Can someone explain to me how a kid can be outright dismissed from a program for the usual unspecified violation of team rules and the school still impose control over where he can transfer?
Clearly, Mark Richt has lost control over the dismissal rules.
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Bet Auburn hopes this doesn’t become SOP. Honestly I have very limited sympathy for the student athlete here. Best solution would be for the student to agree to the rules he broke to be specified by the school and the school to agree to let him transfer where ever he wishes. Open honesty on both sides. Never gonna happen.
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You honestly think nobody does any due diligence in this situation?
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I honestly don’t know.
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“on many sides…”
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Well, it’s for the kids.
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Please tell me you saw this in the next story down the feed at NBC…
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Do you think this would have happened if the kid had been a five star coming out of HS and had legitimate NFL prospects? Just guessing but, he might have folks lining up to represent him in a suit against the university and the NCAA. Any thoughts?
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You mean a player like Isaiah Crowell?
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Your memory may be better than mine but I don’t recall we put any restrictions on where he could transfer.
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I’m sorry it makes perfect sense to me to restrict a player’s ability to transfer to a school your going to be playing the next season. Having a player on your roster that has an intimate and working knowledge of the oppositions playbook does seem like a competitive advantage that a school ought to be able to protect its self against. Generally I agree with letting kid come and go for better opportunities , just like Coaches, but common sense says backdoor stealing of the oppositions playbook should not be encouraged.
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Doesn’t seem to have stopped UT from hiring former Georgia coaches… also, if you’ve kicked a kid off the team, why do you still get to control his future?
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Unsatisfied with your playing time? Tell the coach to kiss your ass….get kicked off team….transfer to a conference rival who needed you more. Nobody else has thought of this?
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And? I’m failing to see the quandry here.
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Good for you
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I’m asking a serious question. If you think it’s an obvious answer you haven’t really thought it through very well.
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Would you want to take a kid like that for your program?
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Hang on a minute. The caller on Line 1 from Toomer’s drugstore wants to know if he can play qb.
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So, I guess Tennessee doesn’t play Bama this year?
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Because we’re all about the man these days. Fuck the little guy. Individual rights are insignificant next to the priorities of the machine. ‘Muricuh.
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I’m guessing “outright dismissed” does not also mean “released from scholarship”. That would seem to imply that they still own his butt and can place those restrictions.
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If you dismiss a kid you should not control his future.
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Really, GA State James Madison and Marshall….is NC STATE really worried about those schools. Very small minded thinking, IMHO…
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Does not even qualify for “small”.
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