These idiots wouldn't know a good idea if it fell on them. What a total train wreck of an organization. http://www.al.com/auburnfootball/index.ssf/2015/03/ncaas_elimination_of_hardship.html So they Chang the rule AFTER the kid transfers and then tell him about it.
The rule change was approved a year ago. The Tulsa athletic dept didn't tell the family. Seems like they should bear the blame.
Three, maybe four years ago there was a kid that transferred to Pitt after playing at a directional school in Michigan. He was approved for immediate eligibility under the hardship waiver. Zeigler was the players name (only remember that because of the hot dogs ) and his hardship was his father being fired from the Michigan school. On the other hand there was a player who was denied his immediate eligibility when his brother and father died and he wanted to be closer to his mom: a B1G school if I recall correctly. Which situation defines a hardship? Daddy got fired? I assume most of you guys have followed stories like these; maybe not closely, but followed. Time and time again there's been decisions by the NCAA that weren't consistent. There certainly have been cases where the waiver option was abused. Common sense suggests the decisions shouldn't be that hard. History shows the NCAA's decision making isn't clear cut. If laying down a new rule eliminating cases where the waiver rule has been abused eliminates that abuse, is that a bad thing? I know the new rule seems, at least to a degree, draconian. These kids aren't losing any eligibility, just having to wait a year to fulfill theirs. In the end, I'm not sure this is such a bad rule.
Didn't Rick Majeris get slapped with sanctions for putting a player on a plane to go be with a dying parent?
I think he did. Dale Brown got a lot of heat because he paid for Lester Earl's mother's surgery. I don't know if there were any penalties but the NCAA assholes will hammer you for even a humanitarian act.
