Basketball Coaches (vindictive) Gone Wild Again...

In other words, "The program the athlete leaves seldom acts like petty vindictive assholes, but when they do we're obligated to support them, even if they don't have a leg to stand on, because the best interests of the student-athlete are always the last things the NCAA actually cares about."

That Bamer should have teabagged Phil Martelli.

 

Extremely rare? It happens all the time.

Kid wants to transfer, school gives him a list of places he can't transfer to. Only in St. Joe's case, the list is everybody.

How about this? It shouldn't fucking matter if the school is against the transfer or not. Last I checked, the school isn't the kid's parents.

 

"O'Brien said he will meet with his attorney, Don Jackson of Montgomery, Ala., and decide if there is another course for legal action."

Sue the fucking ass out of St. Joe's and the NCAA for collusion and restraint of trade. Then watch them back down, like Kentucky and the NCAA did with Marvin Stone.

 

Yeah, and win just in time for postseason, which UAB won't sniff.

 

Or, take some more classes next season and play for them then.

 

I think he would be ineligible next year because his NCAA clock started in 07-08 and he has five years to complete four years of eligibility. Of course, it's a catch-22 because he couldn't play for one of those years because of the NCAA ruling he's appealing.

 

Theoretically he could go to a D-II and not worry about the "clock."

 

... where he would average 7 points and 9 rebounds in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.

 

Seems like to win a lawsuit he would have to be able to show damages. But if he's getting the education, wouldn't be making money playing basketball anyway and has no legitimate hopes of going pro, I don't know how he would do that.

 

He could attempt to claim that being deprived of his fourth year of playing would deprive him a chance to land a contract in Europe (there are many little countries that sign Americans), and also claim that, by not being visible on the court, they are depriving him of networking opportunities with people in the UAB community.

It's a long shot, I know. More likely, he'd be better off trying to get a judge to issue an injunction preventing the NCAA from stopping him from suiting up for UAB. Then you'd get into the NCAA threatening UAB with sanctions for playing a guy they say is ineligible, and so on.

 

Bumping this thread up: It was Wisconsin's and Bo Ryan's turn at Coaches Gone Wild. Kid wanted to transfer. There was some sort of alleged mixup in the transfer papers, or Ryan's just trying to cover his ass. Kid was restricted from 25 schools, including all ACC schools, plus a few others until the kid went to the media.

Ryan went on Mike and Mike, basically whined that he was being picked on for following the rule that every other coach follows, even though the rule is flat-out arcane and unfair. After being ripped on for three days, Wisconsin and Ryan relented, and the kid can transfer to any school outside the Big 10 (which still isn't really unfair).

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7833426/jarrod-uthoff-wisconsin-badgers-lift-transfer-restrictions-big-ten

 

Another bump: Uthoff will be tranferring to Iowa, but will be paying his own way for a year:

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/8018874/jarrod-uthoff-transferring-wisconsin-badgers-iowa-hawkeyes

Still a load of BS that the kid and his family have to dip into their own pockets. Coaches jump ship all the time. Why can't players? This is America after all.