Westbrook waiver denied

[JordyG]

It's UConn. Get back to me the day Geno has a transfer waiver approved. However the very bright side is Evina gets to recover fully from her knee surgery for next year, and this team will really be loaded. Keep your chin up young lady, it's certainly NOT the end of the world, just a beginning.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Mark Shepard said. “When we looked at it, about 50 percent of the applications got approved and you have to go through multiple appeals to make it happen. She fully anticipated she would have to sit out for a year.”

When we looked at it, about 50 percent of the applications got approved and you have to go through multiple appeals to make it happen.


That's a general statement about his view of the process beforehand; it's not a claim that his daughter appealed a denied request.

 

[Plebe]

It's UConn. Get back to me the day Geno has a transfer waiver approved.

Has he applied for a waiver in the past? I can't think of one (but then again I'm not a good historian). Pretty sure he didn't seek the waiver for Butler or for Stevens, for example.

 

[CocoHusky]

When we looked at it, about 50 percent of the applications got approved and you have to go through multiple appeals to make it happen.


That's a general statement about his view of the process beforehand; it's not a claim that his daughter appealed a denied request.

"50% of the applications got approved" is a general statement about the process beforehand? Come on!

 

[soxfan23]

Wait a minute, we had to wait till November to find out that the waiver was denied. I’m still trying to figure out how Shepard gets granted a waiver with no immediate coaching change, but Westbrook can’t???

For the umpteenth time, coaching changes applies ONLY to INCOMING freshman! Not trying to be snarky, this just comes up a lot on this board. The reason ND and Shepard received a waiver is because ND is the NCAA's darling, they are the #1 draw in CFB and generate hundreds of millions of dollars, Also, Mark Emmert hates UConn and there is a long and nasty history between the two.

 

[soxfan23]

Is anyone aware if Azura Stevens case was appealed ?

She never applied.

 

[soxfan23]

Te'a Cooper was denied her waiver to SC and her appeal was denied as well . The whole bad treatment at UT is false news. She dug her own grave with her comments during the NCAA tourney. No player should ever voice there opinion on that stage even if they are 100% factually correct.

What grave did she dig?

 

[CocoHusky]

For the umpteenth time, coaching changes ONLY to INCOMING freshman! Not trying to be snarky, this just comes up a lot on this board. The reason ND and Shepard received a waiver is because ND is the NCAA's darling, they are the #1 draw in CFB and generate hundreds of millions of dollars.

You are doing a piss poor job of controlling the snark with those last two sentences of pure innuendo.
Kind of like:

 

[Sluconn Husky]

"50% of the applications got approved" is a general statement about the process beforehand? Come on!

Sure it is, but I don't see what that has to do with whether or not she was denied.

It won't be hard to find umpteen pieces of news on the NCAA denying Westbrook forcing UConn to appeal. Try finding one piece reporting Shepard was denied and ND had to appeal.

 

[DaBball]

It said Shephard’s appeal was successful. The way I took it, and I’m guessing @uconnell did as well, was that for an appeal to be successful a waiver has to be denied and then an appeal made, but I’m likely comprehending it incorrectly.

 

[bantamlaker]

Te'a Cooper was denied her waiver to SC and her appeal was denied as well . The whole bad treatment at UT is false news. She dug her own grave with her comments during the NCAA tourney. No player should ever voice there opinion on that stage even if they are 100% factually correct.

Great initial post According to athletic director Benedict UConn provided more than 100 pages of supporting material and you have enough inside information to call it fake news.

 

[uconnell]

Jessica Shepard pulls off the transfer — and transformation — at Notre Dame

Notre Dame's Jessica Shepard pulls off a rare double — transfer and transformation — as she eyes another on Championship Sunday.

www.indystar.com

To this day, Shepard’s parents have no idea why her appeal was successful. That same fall, for instance, Navy transfer Alohi Gilman was told he’d have to sit out a year before playing football for the Irish.

“Nobody seems to really know what the deal is there,” Mark Shepard said. “When we looked at it, about 50 percent of the applications got approved and you have to go through multiple appeals to make it happen. She fully anticipated she would have to sit out for a year.”

Thanks for posting this. Da Ball. I was starting to doubt my memory. not.

 

[uconnell]

It said Shephard’s appeal was successful. The way I took it, and I’m guessing @uconnell did as well, was that for an appeal to be successful a waiver has to be denied and then an appeal made, but I’m likely comprehending it incorrectly.

No you are not.

 

[Biff]

Thanks for posting this. Da Ball. I was starting to doubt my memory. not.

I'm curious as to what you think this article is saying to prove your position?

 

[Kaizen]

UConn's Geno Auriemma on Evina Westbrook Transfer Waiver Denial

 

[southofnorth]

Te'a Cooper was denied her waiver to SC and her appeal was denied as well . The whole bad treatment at UT is false news. She dug her own grave with her comments during the NCAA tourney. No player should ever voice there opinion on that stage even if they are 100% factually correct.

I sincerely hope you are never in a position of power. There might have been a more tactful way to say what she said, but nobody should ever have to suffer in silence regardless of if they’re a student athlete or not. If Holly can say she needed more out of her players why can’t Evina say she needed more from the staff she played for?

 

[Sluconn Husky]

It said Shephard’s appeal was successful. The way I took it, and I’m guessing @uconnell did as well, was that for an appeal to be successful a waiver has to be denied and then an appeal made, but I’m likely comprehending it incorrectly.

I think that's verb appeal like UConn just appealed for a waiver, not noun appeal as in a formal request to overturn the original decision.

 

[Nash83]

Te'a Cooper was denied her waiver to SC and her appeal was denied as well . The whole bad treatment at UT is false news. She dug her own grave with her comments during the NCAA tourney. No player should ever voice there opinion on that stage even if they are 100% factually correct.

Phillip Fulmer Holly Warlick, is that you?

 

[Magy Cannon]

Because we are not ND, the appeal will be denied because that would mean that the NCAA made a mistake in their initial "waiver request denied" decision and I don't think that anyone in the NCAA is capable of doing that.

A different group will rule on the appeal.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Jay Bilas has some thoughts:

 

[Sluconn Husky]

 

[DaBball]

To ruin a bad day:

 

[Sluconn Husky]

A lawyer and former NCAA administrator:

 

[oldude]

Someone else may have already made this point, but according to Geno, if UConn files their appeal by Tuesday they expect an answer from the NCAA by Wednesday.

Dum spiro spero
(While I breath I hope)

 

[Sluconn Husky]

To ruin a bad day:

"I would like to thank the NCAA and the players' previous schools for their help with making it possible for these young ladies to be able to play right away," head coach Bernard Scott said.

 

[Carnac]

Not the news I was hoping for. I never had a good feeling about this. I wonder how the TN faithful are receiving this news?

 

[PAHuskeyFan]

Hoping for positive response to the Appeal...

BUT, if not, let's hope this is the only disappointment our UCONN WBB Team receives this Season... all the way to April!

GO HUSKIES!!!!

 

[oldude]

Not the news I was hoping for. I never had a good feeling about this. I wonder how the TN faithful are receiving this news?

So far VolNation is relatively supportive of Evina with a couple exceptions. One thing both LV and Husky fans appear to agree on is that the NCAA is inconsistent and arbitrary in their application of waiver requests.

 

[BobbyJ]

If this holds, I feel terrible for Evina. Sitting on the bench in street clothes and being a practice player can’t be what she had in mind when she decided to transfer.

Unless she thought she had an ironclad case for a waiver, it's what she should have expected.

 

[oldude]

Unless she thought she had an ironclad case for a waiver, it's what she should have expected.

Why? If we’ve seen anything from the NCAA relative to waiver requests it is that no one knows what to expect. While I certainly don’t know the details of Evina’s waiver request, clearly Geno and Dick Benedict didn’t expect this decision.