J. Masoli Immediately Eligible For Ole Miss

[Mean Green 93-98]

"the waiver exists to provide relief to student-athletes who transfer for academic reasons to pursue graduate studies, not to avoid disciplinary measures at the previous university." Caveat: Unless you transfer to a school in a major conference.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/13874724/masoli-eligible-can-play-for-ole-miss-immediately

[DeepGreen]

More BCS AQ Conference Bias?

No doubt in my mind. This bias is getting blatant.

[PlummMeanGreen]

That is a biased, less than sensitive crock for them to do this and hang our guys in our bowl division out to dry without a hearing.

GMG!

[CaribbeanGreen]

wait - I always thought this was okay if you transferred with an undergraduate degree in hand to a school that offered a graduate program your original school did not. No? Bias? BCS? #dbg?

[El Paso Eagle]

wait - I always thought this was okay if you transferred with an undergraduate degree in hand to a school that offered a graduate program your original school did not. No? Bias? BCS? #dbg?

Agree. It looks like he found a way around the suspension (good ole’ loopholes) and some did not want him to get away with it, but when it was reviewed, like him or not, the rules, if not the intent, were followed.

[Mean Green 93-98]

wait - I always thought this was okay if you transferred with an undergraduate degree in hand to a school that offered a graduate program your original school did not. No? Bias? BCS? #dbg?

Yes, that is generally true. But under the circumstances, allowing him to transfer and begin play immediately is absolutely nuts. That is why the NCAA ruled against granting him immediate eligibility. The NCAA had every right to deny him the waiver.

According to NCAA rules, created by member schools, football graduate student-athletes must receive a waiver in order to compete if they enroll at a university other than where they received their undergraduate degree.

There is no guarantee of a waiver for anybody, much less convicted criminals under suspension by their previous university. If Masoli had transferred to a Sun Belt school, I am HIGHLY skeptical that he would play immediately.

[Graddean]

The NCAA likely avoided a lawsuit which they very well could have lost. Unless the rule stipulated you had to be eligible to return to your original school, he met the rules. He had his undergraduate degree in hand. He enrolled in a graduate program the original school did not offer. These have been the only conditions generally stated. According to what I heard, Masoli met the letter but not the spirit of the rules. Judges have not been too lenient with universities that added conditions to the rules after the fact.