Update (not to worry) on Shea Patterson (QB xfer) NCAA ruling timeline
Not a huge change, but possibly noteworthy. Landof10 is reporting that Patterson's lawyer Thomas A Mars (who is working closely with the university) has not yet submitted Patterson's request for a waiver.
“It’s a time-consuming process for Michigan to prepare the full package of documents that will go to Indianapolis,” Mars wrote.
Mars is anticipating that the NCAA makes its decision in late February, but indicates that the process could take longer.
What is possibly interesting here is not the delay in timeline, but rather the alleged scope of documents they are going to provide. Patterson is likely going to make the case that he would not have attended had he not been misled. I don't want to speculate about where the time consuming portion of the document discovery/recovery is coming from, but it's usually a good thing when there's a lot to provide (with the request for immediate eligibility).
Previously it has been reported and reflected here, that the NCAA would rule on Patterson's eligibility before signing day next month.
If you want the NCAA rules covering the rundown on Patterson's transfer, Brian did a great post earlier you should check out (again).
Mars has some experience with how the NCAA brings the request to the original institution for comment and uses that in the decision process, and earlier expressed his confidence on that front:
“I’m not aware of any rational, legitimate reason for Ole Miss to oppose any of the requests for immediate eligibility,” Mars said
January 17th, 2018 at 8:31 PM ^
If ess eee see commissioner skankey is on the review committee, we and Shea are screwed.
January 17th, 2018 at 8:49 PM ^
If Saban hires Hugh Freeze the SEC will have an incentive to avoid a lawsuit that would necessarily involve depositions of Freeze. In fact, an aggressive attorney could go wild with depositions to investigate SEC recruiting practices.
January 17th, 2018 at 8:58 PM ^
Well it won't be as OC. Reports are they are going with Mike Locksley, their current WR coach.
January 17th, 2018 at 9:00 PM ^
Mars has made it clear he has no intent to sue the NCAA over this.
However that could just be taking the high road, as the facts create their own argument that likely wins out, and indicating that he's a bully would only serve to have the NCAA dig in.
However I agree that Hugh essentially getting immediate eligibility to coach at Alabama may create a side reason for the NCAA to also approve the eligibility, if simply for the reason that it looks really bad if the rule breaker gets immediate eligibility, but players who were misled don't.
January 17th, 2018 at 11:18 PM ^
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January 18th, 2018 at 8:28 AM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 12:09 PM ^
Nothing more true has ever been written.
January 18th, 2018 at 9:27 AM ^
let go by Ole Miss for how he recruited and ran the program already gives Patterson a huge leg up in this whole thing
January 17th, 2018 at 8:33 PM ^
January 17th, 2018 at 8:35 PM ^
Whew! For a minute there I was worried...
January 17th, 2018 at 10:24 PM ^
January 17th, 2018 at 10:52 PM ^
ew man wtf?
January 18th, 2018 at 1:25 AM ^
It's ok. I belong to the Henny Youngman school of humor.
January 18th, 2018 at 8:35 AM ^
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January 18th, 2018 at 9:44 AM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 9:48 AM ^
Hahahahaha, apparently not...
January 17th, 2018 at 8:36 PM ^
Feel it = your better half clown friends demanded this info from Harbaugh before he was permitted to eat steak?
January 17th, 2018 at 8:43 PM ^
Was that post written in code?
January 17th, 2018 at 8:46 PM ^
January 17th, 2018 at 8:48 PM ^
FauxMo posted a "Harbaugh is at my restaurant thread" thread that was later updated to include a picture his wife/friends took with Harbaugh while he was in the bathroom. Non-Jim faces were edited to be clowns because kayfabe.
January 17th, 2018 at 9:01 PM ^
I just found the photo - that is terrifying.
Though I did like the idea that you were typing in code.
"Update on Shea Patterson: steak dinner Harbaugh better half revelations blue forty-two purple monkey dishwasher."
January 17th, 2018 at 9:38 PM ^
The eagle has landed. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache...
January 17th, 2018 at 10:15 PM ^
Not John?!? Nooooo!!!!
January 18th, 2018 at 7:49 AM ^
January 17th, 2018 at 8:35 PM ^
NCAA will probably grant the waiver because a law suit would not be in their best interest as they keep trying to protect their cabal.
January 17th, 2018 at 8:38 PM ^
Total bullshit the NCAA is making Michigan jump through all these friggin hoops. The facts are apparent and very public in the case of Ole Miss. The NCAA could easily just green light this shit but no...let's torture Michigan for the hell of it.
January 17th, 2018 at 10:21 PM ^
The schools they're transferring to are stuck in the same hell as Michigan.
January 18th, 2018 at 7:25 AM ^
Wasn't Malik Zaire allowed to transfer to Florida last year all of a sudden due to some "rule changes"?
January 18th, 2018 at 7:56 AM ^
January 17th, 2018 at 8:39 PM ^
IIRC from the crazy hooker phone saga, Mars used to lead Wal-Mart's legal team. Good to see Shea has lawyered up all the way.
January 17th, 2018 at 9:39 PM ^
You just randomly remembered that? This doesn't have anything to do with seeking your own famous hooker lawyer, does it???
January 17th, 2018 at 10:19 PM ^
January 17th, 2018 at 8:57 PM ^
How friggin' complicated can this be? Seriously. It takes months to file paperwork and for the NCAA to review? This is one student athlete that is transferring schools. The NCAA is worse than the federal government!
January 17th, 2018 at 9:13 PM ^
Shea probably could have taken an afternoon and filled out a couple of forms, attached a copy of some emails he had, and a statement of what Hugh or other coaches told him that misled him that wasn't covered in emails or texts, etc., and the NCAA could have made a ruling on that.
However it's my understanding that Ole Miss gets a chance to comment on the request, so the request is being crafted for two parties. Michigan is pulling out the guns so that only someone who wants to play with fire and likely get burnt would fight (in Ole Miss's case) or rule against (in the NCAA's case).
January 17th, 2018 at 11:28 PM ^
January 17th, 2018 at 9:16 PM ^
Right?!!? But the SEC can change its academic transfer rules to allow a QB into Floriduh in a heartbeat. Whatever...
January 17th, 2018 at 10:35 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 10:47 AM ^
urgency. I'd think they need to know by spring practice.
There are a number of other schools that are also involved with Ole Miss transfers. Either some of them will be heard first or Michigan is coordinating with them on the timing. If the NCAA rules in one or more cases first, the reasoning they cite will help shape and simplify Michigan's arguments. So being slow may be a deliberate strategy.
January 17th, 2018 at 9:03 PM ^
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January 17th, 2018 at 9:49 PM ^
January 17th, 2018 at 10:22 PM ^
Just the kind of guy who would lie to his wife and kids.
January 18th, 2018 at 5:57 AM ^
He seems like the type of guy who would lie to God himself on the Judgment Day, and then deny it was him in the pictures.
January 18th, 2018 at 7:59 AM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 9:35 AM ^
Exactly. I'm sure Freeze lied his ass off. It's the "reasonable reliance" element that I don't quite buy into.
January 17th, 2018 at 9:23 PM ^
go blue!
January 17th, 2018 at 10:35 PM ^