The three member faculty panel at Florida State University responsible for reviewing the appeal of Brandon Warren’s previously denied transfer request gave their decision on Monday. Bottom line: denied.
“It is the determination of the faculty panel that the information presented by Brandon Warren does not rise to the level of ‘objective evidence that proves the student-athlete’s extraordinary personal hardship’ and is insufficient to support his appeal of the NCAA and FSU transfer policy. Panel members were unanimous in their conclusions that the appeal should be denied and the transfer rule should be enforced.”
That’s not all, according to FSU Sports Information Warren will now appeal to the NCAA. There are complications because Warren did not finish his freshman year of school. If he wins that hardship appeal, he could be eligible to play for a D-1 school (Tennessee) next season. Otherwise, he would have to sit out, not one, but two full football seasons before he would be eligible to play. He could also take the Junior College route in 2007 and then he would be eligible to play division one football in 2008.
Due to privacy issues not all of the details of the case are being discussed. Most believe that he is requesting the hardship to be closer to his sick mother who had a cancerous kidney removed in June 2005. However, according to reports, that cancer has been in remission since then so it’s hard to understand what may have changed between the time he left Alcoa for Tallahassee and now.
If you remember, it was January of 2006 when Brandon Warren came on Mark Packer’s television show to announce that he was going to FSU. It didn’t make much sense, to Vol fans at least, to come on a local Knoxville television show to announce that you are going to the school that you already committed to – and it’s not Tennessee.
Warren was rated as a 5-star player and the number one player in the state of Tennessee in the class of 2006.