Pathetic - Miami TE granted 9th (yes 9th) year of eligibility

[El Paso Eagle]

It seems the stupidity never ends..............

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2024/01/former-oregon-tight-end-cam-mccormick-returning-to-miami-for-unprecedented-9th-season-of-college-football.html

[97and03]

[MeanGreenTexan]

[NM Green]

Roadrunner alert.🚨 

[GoGreenBeans]

How long until this topic is moved to The Eagles Nest? Any bet takers

[Rudy]

34 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

Then watch him get a medical redshirt when he gets injured at 80 years old...

[Big Z]

 

[golfingomez]

I just see these stories and all i can think is... what's the point?

[Monkeypox]

Let's just re-cap this guy's situation.

He tore his ACL senior year of high school and spent his redshirt freshman year recovering from it.

After his recovery, he was one of the group of Oregon football players who was hospitalized from rhabdomyolysis following their workouts. It can lead to permanent/longterm disability or death.

He played in 2017, then broke his ankle in the 2018 opener. It required 3 surgeries and he missed most of 2018-2021 because of it. 

After his return in 2021, he tore his achilles tendon.

He's gotten his Bachelor's and Master's from Oregon, and is donating money to a football team at a school for the deaf, as he suffers from an auditory processing disorder.

Miami seems totally fine with him playing. The NCAA seems totally fine with him playing. He wants to play. He had been granted two extra years prior to the pandemic and the achilles injury.

And THIS is the situation people are bitching about?

 

 

 

[greenjoe]

But, as soon as he starts drawing Social Security or begins receiving proceeds from his pension fund ( NIL) he must retire from football.

[GMoney]

You know that one guy in the club that's just a little too old to be in the club?

[Cr1028]

6 hours ago, Monkeypox said:

Let's just re-cap this guy's situation.

He tore his ACL senior year of high school and spent his redshirt freshman year recovering from it.

After his recovery, he was one of the group of Oregon football players who was hospitalized from rhabdomyolysis following their workouts. It can lead to permanent/longterm disability or death.

He played in 2017, then broke his ankle in the 2018 opener. It required 3 surgeries and he missed most of 2018-2021 because of it. 

After his return in 2021, he tore his achilles tendon.

He's gotten his Bachelor's and Master's from Oregon, and is donating money to a football team at a school for the deaf, as he suffers from an auditory processing disorder.

Miami seems totally fine with him playing. The NCAA seems totally fine with him playing. He wants to play. He had been granted two extra years prior to the pandemic and the achilles injury.

And THIS is the situation people are bitching about?

This is what I take issue with. He spent 13 or 14 (enrolled in March) semesters at Oregon and has a bachelor’s and master’s. He is now beginning his 3rd semester at Miami which will be either his 16th or 17th semester in college. At what point does he cease being a student athlete? Multiple masters? PhD?

[Monkeypox]

1 hour ago, Cr1028 said:

This is what I take issue with. He spent 13 or 14 (enrolled in March) semesters at Oregon and has a bachelor’s and master’s. He is now beginning his 3rd semester at Miami which will be either his 16th or 17th semester in college. At what point does he cease being a student athlete? Multiple masters? PhD?

When he exhausts his eligibility or runs out of classes to take, I guess.  I just don’t know why in this particular situation I should be up in arms about it. This guys spent more than half of his college years rehabbing injuries, all while getting an education. It’s not like he’s played 9 years of games somehow. 
 

There are plenty of kids who are putting zero effort into classes and getting paid to be loosely associated with the colleges at which they are theoretically enrolled. I understand people hating that part of the system.  

[golfingomez]

21 hours ago, GMoney said:

You know that one guy in the club that's just a little too old to be in the club?

Hi guys!

[NT80]

46 minutes ago, golfingomez said:

Hi guys!

Aune had a career (minor league baseball) before opting back into college football.  

That's different than a guy not wanting to work and join the real world.

 

[southsideguy]

if you are hurt that often you should probably retire from football and work on your career

[GrandGreen]

23 hours ago, Monkeypox said:

Let's just re-cap this guy's situation.

He tore his ACL senior year of high school and spent his redshirt freshman year recovering from it.

After his recovery, he was one of the group of Oregon football players who was hospitalized from rhabdomyolysis following their workouts. It can lead to permanent/longterm disability or death.

He played in 2017, then broke his ankle in the 2018 opener. It required 3 surgeries and he missed most of 2018-2021 because of it. 

After his return in 2021, he tore his achilles tendon.

He's gotten his Bachelor's and Master's from Oregon, and is donating money to a football team at a school for the deaf, as he suffers from an auditory processing disorder.

Miami seems totally fine with him playing. The NCAA seems totally fine with him playing. He wants to play. He had been granted two extra years prior to the pandemic and the achilles injury.

And THIS is the situation people are bitching about?

 

 

 

No, this is not the situation most are complaining about.  They would have no way of knowing his background unless they researched it like you did. 

The facts are that thousands of football players have been injured and did not get a do-over and had their collegian football careers substantially shortened. 

This guy deserves a lot of credit for his perseverance, but there should be limits on player's eligibility. This type of rationale opens the door to a lot of questionable maneuvering to abuse eligibility requirements. 

[Monkeypox]

5 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

No, this is not the situation most are complaining about.  They would have no way of knowing his background unless they researched it like you did. 

The research I did was reading the article posted.

[All About UNT]

[rcade]

On 1/19/2024 at 4:22 PM, GrandGreen said:

This guy deserves a lot of credit for his perseverance, but there should be limits on player's eligibility.

There is a limit: nine years.

Some of y'all would have booed when Notre Dame put Rudy in the game.

[jtm0097]

20 minutes ago, rcade said:

 

Some of y'all would have booed when Notre Dame put Rudy in the game.

Rudy was offsides