Another Departure

TheTastyGreek · August 17, 2009

From this morning's practice blog:

What the heck?

I thought the whole deal with Rich Young was that he DIDN'T get a waiver. He had a situation with his mother, we requested a waiver, and didn't get it. That's why we were docked for him, and that's why our score that year was 924. We were docked the point and penalized a scholarship, and we didn't get it back until the next year, by which time Young had finished up with school.

Looking it up... That's what happened. Young was denied his waiver, according to our director of compliance as quoted by Vito.

Simpson said UNT applied for a waiver from the NCAA because former guard Rich Young had to travel home to Pennsylvania multiple times during the 2006-07 season while his mother was sick. The NCAA denied UNT’s request that would have pushed its men’s basketball team well above the 925 mark.
Young will graduate this summer, which will help UNT’s score.

Young DIDN'T get a waiver. He had to finish up, then we were able to get a score revision after the fact.

Rudy · August 17, 2009

Dude is walking away from a full college scholarship to join the army? Why not wait until you graduate then join up? The army's biggest selling point to recruits is "hey, we'll help you pay for your college education." Barrett already had that taken care of. Doesn't make any sense.

Plus, if he goes in after graduating, he goes in as an officer.

KRAM1 · August 17, 2009

Plus, if he goes in after graduating, he goes in as an officer.

That is definitely not automatic...there are many college grads in all branches of the armed services that are not officers...some by choice, some not. He would have to be selected, upon his enlistment, for Officer's Candidate School first...and depending upon his major at graduation...he may or may not be selected. Just because you are a college grad does not guarantee that one goes to OCS.

Other routes to Officer status are ROTC and one of the Service Academies...West Point, Air Force Academy, Naval Academy, Kings Point and/or Coast Guard Academy. Another way is to enlist, serve a few years in the enlisted ranks and then apply for OCS...after, of course obtaining that college degree. In this case, your major is not that big of a deal. There may be other ways to officer ranks, but those are the ones I can think of at this moment...I went the AFROTC route while in grad school at Okla. State U.

I wish him all the best...God speed and good luck.

Edited August 17, 2009 by KRAM1