Thought CW was in China?
The guys running ESPN probably never heard of Westbrook. While WBB is important to ESPN, relative to MCBB and NCAA Football WCBB is small $$ potatoes in ESPN's overall relationship with the NCAA.
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Shepard's parents have no idea why her waiver was granted.
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.”
Jess thinks being honest was the key.
I think that was just (because) we filled out the waiver the proper way and we were honest in everything that we did,” she said. “We had heard it was kind of a 50/50 deal. We knew we had gone about it the right way. We were just honest in the questions that they had asked, so whatever the result was we were going to be good with it.”
Honesty doesn't seem to be too high of a bar.
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.
Nice way to insure job security. 
Legal action against NCAA is OVERDUE !
There are actually several attorneys who specialize in transfer waiver requests. One such attorney recently took on the case of Justin Fields a top QB recruit at UGA who transferred to tOSU after experiencing several racially charged incidents at UGA. It appears that Fields waiver will be granted by the NCAA.
Shouldn’t you know the rules when your kid accepts the scholarship to matriculate for free?
There's ALWAYS a chance of a discrimination suit, most likely under Title VI. Whether or not it is successful is another thing as the NCAA has a slew of very pricey attorneys. The possible premise in this case would be that Shepherd and Westbrook were similarly-situated individuals and Westbrook received/experienced disparate treatment because of her protected class status, which I assume would be race/ethnicity/national origin... Because we don't know Shepherd's specifics, we don't know whether the two are similarly-situated and that Shepherd is a suitable comparator to Westbrook, but that's what the discovery process is all about..
Because Westbrook and Shepard are the same gender there is absolutely no aspect of Title IX that would apply. There will be no "discovery" the NCAA decisions are confidential.
If the NCAA can recover (if they had anything to recover from) for the NC decision. I think they would have no issues with anything they may choose to do. The Baylor FB team???
Your's were the answers I was searching for, one who KNOWS. Thanks Coco..
Please note that I said "Title VI" not a "Title IX" claim. And really a Title IX claim also is possible, even if the two comparators are same gendered--not likely--but possible. Additionally, a Title VI claim would not be under the auspices of the NCAA, but rather would be a federal case under the OCR (Office for Civil Rights) where the discovery process does occur.
LOL--I was thinking the same about you, as you were the one who first attempted to get legalistic, and unfortunately mischaracterized some legal concepts... Not so much an "aspiring" anything anymore, just more than two decades of being a Title IX officer...
Yes, you are correct there is an inconsistency for Football, MCBB and WCBB vs all other sports. However Beth “I talk almost as much as Adam Amin to avoid any dead air time” Mowins did mention new proposed rule changes to softball about transfers. Not sure what the changes are but do know the Oregon situation was bad when the coach left for Texas and 9 players (?) left as well, leaving a National Contender decimated.
Reading tchalla post regarding Title VI prompted me to go read it. Sure seems applicable, assuming UCONN gets federal money
Yea, @tchalla1 has already straightened me out on this. Still think any law suit under this situation is highly unlikely to come about and less likely to prevail. For starters the NCAA receives federal funds "indirectly" so applying title VI or IX against the NCAA as an institution is even harder.
Don't think UCONN would be the target here more likely the NCAA.