So let me get this straight ......

[Thus Spoke Mainer]

Justin Fields is the target of a racial slur by a member of the UGA baseball team IN SEPTEMBER, he stays in school for the remainder of the season, plays on the football team the remainder of the season, supposedly resolved the situation with the abuser, but was so shook up that he had to leave, and now wants to play at OSU IMMEDIATELY.

This is based on MAYBE he might have wanted to join the UGA baseball team, which, by the way, dismissed the abuser in question.

Is there one set of rules for 5-star recruits (like that is somehow on official designation that a guy carries for life) and another set for everyone else? Or is there one set of rules for UM (S. Patterson) and OSU, and another set for all other schools?

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-justin-fields-finalizing-transfer-georgia-ohio-state-165331990.html

 

[Thomas1945]

Yes, yes, yes and yes. Or yes and yes if you considered them to be compound questions.

 

[Option Bob]

I think Fields' lawyer is using the Buckeye Deferment defense: Fields will not be granted a waiver, but he will be allowed to defer his "sitting out a year" until 2021. Of course, he will likely declare for the NFL before that season arrives.

 

[Lion78]

Add to that, his sister will remain at UGA on scholarship with the softball team.

 

[heckmans]

You're gonna' have to make more of an effort to keep up.

There was an amendment made to the NCAA "Hardship" Provisions:


Item 7.2(c):

Any student athlete who meets one of the following criteria will be granted immediate athletic eligibility at his new institution:

1) Student Athlete's unique talents are critically required by new institution in order to remain competitive in football.
2) Student Athlete, or his agent, or new institution's Boosters, hires a Michael Avenatti attorney to file his appeal.

Norm,
Well done. Please try to keep up this level in future posts!

 

[Judge Smails]

Hey, Shea Patterson got the waiver because the Ole Miss coaching staff wasn't honest with him about their penalties. Even though his brother was on the coaching staff.

 

[sluggo72]

I think he'll get his waiver so he will be closer to his family.

 

[mgkpsu]

Justin Fields is the target of a racial slur by a member of the UGA baseball team IN SEPTEMBER, he stays in school for the remainder of the season, plays on the football team the remainder of the season, supposedly resolved the situation with the abuser, but was so shook up that he had to leave, and now wants to play at OSU IMMEDIATELY.

This is based on MAYBE he might have wanted to join the UGA baseball team, which, by the way, dismissed the abuser in question.

Is there one set of rules for 5-star recruits (like that is somehow on official designation that a guy carries for life) and another set for everyone else? Or is there one set of rules for UM (S. Patterson) and OSU, and another set for all other schools?

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-justin-fields-finalizing-transfer-georgia-ohio-state-165331990.html

If someone shouts a racial slur in the woods, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Field. Never. Heard. It.

 

[Kiber]

Unless he has amazing hearing. Living down here in ATL, the radio stations covered this very well in Sept. From what I gather, this other student was sitting in the stands and repeatedly used the "N" word. The story escalated because the other student was a starter on the UGA Baseball team (I believe their starting 2B). Anyhow, because this other student was also a student-athlete, the disciplinary action taken by UGA was "top-story" news down here. Obviously, before dismissing a starting 2B on the baseball team, they needed to have their smoking gun. There were witnesses in his section that simply stated "he was saying it loud enough that we could here him". I do not remember anyone saying that he was screaming it at the top of his lungs. The impression I got from reading the witness accounts, was that he was being the typical loud-mouth jerk that annoys an entire section......... But not loud enough to be heard from the sidelines or the field.

 

[Ski]

Justin Fields is the target of a racial slur by a member of the UGA baseball team IN SEPTEMBER, he stays in school for the remainder of the season, plays on the football team the remainder of the season, supposedly resolved the situation with the abuser, but was so shook up that he had to leave, and now wants to play at OSU IMMEDIATELY.

This is based on MAYBE he might have wanted to join the UGA baseball team, which, by the way, dismissed the abuser in question.

Is there one set of rules for 5-star recruits (like that is somehow on official designation that a guy carries for life) and another set for everyone else? Or is there one set of rules for UM (S. Patterson) and OSU, and another set for all other schools?

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-justin-fields-finalizing-transfer-georgia-ohio-state-165331990.html

I respect his decision because he asked nicely. R-E-S-P-I-C-T

 

[JJTopp99]

Justin Fields is the target of a racial slur by a member of the UGA baseball team IN SEPTEMBER, he stays in school for the remainder of the season, plays on the football team the remainder of the season, supposedly resolved the situation with the abuser, but was so shook up that he had to leave, and now wants to play at OSU IMMEDIATELY.

This is based on MAYBE he might have wanted to join the UGA baseball team, which, by the way, dismissed the abuser in question.

Is there one set of rules for 5-star recruits (like that is somehow on official designation that a guy carries for life) and another set for everyone else? Or is there one set of rules for UM (S. Patterson) and OSU, and another set for all other schools?

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-justin-fields-finalizing-transfer-georgia-ohio-state-165331990.html

... as I posted before, this is a bit of opportunistic B.S.! As if the same kind of thing couldn't happen to him at tUOS (or any other school for that matter). NCAA should tactfully tell him to eff off!

 

[LaJolla Lion]

Martell just lawyered up. He left because Fields went there. Free agency is here.

 

[psuro]

The racial angle was posited by a member of the media as s potential defense by Fiekds’ Attorney and that story has since taken off.

At this point it doesn’t matter who said what because the general public (meaning knuckleheads) have already made up their minds that Fields initiated this defense.

He wants to play more and if his lawyer is successful in the argument-he will.

 

[baircub1!]

Martell just lawyered up. He left because Fields went there. Free agency is here.

NCAA is in quite a predicament.., though.., they HAD to see this coming...