Unverified Voracity Has Legal Arguments
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so so fast
Not so fast. Incoming transfer Ty Isaac wants to play next year, and has at least some sort of case to do so. Is it enough? While we are talking about an insane organization that could do anything, the consensus is probably not.
"(The family health issue) has to be a debilitating injury," said John Infante, a former NCAA compliance officer who operates the popular "Bylaw Blog" for AthNet. "It doesn't have to be life-threatening, necessarily, but it would have to be something that prevented her from working or getting around, if it's a surgery for hearing loss, I'm not sure if that'll qualify, but it might."
And then the 100-mile thing kicks in. If Isaac was 109 miles away, you could probably fudge the difference. Michigan's distance from Peoria might be problematic.
From Michigan's perspective, moving Isaac a year behind Smith and Green is better for roster balance… but not so good for this year, when offensive production is critical for the perception of the program.
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O'Bannoning. The O'Bannon trial kicked off yesterday, and there were highlights. The NCAA wanted O'Bannon to know that a man he respected thought college athletes should not be paid.
After establishing that O'Bannon looks up to Bill Walton, attorney pulls up article Walton wrote saying student-athletes shouldn't be paid.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) June 9, 2014 It was determined that Noted Legal Scholar Bill Walton has a legally binding opinion and the case ended 15 minutes later with a comprehensive NCAA victory. : (
In case the previous sentence is not true, you may want to read about the issues addressed on day one of the trial. The NCAA is trying to show that the college experience is worth something, which I guess sure it is. How that relates to publicity rights and the law is… well, there's a reason Bill Walton is getting brought up.
In related news, the NCAA blinks in the Keller case, settling that for 20 million. They have again asserted that current student-athletes who receive a check for their likeness will not have their eligibility compromised, because that's ridiculous. As long as compensation for your likeness is mandated by a court after the fact, you can profit off of it.
"In no event do we consider this settlement pay for athletics performance."
It's just getting paid for something without having to sue they have problems with. Delightfully, the NCAA is going to try to argue that there is no market for college athlete's images after settling two lawsuits in which 60 million dollars have been issued in compensation for those images. Oh, and EA says they would have paid if they could have.
Also a prime NCAA argument: the ban on compensation is required for a level playing f—
“If you’ve got a $6 million athletic budget, you shouldn’t be worrying about what I do,” [Washington president Michael] Young contends. “You’re never going to compete with us. We don’t recruit the same players. We don’t even play on the same field. It just doesn’t matter.”
Hm.
A potential factor. The student section is collapsing this year, and MLive has a potential reason why. Prices:
Ohio State -- $252 for 7 games
Penn State -- $218 for 7 games
Wisconsin -- $188 for 7 games
Iowa -- $175 for 7 games, $165 with future alumni group discount
Michigan State -- $175 for 7 games
Nebraska -- $166 for 7 games
Purdue -- $119 for 7 games
Illinois -- $99 for 7 games
Rutgers -- $99 for 6 games
Minnesota -- $90 for 7 games
Indiana -- $60 for 6 games
Maryland and Northwestern -- tickets free with full tuition and student fee payment
Michigan's is 50 bucks more than Ohio State; unlike Ohio State, Michigan is barely above .500 since 2007. And Ohio State has a big game or two on the schedule. Once again, Michael Proppe sounds like the adult:
"We did a survey for students while we were researching the general admission policy, we told them 'assume the price stayed the same, here's the schedule for next year, even if we went back to reserved seating, how many would renew their tickets?' I think it was about 68 percent who said they'd renew.
"(The drop) was pretty predictable, actually, even with going back to a more attractive ticket policy that a lot of people would drop their seats."
And about 68% renewed. It's kind of amazing that it's the student government that had to survey the students.
Brandon:
"What we want is the students who buy tickets to show up," Brandon said. "If what we've done is lost some of the students that really weren't interested in attending, if you're looking at the projected reduction in tickets, that's almost the equivalent of the no-show average we had (last year)."
The no-show rate is not going to go down much, as the kind of people who no-show games aren't the ones for whom three hundred bucks is kind of a big deal. Michael Proppe for athletic director.
Everybody into the pile. I thought Michigan's hockey roster was going to be crowded this fall. Now it's going to be jammed. Michigan picked up a commitment from Ann Arbor native Niko Porikos a couple days back. Porikos is a '93, which means he'll arrive at 21. Generally this is a sign of a gentleman who is destined to be a healthy scratch for most of his career, and… well, yeah, probably.
In Porikos's favor, defensemen do take time to develop, and given the state of the roster it's not like they need a guy to be a practice body.
Michigan has seven defensemen on the roster, plus incoming freshmen Sam Piazza and Cutler Martin. Porikos is number ten…
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
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Zach Werenski and what appears to be a Swedish ten-year old
Michigan has not quite acquired a commitment from U17 defenseman Zach Werenski. Poke a guy on twitter, or especially Mike Spath—who was way out ahead of the story but has to be careful for the same reasons Sam Webb does—and he'll say Werenski is going to be in Ann Arbor. They'll generally do this with an "ugh" because Werenski is kind of a big deal, a potential top ten draft pick, and they are Boston College fans who thought they were going to get him.
The thing is: he's a potential top ten draft pick in 2015, and Werenski is probably going to be playing for Michigan this fall. IE: dude is skipping his senior year of high school. Thus the "eh, maybe" aspect of this whole thing, where Spath drops hints for months and all the news comes from the BC side of things.
Adding Werenski would put Michigan at a whopping 11 defensemen, and while a few of them are not real threats to play (Spencer Hyman redshirted last year; Mike Szuma didn't get a game after playing most of his freshman year), I thought there was some Title IX-related reason that Michigan couldn't have a really big roster. Maybe not? Title IX compliance comes down to a court saying you are or are not, because the law is written pretty vaguely.
While we're on next year's hockey team, Dylan Larkin is ranked ninth by HockeyProspect.com. That's the highest I've seen, and while he's more likely to go in the 20s than the top ten it does seem at this point that he's likely to go in the first round unlike some of Michigan's recent projected first rounders (Compher, Merrill).
So it's come to this. I assume that Erin Lennon of the Daily has not been around too long, so let me gently suggest that this…
…expect Porikos and Michigan’s underclassmen to play key roles in coach Red Berenson’s defensive-minded system.
…is more a product of sad circumstance than intent, and that if you insist on claiming that Red Berenson is some sort of trap aficionado I will become desolately sad.
It was football. Someone remind me next year when the European American Football Championships are on, because when Germany and Austria face off you get reverse passes and squat kickers doing the Manziel:
So Austria's kicker just made the Manziel $$$ sign after nailing a field goal. You should be watching this. pic.twitter.com/zBdMYL5GTK
— Robert Klemko (@RobertKlemko) June 7, 2014 Turns out the Germans and the Austrians have some bad blood here, and that's all you really need.
Etc.: Graham Glasgow was driving a merry car indeed. The NCAA hasn't even bothered to investigate North Carolina. The NCAA would probably prefer it if Washington's president would stop saying things. Mathlete's Lego stadiums make Yahoo.
Sonny Vaccaro's long feud with the NCAA is culminating in the O'Bannon case. EVEN MORE O'BANNON. Stauskas preps for the draft. This headline sounds inflammatory but it's really not.
Berenson's defensive minded system is defensive in that he requires the forwards to play defensive roles as much as offensive roles- something he changed at some point when Sauer was in net I think- the game changed from 8-3 beatings in the 80s & 90s to a 4-2 sluggouts where more shots are blocked than taken on net over the last 10 years. Plus, we've had issues in goal off and on for a decade.
I can't believe M is charging 20% more than the next highest program for student stickets this year with that schedule.
ESPN and USC's website roster say he's from Shorewood, fwiw.
But I was still sad not to see this linked in the Etc.
There are plenty of floppers and plenty of sports, even though soccer is known for it. But this coach just does a great job here. A little finger poke to the collar bone and he looks like he's in Darth Vader's deadly force grip. Yet, seconds later, he's right back up and going at it. Good stuff that.
I like soccer, but I'm not one of those naive fans who try to act flopping it's not a problem.
The worst is when someone gets a tiny nudge to the head, acts like his nose is broken, then falls to the ground because, you know, that suddenly makes your legs stop working.
It is especially irritating when the flopper is practically winking at the camera while being helped off the pitch.
I've heard fans blame the whole situation on the refs whom they say are too incompetent to recognize the flops. I say it's an ideal that says fair play and honor mean nothing against the possiblity of winning. An ideal my old man worked very hard to make sure I didn't carry with me.
Soccer players are just less honorable people? Come on. The problem in soccer is that flopping has huge potential benefits and basically no risk. If they just started cracking down and giving yellow cards (I believe they can give yellow cards now for flopping but it basically never happens), it'll cut it way down.
Every sport has problems with diving or steroids or pine tar, etc. in baseball or rough stuff in a fumble pile. In the sense of being fair or moral, diving isn't any worse than an intentional hook a hockey player tries to get away with to prevent a breakaway.
Is the Isaac transfer already a done deal or does it depend on if he's allowed to play this year? I know he said he will transfer, but has he yet? If the NCAA rules he cannot play this year at UM does that mean UM doesn't land him? How does that process even work...like is the athlete allowed to find that out before transferring or can he not even apply for the waiver until afterwards?
My own opinion and one that is based on nothing, is that they already have a good idea of how it will play out. So, if I were to look at the situation positively, I would say that they believe he will be able to get the waiver and play this season. That is why he pulled the trigger and chose UM.
…or he doesn’t mind sitting a year.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Everyone kind of knows how the NCAA will likely rule, so I imagine Isaac made this decision with the understanding he may be sitting out a year.
Maybe his mom has relatives in Detroit and she's going to move there? Or maybe UM Medical has a specialist for her problem, so she is going to move to Ann Arbor? Then she'd be within 100 miles. Where does it say she can't move in order to get closer to his school he wants to transfer to? Just a thought....
Seems unlikely she'd move, but from the DetNews article I linked below, she does indicate she may have the surgery she needs at the U-M Hospital (with help from a wife of one of the coaches).
“I have a surgery that has to get scheduled,” she said. “(Michigan assistant) Coach (Jeff) Hecklinski’s wife is going to recommend someone for me up there at Michigan. My hearing is really bad and we’re trying to find a way to resolve that, but right now I feel OK.”
I tend to agree, but as with you it's just my personal opinion. Technically however, he is not a UM student yet.
Does anybody else think the whole transfer waiver for a sick family member is a little ass backwards? Wouldn't sitting out a year allow a player to have more free time to spend with their sick family member than if they have to play and practice 40+ hours a week in addition to attending classes?
Michigan officially announced Isaac's transfer today, so I think people can stop worrying about whether it's going to happen or not.
Sam Webb's DetNews article on Isaac yesterday made it clear he's prepared to sit out a year if he has to. It also indicates that it's Michigan that has to apply to the NCAA for the waiver, not Isaac and his family.
“We were told flat out that it’s not up to us as a family or Ty as an athlete to request the waiver,” Mrs. Isaac said. “It’s up to the school. So Michigan has to go to the NCAA and say we want him to be able to play this year because he came home for a hardship reason. That’s Michigan and the NCAA. I don’t know what kind of documentation we’re going to have to produce, but I have stacks of doctor’s visits and bills. I would be happy to give all of them to them. So I know that Michigan has to go to the NCAA and ask for Ty to play. I don’t know (how long the process will take).”
Isaac expressed optimism when asked about the likelihood of receiving the waiver, but he understands the very real possibility that it could go the other way.
“I think he is prepared to handle (a denial),” Mrs. Isaac said. “I think he’d be disappointed. He wants to play. He is lifting every day and he is staying shape. I think he will be very disappointed if he can’t, but he knows that’s a possibility.”
In the grand scheme of things, though, he deemed that potential disappointment a small price to pay to be closer to home and playing for a program with which he’d already established a strong relationship. Being a car ride from his mom, as opposed to a plane ride, isn’t a matter of convenience. It’s a matter of her health. She has yet to receive a clear diagnosis for the litany of ailments that she has been stricken with over the past year, but she has received clear instruction on dealing with her very serious ear condition. She must cease so much flying or risk the total loss of hearing.
Good stuff. You've got to think there would be someone at UM who knows someone, who knows someone at the NCAA, that will get this pushed through.
it sounds doubtful he will be eligible immediately based on what they said.
"They'll have to establish that it's a serious enough injury or illness to warrant the waiver, and then there's the problem with the distance, and that's why I sort of feel like it's unlikely to be granted," Infante said. "You have to establish that you're going to be involved in the care (of your family member), that's part of being closer. If you're four hours away and you're not able to be there regularly, then that's going to argue against you getting that waiver. "So far (they've been firm on the 100-mile rule), I can't point to any cases off the top of my head where someone got a waiver like that at a school beyond 100 miles that didn't have other factors to trump that."
Never made sense to me why DG was able to receive a medical redshirt (I'm not complaining), so hopefully Isaac can somehow get the waiver.
If only he'd had a few kilos of cocaine in that trunk he really could've scored some points
Would have been more appropriate. Especially given his penchant for cat sweaters, it would 'splain some things.
"From Michigan's perspective, moving Isaac a year behind Smith and Green is better for roster balance… but not so good for this year, when offensive production is critical for the perception of the program."
5* RB or not, if he doesn't have a hole to run through it won't matter. Adrian Peterson couldn't have averaged 100yds behind our line last year and that was with two NFL tackles. Getting hit behind the line before you can make a move is not a good thing. Ask Vincent Smith.
If we got a 5* guard transfer from another school I think there would be a little more hand-waving for him to start immediately, roster depth be damned. As it stands, *upgrading the RB position isn't going to keep them from being hit before they hit the hole.
*Remember, Green was a highly rated recruit as well
Barry Sanders could have!
About the use of "this".
The aforementioned roster balance isn't referring to next year so much as it's referring to which class he'll belong to. If he plays next year then we'll have 3 running backs in the class of '13. That's fine for competition but our future roster will be more "balanced" because eligibility will be spread out and you won't have a bunch of players at one position exiting at the same time.
That's not to say that roster balance trumps winning now, especially in the case of Hoke where his seat is getting warmer which is why Brian said "but not so good for this year, when offensive production is critical for the perception of the program." It's a pro/con situation.
It's entirely possible that the team will get better if Isaac can play this season. It's also entirely possible they won't. It's been all-too-frequent in recent years that fans and, occasionally, members of this blog have declared that recruit/player X is going to lift the team (Sam McGuffie, Tate Forcier, Ondre Pipkins, Shane Morris, etc.) and they must start/play now. Maybe not explicitly but it's been discussed. My point is: temper expectations for what, if anything, this one player can do for the team on day 1. He's probably not going to be the difference between 7 and 10 wins. There are a multitude of other issues.
I'm sure it was the greatest article ever written, an article that makes all other articles pale in comparison, and article that is the living embodiment of the kind of excellence that John Wooden demanded of his teams.
Seriously, though, I'm interested in his opinion. I'd like the surviving members of the Grateful Dead to weigh in before I make up my mind, though.
Walton's article, like Boris Diaw, reminds of Beethoven and the Age of the Romantics.
Best guy, basically.
Sent him an email the other day thanking him for his work. Only person in MSA who did anything of notice during my continuing yrs at the university. I'm sure other have made contributions, but let's be honest. At Michigan football is pretty much the most important thing.
What would it take, and what are the odds of success, of any effort to oust him? Maybe some pressure/petitions/campaign from alumni, current students, fans, former athletes. He clearly has no clue about anything other than money, but I'm sure we could find someone who can also make money, but can do so without ruining everything that makes UM and college sports so special.
Per MLive:
"No one can make a claim, even though they want to try, no one can make a claim that we're doing anything here that's financially motivated," Brandon said at the time. "(Because) we're not."
Hmmm ... 13,000 x $295 = 3,835,000.00. Pathetic.
Go Blue!
18*$3.76 = $67.68. $295 is 4.3 tanks of gasoline.
You are complaining because your season tickets cost the same as 4.3 tanks of gas?
Come on - get real.
I am upset about the price of UM student tickets, but Brandon has a legitimate point about student attendance. Has student government (or anyone else for that matter) provided constructive alternatives for increasing student attendance for the full game?
P.S. Please refrain from writing 'winning.'
1. Schedule teams people want to watch
2. Don't ruin atmosphere with ads and bad music
3. Keep the things that make the college football experience different (and in my opinion better) than the pro football experience. This includes things the band playing music, not piped in music.
4. Incentives to showing up on time, such as have been suggested by Brian and others on this site. Not incentive such as a t-shirt, which I believe they actually tried.
5. Have the old "block seating" based on seniority, but add negatives for people that fail to use tickets, show up late. Kind of like they're doing now.
6. Price the tickets appropriately.
7. Don't treat the students like idiots. Don't say things like "We need to improve Wi-Fi because "kids these days" when Wi-Fi was the absolute last thing studnets were concerned with according to the survey.
8. Be competent. Don't implement any system without accounting for all possibilities. Don't fuck things up so lines take forever even though the gates are open.
$100 for just the plans to the lego big house? ouch.
Does anyone have a torrent?
...Porikos' father is a local businessman who is a large supporter of the Michigan Hockey program.
May have had something to do with his addition to this class.
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