NCAA Waivers

CU’s Josh Ford Denied Sixth Year

Kyle Ringo of BuffZone.com: Colorado football coach Mike MacIntyre said running back Josh Ford’s appeal to the NCAA for a sixth season of eligibility has been denied, ending his college career. From his bio on Colorado’s website, Ford is just listed as redshirting in 2010, his first season at Colorado. He also did not play […]

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Winter Storm in Atlanta Prompts Questions of NCAA Waivers

The frenzy of football recruiting in the run-up to signing day combined with the winter storm in Atlanta to cause the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Michael Carvell to muse about what the NCAA might have done in a couple hypothetical situations: If Richt had stayed overnight, would it have been an NCAA violation? Yes, it’s an NCAA […]

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America East Seeking Waiver for Scheduling Issue

  A temporary waiver to absolve the University of Vermont men’s basketball team, as well as other programs across the country, of a schedule issue is expected to be approved by the NCAA later this week, the Burlington Free Press learned. The America East conference filed the waiver after the reports of Southland Conference teams […]

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Transfer Waiver Change Could Be Adopted This Week

The discussed changes to transfer waivers for revenue sport athletes will go to the full Leadership Council this week at the NCAA Convention. The Leadership Council will be asked to approve the recommendations of the subcommittee and send them to the Board of Directors for final approval. The changes are not NCAA legislation, rather than […]

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Division I Leadership Council Considering Transfer Waiver Changes

In January 2013, the NCAA Division I Leadership Council, made up of mostly athletic directors, was looking at loosening transfer restrictions especially in the sports that do not have access to the one-time transfer exception (football, basketball, baseball, and men’s ice hockey). As of April 2013, those changes had been scaled back significantly, with the […]

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Egyptian Basketball Student-Athletes Using Coach’s Misinformation to Regain Eligibility

ESPN’s Jeff Goodman: Egyptian basketball players Aly Ahmed and Ahmed Hamdy have been deemed ineligible to play this season by the NCAA despite their claims they followed the advice of a former Division I assistant coach. Ahmed will sit this season at Cal State Bakersfield, and Hamdy has been ruled ineligible at the University of […]

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NCAA Hints At New Stance on Abuse and Mental Health in Waiver Decisions

It will be hard for the NCAA to completely escape the subjectivity of waivers. A waiver means giving an athlete an exception to a rule. It means deciding that an athlete’s situation does not fit a rule that should apply to everyone. That normally requires taking into account subjective details while also making what was […]

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Consistency, Fairness, and Transparency in NCAA Waivers

The NCAA is known as both an uncaring bureaucracy and an organization which simply makes up rules as it goes along. Any organization trying to wrangle the activities of over 1,000 members and hundreds of thousands of individuals at those institutions is bound to grow the large rulebooks and many committees and departments that make […]

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Two of Alabama State’s Four Teams in APR Trouble Cleared for Postseason Play

When APR scores and penalties were released a couple weeks ago, Alabama State stood out with four teams banned from the postseason: football, men’s basketball, baseball and volleyball. But the process is not quite over yet for the Hornets. Waivers of APR penalties can still be filed, and so far ASU is batting .500: The […]

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Transfer Issue Needs More Balanced Tools, Not Blanket Rules

The message from the coaches in Rustin Dodd’s article about transfers is one of powerlessness. Players are going to leave and there is nothing coaches can do about it. As a result the normal movement of students between colleges for a variety of reasons gets a negative branding like “free agency” or “waiver wire”. But […]

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