Bad news for Memphis/AAC
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Getting popcorn for this...
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Bad for the conference but I'm glad we won't be seeing him against us
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There's something I don't understand about how 'releases' work. I don't understand how the school can refuse to let him leave and go to school elsewhere.
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Where's our memphis buddy to clear this up?
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I'm with you on this. If he doesn't want to play, what does Memphis have to gain by keeping him?
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I like that this is the picture with the aricle:
Didn't Phil Martelli do this some kid a while back?
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If a school does not release a scholarship athlete that athlete cannot accept a scholarship at another school, he would need to pay his own way if enrolled. The flipside of this is the school that he left cannot use that scholarship until they release the kid (so taking a hardline is not always easy to do). Also, the clock won't start on the year the kid needs to sit out until the scholarship has been released (basically the school can tie the kid up for an additional year).
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It's just another messed up rule by the NCAA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/s...mit-athletes-options.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
"Coaches cannot fully prevent athletes like Lunt from transferring to any university they want. But if a coach does not grant an athlete a release, the player must forfeit any scholarship opportunity, pay his own way to the new university and sit out the next season"
Basically once you sign a letter of intent you are bound to the whim of the coach at the school. No matter what the rule says, this is going to look really bad for Memphis.
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Martelli's was even worse. That was a grad transfer who barely played. He wouldn't let the kid play at his new school out of spite. Phil Martelli is a garbage person.
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Yeah was so many leaving or ineligible? Sounds like there is some trouble brewing.
Heads could be flying soon!
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Hate to say it but Pastner danced with the devil and it may cost him his job. He took talent with baggage that other programs didn't want (i.e. Iverson and Woodson) and hired the dad of a few good recruits as a coach on his staff to land their commitments. I can't imagine that went over well in the locker room. When you add in the lack of tournament success the writing is on the wall.
Based on what is known so far about this situation, I am 100% on Memphis' side. You are free to transfer in April and May, but to try to transfer in late June/July when you are not only fully expected to be part of the team the following season but when the team has basically no chance to replace you is just wrong.
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