James Hudson
More time for Chili Five-Way!
He should have just made up some incident about someone shouting racial epithets. No way NCAA would deny that immediate eligibility request
Or he could've just transferred to OSU.
Probably not a commitable offer.
This. Is there any doubt he’d magically be immediately eligible if he went to OSU?
To be clear, that wasn't a made up story. It was witnessed and the person was reprimanded. Whether the person those remarks were levied at was in fear for his safety if he remained on campus is questionable.
I know. But the NCAA wouldnt dare call BS if Hudson would have made that claim.
In their own dysfunctional way, the NCAA probably investigates those kind of claims. The wouldn’t go so far as discrediting the student, but I could see where they might deny immediate eligibility if there was no corroborating evidence.
Which is why the NCAA should just start granting immediate eligibility on transfers for all athletes. The risk is always there that they will choose the most inflammatory claims if it gets them what they're looking for. Time to make the change and avoid the circuses. That way athletes who might have had real issues don't have to deal with the scrutiny and invasion of privacy. Just let them go.
I just hope there isn't anyone recording around OSU fans when Fields loses to Michigan this year.
And yet his family is comfortable with his younger sister there to play softball. That appeal was a joke. Fields thought he could waltz in as a true freshman and unseat Fromm who had led Georgia to the CFP National Championship Game as a true freshman the prior year. And then used a BS excuse to get out a dumb decision. End of story.
I feel for the kid, seeing Martell getting a waiver for his coach leaving and now being denied would really bother me if I were in his shoes. This was exactly what coach was getting at when the press took it in a complete different direction.
As a football fan, I would guess that James is going to be okay and this will be a year of getting bigger, stronger, faster with little risk of injury.
Well to be fair the way Harbaugh worded his statement could be construed as him accusing one of his former players of faking mental illness, which he may very well be doing. Not saying Hudson is faking it, not saying Harbaugh is accusing Hudson of faking it, but Harbaugh could have just left his original statement about 1 time transfers alone without going off on a tangent about faking mental illness.
While your statement is true, in the adult world, it continues to have nothing to do with Coach Harbaugh's point. The fact also is that reasonable people would not construe the point that was made. What is so difficult to understand here???
Yes, but Harbaugh has a sense of right and wrong that wouldn't be addressed if he hadn't extended the discussion. He's saying we shouldn't be putting kids into situations which effectively force them to construct lies in order to gain something that should rightfully be theirs anyway (immediate eligibility). We shouldn't be teaching 18-22 year olds that's the way the world works.
He's right. He didn't say it wrong or put it indelicately. He made a statement based on what he believes. The story was blown up because of three things that we all understand by now: 1) the sports media has nothing to discuss in this dead air of the sports calendar, and Harbaugh/Michigan anything is good ratings (due to Harbaugh being an unplastic man in a world of synthetics, and Michigan being lightning rod for regionalism), 2) the culture of shock and attack that twitter didn't invent but weaponized, and 3) political correctness which is the same shit that's been happening for decades and needs no explanation.
This whole transfer thing is such a mess-for all involved. Coach Harbaugh's proposal is right on target-and I think the players should be able to return to their originally committed school (again) without sitting out as well. This process is crying to be cleaned up and the sooner the better.
Why did Harbaugh oppose Hudson’s immediate eligibility? His own actions don’t live up to his proposal.
He didn't. He couldn't. He wouldn't.
What planet did you newly arrive from?
He should have said somebody in the band called him a racial name. It works if you go to the suckeyes.
I’m typically on board with immediate eligibility, but it’s clear from context that this is the guy trying to find a legit reason to transfer other than “Got Super Pissed Mid-Season, and I’m Throwing a Tantrum”. I legitimately wish him the best, and I don’t think the NCAA is consistent AT ALL in how they rule on these things, but by the letter of the law this is a clear denial. He’s actually transferring a couple of hours FARTHER from his hometown.
Yeah. He got some bad advice. He asked where Cincinnati is, and someone said, "Up your butt and around the corner," and so he thought the trip would be a lot shorter.
Should've mapped it out first.
It was so dumb to transfer in the middle of the season. That is the person he needs to be directing his anger toward. The NCAA transfer policy is stupid, but the rules are the rules, and it was pretty clear he was going to have to sit out based on the timing. And the ironic thing about it is if he had just waited until the end of the year, he could have just used coaching change with OC Pep Hamilton being let go as the reason for his transfer. Oliver Martin is probably using that for his case, and Hudson could have probably built a similar case around the change in offense along with Drevno being let go the prior year as well.
MICHIGAN has the best mental health facilities. What was his family thinking?
Reading between the lines on Harbaugh's commentary. James Hudson maybe, probably is not really clinically depressed. He just wanted to get out of Michigan and play immediately somewhere else. I have a close family member who is battling the miseries of clinical depression. And it sucks to no end.
I think it was pretty telling listening to his mom describe it. She is in the mental health profession and said she had a meeting with Jim staying what are we going to do about James, he is down and dis heartened. She then said Jim asked James if he wants to transfer.
Why would she not say clinically depressed? I think it's because the context of the meeting was about were James fit on the team, and depth chart.
Which was...wait an effing year and he's probably starting at OT.
Hudson and Solomon...neither made any sense.
Onward.
your title, it’s bad.
Good luck next year.
im so sick of this story. The NCAA was handing out waivers left and right so when they deny eligibility its a huge deal when it should be the other way around.
Also Harbaugh's and Michigan's opinion shouldnt have had an impact on the decision. It would be ignorant to think schools wouldnt suggest players play the "depression" card AKA "homesickness" as it is typically reported. Its also believable if Hudson was experiencing depression that he didnt say anything at Michigan. What Im getting at is that this is an NCAA problem not a Jim Harbaugh or James Hudson problem.
As he should be
Maybe he will be depressed and start changing repeatedly... "I need your supervisor"
Great title. This isn’t 247.
Are you certain? We seem to have 2 threads about the same controversy there.
lmao!
buncha fn morons gonna neg vote a simple fyi--lol---
He seems confused. Maybe things will get better for him.
August 11th, 2019 at 9:05 AM ^
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