Hall2012 wrote:So they're essentially saying he transferred twice (I guess he technically did) and thus needs to sit twice even though he never suited up for CSU?
ArmyVet wrote:Hall2012 wrote:So they're essentially saying he transferred twice (I guess he technically did) and thus needs to sit twice even though he never suited up for CSU?
Sounds that way, which is the rule. Did someone at SJU inform him that he wouldn't have to sit if he transferred there? Maybe the rule isn't fair, but it seems pretty clear as far as a rule goes that if you transfer you have to sit a year.
hoyahooligan wrote:Based on the facts we know and trying to give the NCAA the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps the initial evaluation has to be 100% by the rules and only on appeal can they use their common sense. By the letter of the law he's transferring from one school to another so by the law he has to sit out a year in residence. AKA a year at the school he hopes to play for. By the letter of the law the ruling is correct. But with common sense it seems horribly cruel to make a kid sit out another year and lose a year of eligibility.
That being said by the letter of the law the NCAA is just following their own rules and enforcing them appropriately. There's nothing in the rule that takes into account if the person played the year before or not as far as I know. Perhaps Dunn (and St. John's) should've done his homework better on the transfer rules and realized this was a legit possibility based on the rules. He probably would've been better going JUCO or DII/III.
Again common sense should prevail and hopefully on appeal he gets elligible.
Django wrote:HBO Real Sports has a great commentary by Bryant Gumbel this month on what Title IX really is : unpaid (and under educated) poor urban and southern kids playing a violent sport that makes billions to subsidize rich white kids sports like lacrosse and softball.
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