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Message: [QUOTE="Phil, post: 2495589, member: 66"] When I heard Shepard was given the waiver, I assumed it had something to do with issues at Nebraska not Notre Dame (I do realize that the timing suggested that may not of been the case, but I naïvely found it hard to believe that Notre Dame would be given special preference). Do we know if the report of the claims it was because they only had seven healthy players knows this for sure? I could be open to some sympathy if a team had the full complement of 15 players on the roster and due to some freakish circumstances had eight injured players and were down to only seven active players. Seven is enough, although not much room for error so I'm not even sure that I would find that compelling but I'd be open to some sympathy. However, that's not the case. I believe Notre Dame has only 13 players on the roster so they've chosen to go with two few than permitted. That's something Geno typically does but that's a coaches decision, and if it doesn't work out due to injuries is the NCAA supposed to bail them out? In addition, I see 11 Notre Dame players who have appeared in a game this year. Obviously, one a Shepherd but that leaves 10 players who managed to play. If there were only seven players healthy at the time of the decision it means some of those injury issues were short-term in nature. I believe one was Westbeld who's managed to play in 12 of the 13 games and start seven. Did several players miraculously recover? Graduate students such as Lili Thompson can play immediately. Were there no graduate students with eligibility left the country? I understand that probably weren't any with Shepherd skills but that's shouldn't be the issue. I'm open to hearing that I'm missing something but so far this sounds fishy. [/QUOTE]

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