PressBox DFW: Patterson rails against the waiver storm

[Gil LeBreton]

PressBox DFW: Patterson rails against the waiver storm

By GIL LeBRETON
PressBoxDFW.com

As he stood there last week, his feet firmly planted on the lush emerald meadow of the TCU football practice field, Coach Sunshine couldn’t have been happier.

The weather was warm. The quarterbacks were looking good. Six days of spring workouts were completed, and no essential personnel had left with a limp . . . yet.

“You need to get this,” coach Gary Patterson said, gesturing to the new turf Bermuda, so green that it appeared, well, artificial.

He was in a rare mood, indeed. But then our old friend Drew Davison brought up a sore subject, and Hurricane Patterson suddenly blew in.

Read more at: https://www.pressboxdfw.com/patterson-rails-against-the-waiver-storm/

 

[BABYFACE]

GP is right, it will ruin CFB if these immediate eligibility requests are awarded with the exception of grad transfers. Grad transfers have earned the right.

A simple way to stop the lawyering up, is to just do away with immediate eligibility due to mitigating circumstances. If the NCAA determines that we’re special circumstances involved, then the transfer player will not lose a year of eligibility, but still will have to sit a year. This is way it should have been done all along imo.

Example: If a player transfers out after redshirting his freshmen year, he would still have 4 years of eligibility left and will not lose a year of eligibility while sitting out a year if a special circumstances waiver is approved by the NCAA. Immediate eligibility is the problem here and that can be removed from the process.

 

[ShadowFrog]

Mike Collins is a grad transfer?

 

[Eight]

Mike Collins is a grad transfer?

i don't believe so as he had to sit a year before being eligible to play

 

[WhatTheFrog]

Mike Collins is a grad transfer?

No, he came here as a Soph as I recall.