."
Link to Forde's story
https://sports.yahoo.com/initially-restricting-players-transfer-ole-mis…
EDIT Well shit! Looks like I got out over my skis here. Appologies. Think things through b4 posting.
December 5th, 2017 at 1:55 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 1:57 PM ^
You're exactly right. This just means they can transfer anywhere now. Has nothing to do with the NCAA eligibility rules.
December 5th, 2017 at 5:25 PM ^
to another SEC school if the SEC prevents it. This is assuming they can get by the NCAA rules as well.
Nothing has really changed.
December 5th, 2017 at 1:57 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 3:07 PM ^
is that the three coming to visit Michigan will (hopefully) stick with that through the weekend. They may not have even been interested if there were no limitations previously.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:12 PM ^
Now they can get paid twice!
December 5th, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^
Ole Miss is ceding the authority the rules allow them. Are they doing it to avoid bad PR or a sense that an appeal would go against them? Or likely both? In any case, it may be a sign that the NCAA is going to follow suit on immediate eligibility for the same reasons.
December 5th, 2017 at 1:56 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 2:02 PM ^
This is now going to be a no-holds barred cage match for these guys.
- LSU is going to come after Patterson HARD.
My guess is that we get all three guys coming to visit over the weekend but makes the take of getting Greg Little that much less likely.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 4:21 PM ^
Doesn't always work out but it's the best way to live!
December 5th, 2017 at 1:59 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 2:04 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 2:59 PM ^
As soon as I read the headline I knew this was a reaction to Harbaugh.
December 5th, 2017 at 1:59 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 2:01 PM ^
Some things I do. Apparently not here though.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:02 PM ^
Happens to the best of us
December 5th, 2017 at 2:05 PM ^
Thanks! I was just ready go get some work done and now I feel like I need to stay to take the guff about to be handed my way.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:00 PM ^
Why does the OP think this is a good thing :chinrub.emoji:?
December 5th, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^
Most likely because he thinks this means the NCAA 1 year academic residence rule would be lifted?
December 5th, 2017 at 2:01 PM ^
Wow...anything to keep Harbaugh and Michigan from gaining ground in the south.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:01 PM ^
this only hurts our chances
December 5th, 2017 at 2:01 PM ^
This means the rest of the slimy, cesspool SEC can now be involved.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:04 PM ^
their plane reservations to Oxford.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:01 PM ^
No. It's not bad for us. It puts the pressure on the NCAA to allow waivers because some of the players have said it wasn't just Ole Miss that misled them but actual NCAA officials as well. This will be a PR nightmare for them if they try to restrict them and a legal battle they could easily lose. And quickly. For now it is just the school. It won't stay that way.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:04 PM ^
As for the SEC being involved, I wouldn't worry too much about that. The guys we want are interested in us and have to make quick decisions. They are actually speaking with JH today and visiting with around 10 days or so to make up their minds. I am not worried a bit. I think we're pulling 3 of them.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:03 PM ^
I wish our coach would have known this was coming so he could of been in Mississippi when the news broke.......
December 5th, 2017 at 2:05 PM ^
May change things a little bit, if a guy is looking to stay closer to home and wants to continue getting SEC benefits from a different school. They are looking to play right away, so Michigan is a agreat option at QB, Safety, OT, and WR.
I think we get Patterson and Jefferson for sure. Anderson would start for us if comes. And of course OT would start if they came also.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:10 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 2:16 PM ^
Rumors are it's Little
December 5th, 2017 at 2:19 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
I'm not an insider but I'm just relaying what I'm seeing from other people.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:41 PM ^
That's BIG!
wait, what?
December 5th, 2017 at 4:03 PM ^
If we get those four guys, I love me some hugh freeze and ole miss. Those four guys easily make Michigan the favorites to win the big ten and beyond. It fills all the holes with nfl level talent. Harbaugh I sure hope you close. I see he is not messing around flying down to have lunch with anderson.
Offensive line LT Little LG Bredeson C Ruiz RG Onwenu RT Hudson WR Van Jefferson, Black, DPJ, Perry, Martin. Safetys Anderson, Kinnel or Woods. You guys knnow the rest and it leaves Michigan with no weaknesses. Just a ton of guys who will be getting drafted into the nfl. The o-line and QB will become positions of strength, not weakness. The secondary could become one of the best in the country. The corners are all ready there. The running backs will have more space to run with the offense wide open. Unreal receiving corps with tight end match up nightmares and a Qb who can hurt you in many different ways. No linebackers coming but we don't need them as linebacking corps is only going to be faster and deeper than last year.
Unreal what these four players could do for this team. Patterson may actually be the least needed of the four, but ya will still take him. Starting LT, QB, S, WR. All starters with nfl talent. HARBAUGH....... close the deal.......NC on the way.
December 5th, 2017 at 4:25 PM ^
further...
LT Little LG Bredeson C Ruiz RG Onwenu RT Newsome (fully healed)
That is a playoff level OL!
December 5th, 2017 at 2:16 PM ^
kind of feel like I need to become some degree of an Ole Miss fan by next year. We are going to be like a hybrid.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:22 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 2:59 PM ^
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.freep.com/amp/923410001
December 5th, 2017 at 3:24 PM ^
December 5th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
Good ole sense of entitlement. But whatever, hopefully the kids get to play
December 5th, 2017 at 4:29 PM ^
investigation. I don't know any more than anyone else but we should give the players the benefit of the doubt.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:42 AM ^
Dude, they went to Ole' Miss, many of them as signing day flips.
Let's not pretend we don't know what we know.
December 5th, 2017 at 4:08 PM ^
I got this from a couple of SEC boards.
From the owner of another site:
"Not sure if public yet, but have been told Sankey sent memo to all SEC schools. No OM players will be allowed to transfer within the conference."
They don't want 13 teams picking at the carcus of OM as that won't be fair. So this is still happening for the boys in Blue.
December 5th, 2017 at 4:48 PM ^
December 6th, 2017 at 1:45 AM ^
Hard to believe that Snakeyes would just sit back and let Harbaugh get them.
Wait until Pete hears about this.
December 5th, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^
It would have been nice if they would have nailed these guys earlier so we could have had our Treadwell back
December 5th, 2017 at 4:23 PM ^
A lot of cash withdrawals from banks in the SE United States today! Bag men have been given the green light. Someone more tech savvy than myself would create a .gif of Bourne "assets" getting the go, with SEC luminary faces superimposed as appropriate.