unipanther99 wrote:omahaben wrote:"Abused the transfer rules"?
Look, I understand UNI fans being bitter about losing what could turn out to be an all-american. But how exactly did anything about it fall within even a grey area of the rules, let alone abuse them?
Normally a player would have to sit out for a year when tranferring in-conference like this. Doug Elgin waived that requirement at the request of Creighton, with UNI's approval. If this involved other schools and there was no family or friendship involved, would that year have been waived? I kind of doubt it, but who knows.
Yeah, and if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle. The fact remains this did involve family, which is probably why the conference approved the waiver under the procedure set forth in the conference's by-laws...
unipanther99 wrote:valleychamp wrote:Actually, I believe for an in-conference transfer, you have to sit two years.
If it was a true "transfer," yes. But because Doug had not yet started school at UNI only the conference rule (and not the NCAA transfer rule) applied. At least that's the interpretation I heard.
The conference rule is stricter than the NCAA rule. "A student-athlete who has accepted or received an athletic scholarship award at a member institution of the MVC" shall not play for 2-years, unless the waiting period is waived (which is expressly allowed in a subsequent by-law).
The Letter of Intent language is more favorable, since there is no statutory waiting period to get out of a LOI once the release has been approved.
I guess the first question is whether or not Dougie ever signed the scholarship papers, thereby accepting the scholarship at UNI. Because if he hadn't, then there was no need to get a waiver once he was released from his LOI.
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