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Jeremiah Masoli
The rejection of Masoli’s eligibility waiver means that he would not be able to play for the Rebels until 2011. Ole Miss opens its football season Saturday afternoon at home against Jacksonville State.
Masoli needed approval to be eligible, as such transfers typically need to sit out a year after leaving one NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision program for another. Masoli had completed his degree work at Oregon and is pursuing a Masters degree at Ole Miss.
The Ole Miss appeal of the NCAA staff’s decision will now be reviewed by an NCAA subcommittee. A response could be expected as early as Friday but no later than one week, according to an Ole Miss statement.
Click here for more reaction in Parrish Alford's blog.
Read more on this story in Wednesday's NEMS Daily Journal newspaper.
Stole that from PA's blog. Same situation different results.
Read more: NEMS360.com - Ole Miss will appeal NCAA s Masoli eligibility ruling
(A) Kevin Kruger graduated from Arizona State and when he graduated in the summer of 07 he informed the coach at ASU he was transferring (as a grad-same rule waiver Masoli seeks) to UNLV to play for his father (Lon Kruger).
NCAA Bylaw 14.5.1.3 Disciplinary Suspension. A student who transfers to any NCAA institution from a collegiate institution while the student is disqualified or suspended from the previous institution for disciplinary reasons must complete one calendar year of residence at the certifying institution. (effective 8/1/97)
I didn't think he was suspended by the school, only by the football team. I thought he could still go to classes, right? No one should have a problem with the NCAA requiring him to sit out a year, unless he has met all the requirements. I guess we will get an explanation within a week.
Finally, something we agree on! lol!
And he picked his degree program because it is one that is not offered by Oregon so that he can attempt to comply with the NCAA transfer rule.
And he would not be here had he not broken the rules and been dismissed from the Oregon team.
The NCAA is right in that it is obvious that the ONLY reason he is at Ole Miss is to circumvent the punishment he received for rules violations at his previous college. A program that seems to have a sense of ethics and rules enforcement.