Stephanie Mavunga

#26
#26
Well, that's a reliable source. I guess if Muvunga drags UNC like the K-State transfer they will release her to her school of choice.
 
#30
#30
Chris89128 said:
Apparently Gray was OK'd to talk to UK too but not Tenn
Click to expand...

So Hatchell is still salty. UK and SC are our SEC biggest rivals. I guess her loyalty to Pat Summitt was thrown out the window. Hatchell will probably be forced out anyways.
 
#33
#33
volcrazy89 said:
She was.
Click to expand...

So, I guess we should just move on to the 2016 class. If I were Muvunga and Tennessee was my school of choice, I would drag UNC just like the Kansas State transfer did. I guess she wants Tennessee so badly to suffer. She knew not to play that game with DeShields because the media would ate that storyline up. Misery loves company and UNC is probably about to get the hammer from the NCAA. Hatchell has to be very upset with all this surrounding her program and I guess she's taking it out on Tennessee.
 
#34
#34
VOL720 said:
So, I guess we should just move on to the 2016 class. If I were Muvunga and Tennessee was my school of choice, I would drag UNC just like the Kansas State transfer did. I guess she wants Tennessee so badly to suffer. She knew not to play that game with DeShields because the media would ate that storyline up. Misery loves company and UNC is probably about to get the hammer from the NCAA. Hatchell has to be very upset with all this surrounding her program and I guess she's taking it out on Tennessee.
Click to expand...

If we could only get one transfer from NC, at least we got the #1 choice.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#36
#36
That's crazy coaches can treat players as if they are property. Who made the rule that coaches can dictate where a player can play? They're already being penalized by having to sit out a year. To tell a player, even though you had your heart set on that school you can't go there, because I forbid you from doing so. I could see if you have a contract to play said school annually, but to block a school that you don't even play is messed up. IMO I think an athlete should seek a lawsuit when that happens.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#37
#37
How can a coach be allowed to block a kid from going to a specific school? If you allow somebody to transfer, you should let them go where they want to go. That's BS. I'd rather hear this sourced to somebody at UNC rather than Cornelius.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#39
#39
This does make it a bit harder to play the "Blame Holly" game, even for the unreasonable dimwits who do it out of habit.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 5 people
#40
#40
I still hate Amanda Butler for that stunt she pulled. I'm still hoping she gets fired and never coaches a game of D1 basketball again.
 
#42
#42
Ridiculous but not surprised.

Alas do not worry UNC is going to get theirs. Unfortunately for them former WVU AD Oliver Luck is now #2 at the NCAA. UNC in particular thumbed their nose down at WVU as an institution, our then President, and then AD Mr. Luck when WVU was looking for a conference home during the college football realignment. Needless to say there are some scores to be settled.
 
#44
#44
armchair said:
I'd rather hear this sourced to somebody at UNC rather than Cornelius.
Click to expand...

I agree. I would like to see it in writing from a reliable source. Cornelius always spews the party line and what she thinks is most advantageous to the team, which often bears little resemblance to fact or the truth.
 
#46
#46
To answer the earlier question, yes. The women's programs were involved in the cheating up to their eyeballs and were mentioned prominently in the NCAA report which is online somewhere. It is very likely they will be forced to release all athletes unconditionally for immediate eligibility wherever they want to go once the final punishment is handed down.

The only reason the NCAA may not go for the death penalty is that the men's program there is so prominent and that is a can or worms they may not be willing to open. I guess the women's program could still be sacrificed but I think we all know how that would play out and the uproar it would cause if they received disparate treatment for the same offenses.

But the final ruling won't come for a while and could be another year or so down the road. Hatchell is really putting a capstone on her career if she is being vindictive over this since she is hurting these girls while she still can instead of being magnanimous about it and accepting the inevitable. If the reports are true then this is the pettiest thing I can ever remember seeing from a coach.

NC will have a great deal of trouble recruiting until they know what the penalties are, and as we see their team will be decimated. I am not sure what sort of athlete they will be able to restock with. Certainly if it gets out that Hatchell did this to these girls then it will make it even harder to recruit. I suspect she knows her career is over and is not handling it with class if these reports are true. The AD needs to sit her down and talk some sense to her since they will be left to salvage some sliver of their reputation and rebuild once this is done and Sylvia's actions would not be a help in that regard.

When a university commits offenses of this nature it is incumbent upon them to mitigate the damage in any way they can and not compound it. They have harmed these girls, especially the ones who may not have participated in the cheating, and they need to let them go where they want so they can have the best prospect of rebuilding their college careers and making the pros.

Restrictions on transfers only make sense when you don't want in-conference schools luring kids away or other schools tampering. Those reasons don't apply here since it is NC's own malfeasance that is in question and not that of other schools.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#48
#48
Really a school can't block a player from talking or transferring to another school. However, if a school does not give a player an unconditional release to another school then the player cannot immediately be put on scholarship but must wait a year and she must make academic progress during that year. A school can pick who they grant unconditional releases to. In the case of DeShields it didn't matter because her parents had enough money to pay her way if she wasn't granted an unconditional release. I can't believe the ACC would put up with that crap though.
 
#50
#50
If Hatchell is telling Mavunga she won't grant a release to Tennessee then Mavunga should appeal to the AD or the ACC. That is BS.
 
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top