Saban Does His Thing

#51
#51
bamawriter said:
I'm not seeing how the Townsend transfer is a good comparison to Smith's. Townsend will be sitting out next season. Given that he's an undergrad, there's no waiver that Butch can give that would allow him to play in 2016.
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My point was Townsend was reportedly granted a complete release from his NLI by UT. That enables him to go on scholarship this season with UF even though he will lose a year of eligibility and play in 2017. Different deal with Saban. He wanted to stop Smith from being in the SEC, period. My point was about the complete release.

Somehow they rethought their position after all of the negative press. Unless Sankey tries to mess it up, in which case there will be a lawsuit.
 
#52
#52
Vols4us said:
My point was Townsend was reportedly granted a complete release from his NLI by UT. That enables him to go on scholarship this season with UF even though he will lose a year of eligibility and play in 2017. Different deal with Saban. He wanted to stop Smith from being in the SEC, period. My point was about the complete release.

Somehow they rethought their position after all of the negative press. Unless Sankey tries to mess it up, in which case there will be a lawsuit.
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A lawsuit that won't help Smith at all. At this point, Smith is screwed if the SEC simply waits a few weeks to clear his waiver.

This whole thing is a mess. I don't like this rule, but I really don't understand why Smith and his family went this route. The crazy part of all this is that Smith has only been eligible for the grad student transfer for all of five days.
 
#53
#53
The only one looking really small here in all of this is Nick Saban. The player GRADUATED, he did his time for his scholarship. He should be allowed to go wherever he wants now. There is zero reason to force a player to stay if he doesn't want to be there AND he's already graduated. There shouldn't be a condition in the post graduate transfer rule that allows a coach to decide if they get to leave or not.
 
#54
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Coug said:
The only one looking really small here in all of this is Nick Saban. The player GRADUATED, he did his time for his scholarship. He should be allowed to go wherever he wants now. There is zero reason to force a player to stay if he doesn't want to be there AND he's already graduated. There shouldn't be a condition in the post graduate transfer rule that allows a coach to decide if they get to leave or not.
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The coach doesn't get to decide whether or not the kid leaves, he gets to decide whether or not the kid can play next year at a school in the SEC. Smith had originally said that he wanted to transfer to Baylor or Miami, and Saban couldn't have prevented either under the rule.

It is, however, an added restriction on players who already have way too many.
 
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bamawriter said:
Like I said earlier in the thread: Black was constantly injured, was buried on the depth chart, and transferred for playing time after requesting his transfer near the end of last season. Smith was in line to start, asked for his transfer following Spring practice, and wants to go to a staff that knows Bama's system and could do a lot of damage if they knew the new signals.

While, again, I would just let Smith go, it's dishonest to act like the situations are identical.
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What damage is he going to do though? You only face him IF both make it to ATL. Is Kirby going to sell the signals to everyone in the West? Was Saban really that worried about something that may or may not happen 120 days from now?
 
#57
#57
It looks like Saban took his head out of his own ass and made a rational decision on the subject. I guess getting spanked by the media for an entire week will do that to a hard headed, selfish oaf like Saban.
 
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#58
I don't have to read through ALL of the arguing, but who paid for this kids education?
 
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Smith's waiver has been cleared by the SEC.

Should Smith play in 2016 and fail to complete nine hours of coursework, he will not be eligible for post-season competition. Should he fail to graduate prior to the beginning of the 2018-19 academic year, Georgia would be precluded from requesting a waiver of either the two-year eligibility requirement or the intra-conference transfer rule for a graduate transfer in football until the beginning of the 2021-22 academic year (three years) or Smith’s graduation from the graduate program, whichever comes first.
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This is a fairly reasonable ruling.
 
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