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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Here is a strange situation.....Can you think of a real life situation where a player can be guilty of a NCAA violation if he doesn't transfer? i.e. player's father demoted by school to a no-show job as long as player is in school.
Michael Young?s lawsuit against Houston complicates, benefits (?) Joseph?s waiver case
Houston transfer Joseph Young?s case to play immediately at his new school Oregon is as complicated and confusing as any that I?ve come across.
Let?s start at the beginning.
Young, a Houston native that played in the powerhouse Yates HS program, originally signed a Letter of Intent to play at Providence, but eight months after doing so, his father, a former member of the Phi Slamma Jamma Houston teams, was hired by James Dickey as an assistant coach with the Cougars. Between that and an aunt that was sick, Young decided that he no longer wanted to be a Friar, but Providence wasn?t having it and refused to release him from his NLI.
He filed an appeal with National Letter of Intent Policy and Review Committee, but the appeal was denied in August, meaning that Young would have to sit out a season and lose a year of eligibility to go to Houston. He did anyway, but caught a break a few months later when Young was given a fourth year of eligibility back. The only stipulation was that Young would have just four seasons to use up those four years of eligibility.
Things got mucked up at Houston when Young?s father, Michael Young, was reassigned. He would no longer be the Director of Basketball Operations for the Cougars, instead taking a job in a community service role in the athletic department. Joseph didn?t want to play in a program where his father had been demoted, so he transferred out.
Now, there are a couple of reasons why this move by the younger Young has gotten complicated. For starters, if he isn?t granted the waiver, Young will not be able to use all four years of his eligibility. That wouldn?t necessarily be a deciding factor for the NCAA, except that the situation with his father appears to be murkier than previously thought. Michael Young filed a lawsuit against the University of Houston last week that essentially says that he was fired from his job, but that he was given a no-show job where he would still be getting paid as long as his son was on the team.
?So that Michael will not be part of a fraud for one second,? attorney Reginald McKamie said. ?We want the contract rescinded from the outset so there is no doubt in anybody?s mind that Michael has not engaged in any fraud of the NCAA rules or defrauding Texas taxpayers of any money.?
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Entire article: http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcspo...ton-complicates-benefits-josephs-waiver-case/
Anyway I found it kind of interesting.
Michael Young?s lawsuit against Houston complicates, benefits (?) Joseph?s waiver case
Houston transfer Joseph Young?s case to play immediately at his new school Oregon is as complicated and confusing as any that I?ve come across.
Let?s start at the beginning.
Young, a Houston native that played in the powerhouse Yates HS program, originally signed a Letter of Intent to play at Providence, but eight months after doing so, his father, a former member of the Phi Slamma Jamma Houston teams, was hired by James Dickey as an assistant coach with the Cougars. Between that and an aunt that was sick, Young decided that he no longer wanted to be a Friar, but Providence wasn?t having it and refused to release him from his NLI.
He filed an appeal with National Letter of Intent Policy and Review Committee, but the appeal was denied in August, meaning that Young would have to sit out a season and lose a year of eligibility to go to Houston. He did anyway, but caught a break a few months later when Young was given a fourth year of eligibility back. The only stipulation was that Young would have just four seasons to use up those four years of eligibility.
Things got mucked up at Houston when Young?s father, Michael Young, was reassigned. He would no longer be the Director of Basketball Operations for the Cougars, instead taking a job in a community service role in the athletic department. Joseph didn?t want to play in a program where his father had been demoted, so he transferred out.
Now, there are a couple of reasons why this move by the younger Young has gotten complicated. For starters, if he isn?t granted the waiver, Young will not be able to use all four years of his eligibility. That wouldn?t necessarily be a deciding factor for the NCAA, except that the situation with his father appears to be murkier than previously thought. Michael Young filed a lawsuit against the University of Houston last week that essentially says that he was fired from his job, but that he was given a no-show job where he would still be getting paid as long as his son was on the team.
?So that Michael will not be part of a fraud for one second,? attorney Reginald McKamie said. ?We want the contract rescinded from the outset so there is no doubt in anybody?s mind that Michael has not engaged in any fraud of the NCAA rules or defrauding Texas taxpayers of any money.?
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continued
Entire article: http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcspo...ton-complicates-benefits-josephs-waiver-case/
Anyway I found it kind of interesting.