I wouldnāt touch this kid with a 10 foot pole the unless it was a depth piece for some shooting off the bench. Unfortunately for the Hokies this is probably their starting 4 because they have nothing on the roster, but heās going to get absolutely abused defensively even more than Nickel was.
They do have a highly rated 4 coming in. Ryan Jones
Do their commits start bailing at some point?
If this works, I think that means every Ivy player who overlapped with 2020-21 would have a shot at an extra year on top of being a grad transfer.
https://x.com/adamzagoria/status/1775902085273534556?s=46&t=wAzMZR-0PRGT1LpN6U5x0g
Though I found this random Twitter reply persuasive that even with the NCAA getting paddled in every court case, they would be right to deny the waivers here:
https://x.com/biasedmike/status/1775923971361251366?s=46&t=wAzMZR-0PRGT1LpN6U5x0g
So to be precise, the āCOVID yearā is actually 2020-21, which doesnāt count against your eligibility no matter whether your team played or not. I had been thinking of the 5th year as an extra year of eligibility, which isnāt quite right by the NCAAās definition.
Biased Mike is correct IMO. The whole thrust of the extra year was to get players and teams to play that year. Would undercut the entire rationale to allow it.
On the other hand, itās the NCAA. Who knows WTF theyāll do
Of course itās Sticky Ricky whoās being the fly in the ointment too. I thought he decided his team (who he completely recruited after turning over all the old coachās dudes) wasnāt athletic or tough enough?
They should be athletic enough once theyāre age 25+
Itās not about what the NCAA will do. Itās about what the courts will do.
Yeah itās probably inevitable that student athletes will get 5 years of playing eligibility
Short of eliminating all eligibility rules, Iām not sure what the courts could/would doā¦ I guess Iām saying I donāt see a principle that is short of saying that any enrolled student gets to participate. And by the way, I donāt rule that out!
Titus used to say this all the time. If you want to stay enrolled as a student and the school will have you, grad school, law school, whatever, then why not have unlimited eligibility? Although that argument maybe gets more complicated in the NIL era.
If the day comes when college athletes have infinite eligibility, Iām out. This covid year crap has been nightmare enough.
Will you please let me be the one to crash the system when you go though?
Please request the 4 day work week with this
We all thank you
https://twitter.com/jordanmoore_21/status/1775986861221015922?t=48hJVED2oL--w8DowySTmg
Hereās one that could maybe be of interest. No production to really speak of but was highly regarded out of HS/someone we recruited fairly heavily at one point.
No one likes their school cept our guys apparently
These dudes just gotta learn to be more continuous and they wonāt have to worry about entering a shitty portal.
Freddie Dilione is a good Hunter Sallis Candidate for Wake Forest. One of those guys (like Young Peja and Gavin Griffiths) where their freshman stats were meh to negligible but you can just tell they will be decent if not really good in the future.
The vibe/chatter Iām getting from Vols fan reactions is Dilione didnāt play much defense under Barnes, so not sure if thatād fly with Bennett. Definitely super talented though.
Yeah probably another Forbes reclamation project at WF.
Also would imagine Louisville and NC State will be on him as well