So, the transfer rule gives a player more eligibility. Do NCAA rules only have to benefit NCAA institutions? Would it be ok to benefit a student occasionally?
Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI, SFR Real Estate Broker Bob Parks, LLC 145 Maple Row Blvd Hendersonville TN 37075 Mobile: 615-972-4239 Office: 615-826-4040 Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Woody Bass <[email protected]> > Date: May 31, 2014 at 8:39:24 AM CDT > To: WXIA <[email protected]> > Subject: [gatornews] Orlando Sentinel - UF president Bernie Machen opposes > graduate student transfers > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > http://touch.orlandosentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80360390/ > > UF president Bernie Machen opposes graduate student transfers > > By Edgar Thompson | UF Swamp Things, Orlando Sentinel > > The Florida Gators welcomed high-profile transfers Jake McGee and Jon Horford > with open arms this spring. > > It does not take a rocket scientist to see why. > > McGee should give the Gators the playmaking tight end the team lacked during > a miserable 2013 season. Meanwhile, the 6-foot-10 Horford provides an > inexperienced inside player for a squad facing questions under the basket. > > But school president Bernie Machen is not so sure either athlete should be > allowed to be Gators. > > McGee and Horford are fifth-year seniors enrolled as graduate students at UF > after receiving degrees this past spring from two of the nation's top > universities. > > "If they really wanted to transfer somewhere else, they should sit out a > year,” Machen said Friday at the SEC spring meetings. “Why didn't Horford > stay at Michigan another year? Because he had a free pass." > > NCAA rules allow athletes who graduate to transfer and play immediately at > schools that offer an academic program their old school does not. Normal NCAA > rules require transfers to sit out a season. > > Machen is a lone voice in the wilderness. > > On Friday, the SEC eased the restrictions on graduate student transfers > without questionable pasts. > > In 2011, the league voted against allowing athletes to transfer to play > immediately unless they had two seasons of eligibility remaining. Graduate > student transfers would have to endure a stringent waiver process, but the > SEC decided to remove the requirement as long as the athlete did not have > disciplinary or eligibility issues at his previous school. > > "I think if somebody has already graduated college, they've already proven > they're good, quality people, and if you do more background checking, I'd be > supportive of it,” South Carolina president Harris Pastides told reporters. > > Machen, though, said it does not take a college degree to see what really is > going on. > > "Go to grad school at Michigan," Machen said of Horford. "They have some > pretty good grad schools. It's really just a way for a school to fill a void > at the very last minute or a player going to get more playing time without > having to sit out.” > > Email Edgar Thompson at [email protected]. Read the Swamp Things > blog at www.orlandosentinel.com/swampthings. Follow our UF coverage on > Twitter @osgators. > > > > > > Woody (via iPhone) > -- > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorNews" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
