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HatcherTiger Freedom Isn't Free

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Ole Miss would be a fool to play a NCAA ineligible player. They could end up forfeiting any game they play him in. They will NOT be impressed by a local judge trying to interfere and Ole Miss does NOT need to be on the NCAA chit list. Those NCAA bastards are vindictive. They can find something and make it stick to any school. Remember Dale Brown and Tarkanian or Alabama football for that matter. The NCAA was determined to get them and eventually they got all three.
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I think Ole Miss should go for it. Whats the downside of forfeiting a whole bunch of losses anyway !

HatcherTiger, Aug 31, 2006

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Can't agree. College baseball is better than ever, year after year. Many good ones go to MLB. Can't blame 'em. But the game is good and will be good.

If there were minor league football, and there won't be because the NFL owners know they've got a minor league system now that costs them nothing, you probably would lose some marquis (dummy) players but I don't see it as a big time hit to the quality of college football. Just don't see it.
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Can't say I agree. Let's pretend that you take away the minor league and make college baseball MLB's "minor league." It would increase the talent level 5 fold.

LSU baseball is great and everyone has a great time, but 98% of the general public has absolutely 0 clue about college baseball (including me).

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We also would have had all of our best signees playing in the Box instead of playing in Sioux Falls and places like that.

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More info on this added at the Clarion Ledger site:

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060831/SPORTS030103/60831030

Shirley Powe said in the documents that as a single mother who worked to support her family she was not able to help her son with his homework.

“I didn’t know until he was almost finished (with high school) he wasn’t getting the education he should have gotten,” Shirley Powe said in court papers. “Coach Boyles and Mr. Crager helped him at least get enough schooling to be able to go to college.
“Jerrell really is a good child but he just can’t read. Please give him this chance to attend Ole Miss.”
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marcmc99, Aug 31, 2006

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red55 said: ↑

Ole Miss would be a fool to play a NCAA ineligible player. They could end up forfeiting any game they play him in. They will NOT be impressed by a local judge trying to interfere and Ole Miss does NOT need to be on the NCAA chit list. Those NCAA bastards are vindictive. They can find something and make it stick to any school. Remember Dale Brown and Tarkanian or Alabama football for that matter. The NCAA was determined to get them and eventually they got all three.
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If I'm not mistaken they sued Ole Miss along with the NCAA and the clearinghouse in particular, taking the decision out of OM's hands as far as having to admit him. But your right, I'd keep him off the practice field until ordered to let him play.

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“Jerrell really is a good child but he just can’t read. Please give him this chance to attend Ole Miss.”
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Jerrell is probably a really good player, too, but if he can't read, he can't go to college, Mrs. Powe. I see semi-pro football in his future, maybe a shot at Arena football with a change of catching an NFL scouts eye.

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He does have the chance to attend Ole Piss. NCAA just won't let him on the practice field to play this season.

LSUGraduate2002, Sep 1, 2006

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LSUGraduate2002 said: ↑

He does have the chance to attend Ole Piss. NCAA just won't let him on the practice field to play this season.
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I don't see your point. Looking at the situation, he will probably never attend college. He can't read. It's not like he just didn't try in High School, it's obvious he has issues that go beyond playing football.

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It is in regards to this quote by his mother
"“I didn’t know until he was almost finished (with high school) he wasn’t getting the education he should have gotten,” Shirley Powe said in court papers. “Coach Boyles and Mr. Crager helped him at least get enough schooling to be able to go to college.
“Jerrell really is a good child but he just can’t read. Please give him this chance to attend Ole Miss.”

Yes, she admits that he can't read. However, the clearinghouse was the one that chose to not allow Powe to play. I don't think Ole Miss declined his application.

LSUGraduate2002, Sep 1, 2006

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More on the soap opera that never seems to end. Personally, I think they should file suit to get the kid into Harvard. Might as well go for broke, after all, it doesn't have anything to do with football, it's all about getting this guy an education.......well, maybe not. Looks like the last quote below sums it all up.

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OXFORD — The teacher who tutored star University of Mississippi football recruit Jerrell Powe said the work she did was legitimate and that she is mad at the NCAA for believing otherwise.
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But Crager believes it will center on her role in tutoring Powe, which began in January 2005, two months after Powe's All-State career at Wayne County ended.

"There was no cheating," Crager said. "There was no too much. There is never too much with a child in school."

Crager said she met with Powe after Wayne County football coach Marcus Boyles asked her to help the defensive tackle earn enough credits to go to college. Crager said she suggested a variety of online courses through the independent studies program at Brigham Young University in Utah.
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Alvin Smith, supervising principal at Wayne County High School, confirmed that Powe took special education classes, but he said Powe wasn't passed through the school system because he was a great football player.

He said Powe did not graduate with a diploma, which would require passing state competency exams, but with a certificate, which does not require the exams.
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Although Carroll has said Powe suffers from dyslexia, a reading disability, Crager said Powe is not dyslexic and is able to comprehend work with help.

She said she would read passages and ask questions, while Powe provided answers by pointing at them or underlining them. During lessons that required writing, Crager said Powe would provide answers and she would jot them down because "you cannot read his handwriting."
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Powe completed 14 BYU online courses - worth one-half credit each - from April 2005 to May 2006. He earned four A's, nine B's and one C, according to a transcript included in court documents.
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"I would like to have him by myself for one year and he would be able to read as well as anybody, but it's too late," Crager said. "He needs to go on to college. ... I just want him to have a chance. If he does not get this chance, he will never get to go. He will end up washing cars in Waynesboro and his talent that God gave him will be wasted."
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marcmc99, Sep 14, 2006

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