MeanJoe07

March 13th, 2018 at 1:12 PM ^

Michigan football can't have nice things EVER.  reality will always be less than the expectations.  Get used to it and set those bars low for your own sanity.

Trebor

March 13th, 2018 at 1:14 PM ^

Doesn't sound to me like it's dirtbags at Ole Miss, it sounds like it's dirtbags at the NCAA that haven't sent the necessary paperwork to Ole Miss yet.

HenneGivenSunday

March 13th, 2018 at 1:27 PM ^

I’d think just delayed, but I’ve seen too much. In all likelihood, it won’t change a thing about the outcome. It does illustrate just how incompetent the NCAA seems to be in their process for handling these types of issues. In the electronic age, how they don’t get it out within a day or two to the other school is beyond me.

Arb lover

March 13th, 2018 at 1:17 PM ^

I don't know if Mars is reaching out to the NCAA in back channels or not, but his finding out the NCAA hadn't sent their copy of the waiver request to Ole Miss on Sunday, and going public on this until today, was he not told anything over the course of three days? One sure way to piss off bureacrats is to publicly accuse them of failure without having any prior back channels dialogue. If Mars makes it him/players vs NCAA incompetence, the players will lose.I seriously hope Mars isn't going to screw this up.

Sione For Prez

March 13th, 2018 at 1:17 PM ^

I dislike Ole Miss as much as the next guy but this delay sounds like it is entirely on the NCAA for not sending the official package over to Ole Miss for response.

DrMantisToboggan

March 13th, 2018 at 1:30 PM ^

I get this take, but I don't think it's true. Michigan, Shea, everyone expects Shea to be eligible, so that's how they will practice. Everything will do forward as if they already know he is eligible.

 

The only thing it might, maybe, possibly affect is Shea's personal mindset and confidence...but he is such a competitor that I highly doubt he's even worried about not being eligible. He came here to take the job and win big and go pro, so he's going to practice like it.

Erik_in_Dayton

March 13th, 2018 at 1:23 PM ^

Ole Miss apparently hasn't filed a response, and their deadline to do so hasn't passed yet.  I don't see any reason to read anything negative into that as far as Patterson's eligibility for the 2018 season.  The only downside is that Michigan may not know whether to treat him as the No. 1 QB at the beginning of spring camp.

mGrowOld

March 13th, 2018 at 1:28 PM ^

If only there was a poster here who forsaw something like this happening and warned everyone to pump the brakes on the Shea-train cause things NEVER go smoothly (or positively) whenever Michigan and the NCAA are concerned.

I mean if there was such a poster, someone older perhaps, who had witnessed Michigan getting fucked over time and time and time again by the B1G and the NCAA and could've cautioned everyone that if there was a way for the Shea eligibility to be stalled or even blocked the NCAA would find a way to do so.

One thing I know for sure.  If there was such a person and he did warn everyone the very last thing in the world he should do is REMIND everyone of the warning cause there's only one thing this place hates more than somebody predicting bad news and that's if somebody reminds the board they predicted bad news and they were right.