Auburn blocks Derrick Moncreif transfer to Michigan
Ah, there's nothing more NCAA than coaches using the future of players as proxies in their petty pissing contests with other coaches. Hooray!
Still bitter about that Citrus Bowl loss, I see.
And keeping Bo Jackson completely out of the end zone in the '84 Sugar Bowl and ruining any claim Auburn had to the NC.
I feel bad for Moncrief is this is where he wants to go, because he's the real loser in all of this. If Michigan manages to draw Auburn in a bowl game next year, I hope Harbaugh shows them no mercy.
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Not sure if I'm expecting much subtlety.
Probably some eloquent quote about not using the poor for your gain
I was hoping more for something like:
"Roll Tide"
Thats not fair. They are feeling butthurt over the satelite camps.
Thats not fair. They are feeling butthurt over the satelite camps.
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Don't expect SECSPN to talk about it.
ESPN would make a pornstar blush at all the head they give that conference.
TO THE TWITTER MACHINE WD! THIS IS YOUR MOMENT (you better lose yourself blahblah)
YOU HEARD ME! TO TEH TWITTER MOBILE!!
I'm serious. This is where you should use your love of Twitter to spread this around. Do it.
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Isn't that what Twitter is for? I may be doing it wrong.
Boo hoo Gus Malzahn, boo freakin hoo. I did have to just laugh when one of the Auburn fans that works in my office asked about my thoughts on the satellite camps today.
What a shitty move. JH respond to this?
So... Have the beat writers and reporters booked their flights and hotels yet? This young man deserves to have his story heard by the world. Maybe Gus will be kind enough give a rational and informed explanation for his decision. Maybe.
that Gus Malzahn picks up homeless men and pays them to choke him in the shower.
This seems appropriate here. Warning, NSFW
is a real dictator dickhead.
Screw them!
Sounds about right for a conference that even Urban Meyer and James Franklin thought was too sleazy.
Malzahn will pay dearly for this. Teams will use this to absolutely murder him in recruiting. Yes he successfully blocked a player from Michigan, but he will be the one who ends up hurt most by this. Saban will kill Auburn with this.
This is absolutely not a good look for Auburn..I'd be embarrassed if I was an Auburn fan right now.
Embarrassed?
Who are we kidding here? These are the same yokels that retroactively claimed 3 additional national championships a year ago. One of them from over 100 years after the fact and another one where they were banned from a bowl game that season.
I wonder if there is any legal recourse available to the kid wanting to transfer to Michigan. I would think that not allowing the kid to go to Michigan must have some basis other than a coach's pettyness. This is the type of story that could make Malzahn look like a very big fool if the national sporting press pick it up. It's beyond stupid.
It wouldn't surprise me if Harbaugh gets on the phone and tries reason. If not,a tweet wouldn't surprise me.
He'd have to sit out 2015 anyway. We'll get someone else.
True, but its still the principle of the thing. This is a petty move by Auburn with using one of its own student athletes to get back at another school.
Its denying a kid his right to go wherever he wants to go to continue his education and football career.
Prolly still pissed about the Civil War.
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still undefeated
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This basically tells me that Malzahn is willing to fuck over one of his own players just to spite Harbaugh.
I guess it doesn't matter, he will just sign 3 players to fill Moncrief's scholarship and cut two of them.
Also, lol at the SEC being the SEC
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Just cowardly by Malzahn.
Attention MGoLawyers....I've asked this question before on a prior thread but didn't really get a response.
Can someone please address the legality of a school restricting where a student can be released to play?
It seems to me that there is no legal justification or leg to stand on in denying a released student athlete to go to whatever school they want to go to for whatever reason. I get why they do it. That part is very obvious. But regardless, this is a free country, kids can choose to go to whatever school they want to.
What would happen if someone actually sued the NCAA or a school? I just can not see how this is remotely legal and am surprised that this hasn't resulted in a lawsuit of some sorts even a long time ago.
If the schools can restrict transfers, that sure makes it seem like student athletes are treated a lot more like employees, than students... The NCAA should not allow restrictions on transfers if they want to carry on with their charade.
Wouldn't this argument, that a student athlete is similar to an employee, give even more merit to their desire to form a union?