MSU's Ben Carter gets 6th year
No word yet on Ed Davis' 7th year. I wonder why Jeremy Clark wasn't allowed to come back for another season yet they keep getting marginal situations to go through up in East Lansing.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state-universi…
This is about a player, and what's fair to him, not the team. You are confusing levels of analysis.
He did miss 2 seasons, yes. And he was injured twice. But the first injury caused him to miss only a few weeks. He's getting credited a full season for one of either the transfer sit-out year, or the 6 weeks he missed.
Michigan players have "shit luck" and are almost never given a sixth year. Fuck the NCAA.
...let the hate flow through you.
The difference between 3-9 is 6, so obviously there is significance here?
If we can't use the football program's laughable mediocrity to lob jokes at MSU's collective existence, what's the point of hating Sparty?
I don't even care. MSU is irrelevant to me. As long as Michigan continues to get better, who cares what MSU does? They are once again becoming "little brother."
In basketball? Really?
Gesundheit!
I'm alright with letting these guys come back since it will help them to make the NFL/NBA and work towards a graduate degree etc. but then let Clark come back when he played less than 4 complete games.
http://www.nsudemons.com/news/2017/5/5/demon-basketball-ncaa-grants-seventh-year-waiver-allowing-jalan-west-to-return-for-2017-18.aspx
NCAA just gave a kid a 7th year as well 3 days ago.
Like fine wine and circus peanuts.
That quote from Two-Faced in "Batman Forever" comes to mind whenever I think about MSU and expectations:
"Fortune smiles, my friend, another day of wine and roses....or in your case, beer and pizza"
Drunken allergic reactions?
The ncaa is doing everything it can against Jim Harbaugh. Being he is the head football coach, the Michigan football program will get nothing positive from the ncaa. That is quite obvious by changing rules like satelite camps that have been in place for years.
Really and spectacularly!
But that means he has to spend another year smelling that east lansing smell.
I disagree with the responses along the lines, of "Meh, who cares?" or "Good for him, we should root for people, regardless of the clor of their uniforms." While I agree with those sentiments, I will add that what's annoying is the somewhat arbitrary nature these rules are applied. Couple that with the fact that the NCAA is both incomeptent and corrup and we have a problem. I don't trust them. I don't trust them at all.
Izzo cannot use the weird guys excuse next year, but I am sure he will find some sort of excuse when they do not play well.
What a joke.
IMHO, all scholarships should last 5 years, the 4 year/redshirt thing is kind of dumb considering that most people think it takes 4.5-5 years to earn a degree anyway. Then there should be the option to extend the scholarship out to include grad school. I don't care what kind of competitive advantage this provides, the student part needs to come first.
Who?
This type of ruling is what the rule should be used for, if equally applied.
The fact that it was unequally applied in past instances should not mean that it is incorreclty applied going forward.
But I'll reserve my statement on whether the NCAA is handling this right going forward until they rule on a MSU practice squad player of the year just kidding injured (but we won't even take down the page that literally says the opposite) and a Clark situation consistently. So like, never.