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Message: [QUOTE="Balker, post: 2396630, member: 6682"] In my mind, it's common sense that there should be no mandatory waiting periods that extend outside the semester in question. The entire rule is a bogus sham that contributes to my view of the NCAA as profiteering slave drivers who are shouting about "amateurism" and suppressing revenue potential of kids who grow up on the poverty line, while selling tickets to watch them play when they say they can depending on an set of outdated rules that are very one sided... So that's a tough question for me. But for the sake of argument, I'd say if the kid is enrolled during a particular semester, and elects to transfer to another university before the end of that semester, that should not result in a ban from playing sports the following semester at another university if there are circumstances outside those expected by the student at the time of their enrollment, either personal circumstances or ones created by the university. That said, I wasn't even talking about Wilson. There was no circumstance that was caused by St. John's that resulted in him asking for his release. So personally I'd view that as a situation that would be pretty iffy for a waiver. If I was deciding, based on the current rules, it would depend on what the student presented as his or her reason for needing to change schools. Obviously they are likely using past precedent like case law when considering waivers, but based on what I said previously, you can tell that I would be the guy that just threw that out the window and said it's time to start over and start acting sane. In this case, I was talking about Braxton Beverly's waiver denial. He committed to play for a head coach that was fired abruptly, two months before the start of the season. His denial seems wholly unreasonable by any metric. This decision essentially costs him one year of his income potential for his basketball career, whatever that might be, which could be quite a lot. Given the NCAA's shaky record in recent lawsuits brought by former players, could you really rule out him eventually getting a judgement in his favor for damages? [/QUOTE]

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