No fan of NC but if you need further proof the NCAA blows
September 7th, 2023 at 9:15 PM ^
Tell him to walk over to the basketball court. They got away with everything and anything. No sympathy.
That said, it sounds like a shitty thing for the kid
September 7th, 2023 at 11:52 PM ^
I used to coach him in basketball. He's athletic as hell. Would be fun to see him back in the hardwood.
September 8th, 2023 at 8:56 AM ^
By him, I meant Mack brown... UNC's basketball team hasn't "schooled" in 3 decades, and the NCAA doesn't blink.
September 8th, 2023 at 3:32 PM ^
No he meant he coached Mack Brown. This is Craig Ross's MGOBLOG account.
September 7th, 2023 at 9:50 PM ^
So he's ineligible for this season. But he's still in school, and eligible for future seasons, right?
(Scanned the article quickly and didn't indicate how many years he's got left).
September 7th, 2023 at 10:06 PM ^
The only thing the NCAA does well is make the case that it should be dissolved.
September 7th, 2023 at 10:17 PM ^
No further proof needed. RESOLVED: The NCAA blows.
September 7th, 2023 at 10:32 PM ^
What can happen if they just say screw it and their conference decides not to enforce it? What can the NCAA actually do?
September 7th, 2023 at 10:36 PM ^
Let’s look at the NCAA. This young man seems to have a fair and valid reason.
IIRC, a few years ago - a player on Georgia’s football team felt the environment in Athens was “unsafe for him to play.” It was threatening - and oppressive.
The NCAA approved a waiver which allowed him to transfer with immediate eligibility.
At the same time time, this Georgia player’s sister was also enrolled at Georgia and exposed to the same environment. She stayed at Georgia and didn’t have any issues.
The player’s name… Justin Fields. He transferred from Georgia to Ohio State.
The NCAA is a joke.
September 8th, 2023 at 8:39 AM ^
The difference in this case (I'm assuming this made the difference) is that this would've been his second transfer. He want from NC Central to Kent State to UNC. This seems to be where the holdup is with their decision. I guess you can do it once for reasons that are suspect, at best, but not twice, even if for legitimate health reasons.
There have also been plenty of cases of the NCAA denying waivers to kids moving closer to home b/c it's just a little bit outside the radius to be considered "close enough to home" or b/c it's to help take care of a family member and not themselves or whatever stupidity it is.
But the kid who feels unsafe when his sister and every single one of his teammates don't? Let's give him a free ticket!
September 8th, 2023 at 9:44 AM ^
I agree, the second transfer seems to have been the issue.
The NCAA lacks so much clarity in their guidelines and policies. Transfer and NIL are two examples.
September 7th, 2023 at 10:50 PM ^
"I work for a drug cartel."
"I work for big plastic."
"I work for big tobacco."
"I'm with big oil."
"I run Urban Meyer's PR team."
"I run guns between diamond mines in Africa."
"I'm Putin's priest."
"Hi everyone first time with the group, I work with the NCAA..."
All: "Oh go to Hell how dare you show your face here."
September 7th, 2023 at 10:57 PM ^
UNC should play him and tell the NCAA to fuck off. We are getting very close to teams just outright ignoring the NCAA anyway, so UNC may as well start it
September 8th, 2023 at 6:32 PM ^
Completely impractical. I'm not even sure that they could get insurance to host unsanctioned football games. Plus, you have the issue that other schools won't want to play your team if you opt not to honor your commitment to following the rules of intercollegiate athletics. Think of the enormous advantage you would have! You wouldn't even have to accept any of the penalties imposed on your team during the game.
September 8th, 2023 at 8:32 AM ^
This means double post, right? RIGHT???
September 7th, 2023 at 11:34 PM ^
Have any of these rejected appeals ever gone through the justice system? I'd have to believe that some judge would love to tell the NCAA to kick rocks on this B.S.
September 8th, 2023 at 8:41 AM ^
Now that the players are making over the table money, it does open all sorts of legal theories like tortious interference for example.
September 8th, 2023 at 11:28 AM ^
Yeah, the fact he didn't play at NC Central due to COVID should have been a mitigating issue as well.
I do get the NCAA not wanting to give away too many transfers, and if he had played at his first stop before going to Kent St. I would get more behind the NCAA's logic. But yeah, this was a weird situation that the NCAA probably should have resolved differently.
September 8th, 2023 at 3:48 PM ^
This is the shit (players instead of schools though) that Coach Jerry Tarkanian was talking about.
September 8th, 2023 at 6:36 PM ^
I'd argue that there were a number of issues that argued in favor of a waiver, but the fact is that he transferred knowing that he might not get a waiver.
I think that he is a victim of the NCAA's promise to the smaller schools to crack down on transfer waivers. That this promise was issued after he transferred, however, is just another argument in favor of granting the waiver.
September 9th, 2023 at 12:55 AM ^
No, he did not know that risk
On Jan. 11, the NCAA announced it would be cracking down on allowing waivers for two-time transfers, two days after Walker began classes at North Carolina.