Ole Miss Fighting Transfers
I thought I would throw this out there before April Fools Day. That way there is no confusion. Ole Miss will be fighting the "immediate eligibility" of those that are requesting transfers. Yes, that means Shea Patterson. Let's just say Ole Miss came out firing with their rebuttal to the NCAA. They are not going to admit any wrong doing or grant approvals for the players in question.
Michigan could have been more aggressive and used more documentation that was made available to them from Shea's attorney. Furthermore, Michigan may submit additional documentation if they can (not guaranteed). They are going to need it. Shea's attorney is far less optimistic than he was a week ago. Hence the statement, he is referring all future inquiries to Michigan's David Ablauf. For the first time in weeks, I am starting to think this going to be a 50/50 decision at best.
Attorney's advising Michigan are adamant that they miscalculated the Ole Miss response. Brace yourselves for the worst and pray for the best. We know what the right thing to do is, but we are now dealing with a corrupt instituition (Mississippi) and an organization (NCAA) with a less than stellar track record in making the right decisions!
Someone explained to you why this is fucking irritating behavior and you even said "solid advice" as if you were going to take it.
I was skeptical that your behavior would change, and XtraMelanin got butthurt about this skepticism. You know, for a while you were one of the very few old people I could actually stand.
I give up. Not worth the energy.
stupid fucking baby boomers lmao. go jerk yourself off elsewhere. also aren't you the guy that said you were done with Michigan football about four years ago? I believe you made a goodbye post. you should have to wear a scarlet letter for that. pathetic.
I think it's interesting to read what's going on with the lawyers, regardless of what else is happening with Michigan sports. If it turns out to be the lawyers were wrong and worrying too much, and Shea Patterson getting the waiver was a given all along, we can handle it.
We're all big boys, aren't we.......... aren't we?
stand for?
Scheisse?
We must watch different kinds of pornography, because I could spell that without looking it up... :-D
This is so Mississippi it hurts. They're willing to show every recruit in the country from now until the end of time that they don't give a fuck about student athletes just to spite 6 kids who want to play somewhere else this season. Incredible.
Exactly...I mean what does Ole Miss stand to gain by doing this? The players are not coming back to them. It just makes them look spiteful and stupid enough to draw attention to it.
March 31st, 2018 at 10:10 PM ^
So I am assuming Hugh Freeze is going to have to sit out a year too! Fuck the ncaa!
Why did Michigan need so much time to prepare their original case? I thought it was because they were trying to be as thorough as possible, now you're saying they actually could have done more. It sounds like Michigan compliance or whoever is responsible screwed this up.
UM fans direct WAY too much money towards the program and instead of most of it going to the players, it goes to administrators, coaches and staff -- like attorneys.
They get paid over top dollar, and we need to be getting top dollar services.
This was just released today.
I guarantee that we ALL hope you are right too.
This board has seen guarantees by posters before, even from folks on CounterStrike... I hope you're right and think the other schools fighting for their players will bolster Shea's evidence here. Time will tell, but at the end of the day both the NCAA and Ole Miss are horrible institutions.
OK....
March 31st, 2018 at 10:13 PM ^
Dickite. You are the king of Dickite. And Assholeum too...
I'm also not that worried about OM fighting it since the NCAA already concluded that OM committed serious violations. The NCAA's current position on OM is that they committed serious recruiting violations, so if Michigan and the other schools show that OM told recruits that OM was not getting in trouble for the things that the NCAA eventually found them to be guilty of, then the waiver decision should still be easy. OM is appealing the NCAA's current position on the matter, but that appeal will not be decided before the waivers.
It just pisses me off that they would fight it. It's a very petty Southern grudge thing to do with little to no benefit for OM.
I am just passing on that they fought the waiver request. Fools like Mineral King can't comprehend what is being passed along in real time.
Thanks for all the insight again, always love it. Quick question though.
Why wasn't Michigan more aggressive and use all of the documentation they had available? What was there to gain by being conservative?
Only passing along what the lawyers said.
Ole Miss is A. not a favored program, so the NCAA was less willing to turn the cheek with them, and B. they cheated so egregiously, so blatantly, and in such a stupid fashion that they forced the NCAA to act.
Also I don't really know how your response relates to what I said. It's a bit of a non-sequitor, and possibly actually goes to my point?
The irony of the feel good story of "Blind Side", is that it quite possibly provoked the NCAA to redouble their efforts and investigations of Ole Miss.
Oher shoulda gone to Tennessee
His Foster Parents (Sandra Bullock and some generic dude) were (are) big Ole Miss alums and boosters. In the movie, the NCAA was suspicious that the foster parents adopted Oher as a means to steer him towards Ole Miss. The movie didn't implicate any inappropriate behvior at all on the behalf of the parents at all but not sure what happened in real life.
Perhaps I am a simpleton, but if Mississippi agreed to the waiver, they are partially admitting wrong doing which would hurt them in their appeal to the NCAA.
While we wished they supported a waiver, this does not surprise me.
Now we will see if there is any impartiality and honesty and support for the student athlete in the NCAA.
Wonder what would happen if Shea is disallowed, but we take a very bold stance and attempt to play him anyway?
Clearly we would take a financial hit, but so would ND, the OSU, and all of our opponents.
The advisable thing was to not comment. I am certain that supporting the waiver was never on the table, but fighting it will do more PR damage with families & recruits than the potential benefit they get from it for their appeal. I seriously think this was a bad move by OM because I don't think it will stop Shea and others, I don't think it will help with their appeal, and it makes them look really really really bad to recruits (paging Jerrion Ealy).
Moral of the story is obvious. The years of inbreeding have truly fucked up the south's population.