Joey Hauser's waiver denied by NCAA
Per LSJ. Izzo devastated. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
November 21st, 2019 at 2:06 PM ^
Pity.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:55 PM ^
I see Harbaugh is at again. Screwing kids over that are seeking waivers.
November 21st, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
he got haused
November 21st, 2019 at 2:07 PM ^
Sparty tears taste so sweet !
November 21st, 2019 at 2:11 PM ^
I mean I'm glad MSU will be worse but I'm not going to celebrate a kid losing a year of basketball to a stupid fucking system
November 21st, 2019 at 2:15 PM ^
He doesn’t lose a year. He just has to sit out and red shirt like everyone else. I’m not sure why they thought he could be immediately eligible anyway.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:29 PM ^
They didnt which is why they didnt try to get him eligible at first. Izzo is probably full of shit when he says they have a strong case
November 21st, 2019 at 2:29 PM ^
Yeah I don't get it. He just wanted to transfer to the #1 ranked team in the country. He didn't have to do that. Nothing is being taken away from him.
November 21st, 2019 at 3:03 PM ^
If his goal is to make the NBA he is most certainly losing a year. Its not that MSU should have expected anything less, its that a system that restricts player movement is a bad system.
November 21st, 2019 at 6:39 PM ^
He should not have transferred, then, knowing the rules for non-hardship, if his plan was to declare after this year. Was his reason—look at Justin Fields?
Otherwise, redshirting and playing scout team against a top 5 starting 5 can help improve his game AND get him a degree more easily since he can focus on learning.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:30 PM ^
Where was the outrage when Charles Matthews had to sit out a year? Or Duncan Robinson?
Oh right, this is the new system. Appeal for a waiver for any reason, then cry, cry, cry when it gets denied. Fits Izzo to a T.
November 21st, 2019 at 3:05 PM ^
It is a crappy system just like it was for Matthews and Robinson. Until coaches have to sit out a year for taking a new job anything that restricts player movement and them doing what is best for them is a bad rule. Competitive balance shouldn't trump doing what is right for the kids, especially if you are going to continue to force them to not get paid
November 21st, 2019 at 3:21 PM ^
I don't think it's about competitive balance. I think the NCAA believes players will be more likely to graduate if they spend their 4-5 years at one school instead of two, so it's created a disincentive (sit out a year) for transferring.
November 21st, 2019 at 3:44 PM ^
The medical redshirt rules are more ridiculous than this. Mario Ojemudia should have gotten a medical redshirt but the NCAA wouldn't bend on ONE GAME. Isn't the NCAA supposed to represent the athlete's best interest?
Meanwhile Fields at O$U cries racism and many other nonsense cases.
Just another example of the NCAA needing to get their act together.
November 21st, 2019 at 3:00 PM ^
If you want to be upset about anything, it’s that the NCAA is forcing him to STAY in East Lansing for an extra year if he wants to play there.
November 21st, 2019 at 4:05 PM ^
Eh, if he's anything like every other highly ranked prospect that Izzo has conned into going there, he'll be obligated to stay there as he watches his draft stock sink. In a way, this ruling might've helped him avoid one year of izzo dragging him down.
November 21st, 2019 at 4:11 PM ^
Sounds like Hauser should be in concussion protocol.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:16 PM ^
sweat is NOT tasty
November 21st, 2019 at 2:55 PM ^
Mmmm salt.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:09 PM ^
"Izzo said the decision on the Hauser situation and the current handling of transfer waivers by the NCAA caused him to resign from the National Association of Basketball Coaches Board of Directors on Wednesday night after the ruling was issued."
I wonder if the members keep their own basketballs there, and if yes, did Izzo pick his up when he went home.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:14 PM ^
Poor Tommy. It's been a rough week. He's taken a lot of bullets.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:23 PM ^
It's going to be so nauseating when every game they play, they show a shot of Hauser, with Izzo's cronies on the announcing team decrying the injustice. "He had to quit the council of assholes over this! He felt so strongly about it. Yammer yammer inconsistencies in transfer rules rabble rabble! They're losing this game pretty much only because this kid was unjustly not allowed to play! Or they are winning this game against all odds, because this kid was unjustly not allowed to play. Second best shooter!!!"
November 21st, 2019 at 3:58 PM ^
There's no doubt it will regularity be mentioned as "adversity" for the MSU team on broadcasts. If Dick Vitale is calling one of their games, Hauser's name will be mentioned more than the guys actually playing.
November 21st, 2019 at 6:36 PM ^
And Izzo is going to sing of the injustices committed against him in every post game press conference. If he wins hell claim it is despite the NCAA actively trying to stop his team. If he loses hell cite being undermanned and held back by bureaucracy as the reason.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:53 PM ^
And yet, he wore a teal ribbon! He cares!
November 21st, 2019 at 3:30 PM ^
It's good to know that this isn't a self-serving move by Izzo or anything, given that he's only been dealing with NCAA transfers for *cough* 25 years...
November 21st, 2019 at 2:10 PM ^
"Wait, I have to live here [gestures at a row of closed storefronts on Grand River Ave] for a year before getting into an actual game?!"
November 21st, 2019 at 2:11 PM ^
At least now he has a scapegoat for any losses this season.
November 21st, 2019 at 4:38 PM ^
As opposed to all the other years? If there's one thing izzo is lacking, it's height. If there is another he lacks, it's perspective. Excuses are something that he has in spades.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:17 PM ^
Uhhh. ........ I hate it when basketball starts and I have to listen to Izzo whine like my 5 year old for the next five months.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:45 PM ^
Had to login to upvote this comment on Whizzo, (Whiney Izzo).
November 21st, 2019 at 2:19 PM ^
Solari probably had himself a good cry after submitting that article. Poor guy.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:54 PM ^
And then he ends the article with this:
"Izzo said Hauser came to MSU not expecting to play, and that he and the university did not initially plan to appeal for an immediate waiver until Hauser's family decided to try for one."
So, how can you be "devestated" over the descision that was made? What a douche! Cry me a river Izzo...
November 21st, 2019 at 2:27 PM ^
I strongly dislike Izzo, but he's got a point here. NCAA waiver approvals are a total crapshoot and they seem entirely willing to believe some absolute lies from kids that are clearly transferring solely for athletic reasons. Some of the ones that get approved are absolutely laughable (like, how in the world did Aubrey Solomon get one?).
November 21st, 2019 at 2:56 PM ^
Oh, no doubt. Doesn't change the fact that this was probably the correct ruling in this case, but Fields, Solomon, the osu kid who went to Miami... A bunch of non-sensical jokes.
Then again, when has the NCAA ever been consistent and made sense?
November 21st, 2019 at 3:01 PM ^
I cannot find any info on the basis of Joey Hauser's appeal. I suspect it is pure BS or it would have been made public.
Hey Tom, if it is such a crapshoot and an injustice tell us what the basis was!
November 21st, 2019 at 2:38 PM ^
Good news for everybody except Hauser and MSU
MSU is a lot more beatable now. Wouldve been a bitch if they got Langford and Hauser back
November 21st, 2019 at 2:44 PM ^
Another tough week for tiny tom!!!!
November 21st, 2019 at 2:46 PM ^
Aw, Tom. I'm so sorry.
I heard that he was so upset, he wanted to take his team to Florida to cheer them all up. Except he couldn't get past middle Tennessee.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:49 PM ^
Poor Tom. Now he'll have no choice but to play the weird guys.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:51 PM ^
What were the grounds for the waiver appeal? Izzo says they have a strong case, but I haven't been able to find what the grounds were in any of the Hauser transfer articles. The way the NCAA hands out waivers these days, Hauser's case must be pretty flimsy.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
Izzo sent the NCAA a YouTube video of himself crying for 3 minutes.
November 21st, 2019 at 3:19 PM ^
The grounds were “Because I really want it!”
November 21st, 2019 at 6:19 PM ^
He should have said someone called him a cracker. The precedent has been set.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
Sparty tears are joyous. And Gizzo's are the most joyous.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
UVA didn't pursue a waiver for Joey's brother Sam. I like to think that contributed to the NCAA's decision to deny MSU.
November 21st, 2019 at 3:06 PM ^
Who cares ... But I will say that I have no doubt kid would be playing if he had transferred to Duke