Sid Wilson has no shot at a waiver

[uconnfan68]

Kid (NC State) should be playing this year for sure, this unfortunately has Emmert's fingerprints all over it. This guy and his team make up rules as they go along, needs to be stopped.

And they did the opposite for a Notre Dame wbb player. Just going to let her play, because she wrote a personal letter. Just mind-boggling hypocrisy.

 

[Leebo]

No one here knows the circumstances of the ND player, so it makes no sense to judge it.

 

[whaler11]

They are considered different sports, but this is where the NCAA trips on itself.

There’s no announced reason why the waiver is granted and if we assume that it’s something pretty substantial, why did it take until November 1st to approve it?

The NCAA is the Cleveland Browns.



That is exactly what they should do - state that there is no waiver. Instant fairness across the board.

More like consistent unfairness. But at least more consistent.

 

[BUConn10]

Am I the only one who is not outraged by this? This isn't a new rule, this is how it has always been, and it's a rule to protect the hard work and resources a staff puts in to win a player's trust and commitment.

Like it or not, we seem to forget college athletes are real people many times, and real people often face unfair consequences for decisions they make. College students, even non athletes, can't just drop out of a program and enroll in another school overnight in August after courses have started with a team of highly paid specialists taking care of all the details for them, so why should that same student who happens to play a sport be given that privilege? Yea, Sid made a poor decision on schools the first time around, and he will learn from that mistake, but there is no "grossly unfair NCAA" finger pointing here. He made a hasty decision like we all have, and he will pay the mild inconvenience of a fee for said mistake like almost all the players who transferred before him.