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Message: [QUOTE="southie, post: 4495124, member: 2527"] Just catching up on this Edwards story. I must have missed it after Edwards transferred to Baylor, but I don't recall anyone ever publicly stating that Baylor understood Edwards would not be immediately eligible as she was not a grad-transfer. Was it out there? When Edwards started out the season on the bench (or in the stands?) in street clothes, I just don't recall Collen saying anything other than Edwards was "working hard (to become eligible)". So, Baylor was definitely not transparent with the expectation of her being eligible to play this season. I guess I don't understand the rules at all. I thought the "one-time transfer" rule applied to an SA who had not already been granted immediately eligibility upon their first transfer. So, after Edwards transferred from Utah to Kentucky, she sat out a year (as that was before the one-time transfer rule even existed). She never used the one-time transfer exemption. Conversely, when Aliyah Matharu transferred from MSU to Texas after the 2020-21 season, she was granted immediate eligibility; but, upon transferring a second time one year later to Florida (again as an undergrad-transfer), she is having to sit out this season. As for Edwards, she spent one year at Utah, and 3 years at Kentucky, right? I get that not all players graduate in 4 years. If she had to earn 33 credit hours at Baylor in summer sessions and Fall semester, how far off was she from graduating from Kentucky? I was thinking perhaps she should have stayed at Kentucky through the summer to complete her undergraduate degree (like Shaylee Gonzales did at BYU for officially enrolling at Texas for the Fall). Perhaps she didn't meet academic requirements that allowed her to remain in good academic standing (accumulated enough credit hours to be classified as a senior), or a lot of her credits did not transfer from Kentucky to Baylor. I personally don't think Edwards will stay at Baylor another year instead of going pro. Plus, the NCAA has a rule that you get 5 years to complete 4 seasons of play. She will have been in college 5 years already and having sat out two seasons without playing; you only get to non-medically redshirt once (other than the COVID season). Sounds like Baylor would have to get a waiver from the NCAA for her to be able to play next season. Even players who take a non-medical redshirt season and a medical redshirt season have to apply for a waiver for that 6th season. [/QUOTE]

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