Notre Dame DL Jay Hayes announces plans to grad transfer.
BK, when asked why he wasn't at practice: "academics".
Umm, I know Kelly is an asshat of the first order, but this goes beyond. Seriously, how does he still have any players? I mean, I get why people keep playing for Mick Dantony - they can get away with littering, if nothing else. But Kelly just told the world that one of his players couldn't hack things academically. What a complete asshole.
...littering is the one thing they don't get away with. Everything else, it's open season. But littering? Arrest them, book them, and convict them! Whether they littered or not!
Agreed on Kelly, though. What a jerk.
....but the coaching staff does get away with putting a 20-year student assistant in a 50 foot scissors lift on a windy day when winds were greater than 50 mph and having them fall to their death. Practice continued after the student fell to their death.
https://deadspin.com/5675694/prelude-to-a-tragedy-how-a-notre-dame-stud…
Even worse is that it wasn't some random gust out of the blue as some Notre Dame fans portray it as. The meterologists had been predicting dangerously high winds for a couple days in advance and the day before they had high winds too.
One day though, one day...
Seducing unmarried women either. Query: does the implicit distinction mean they can seduce married women?
since Hays hadn't yet announced he was leaving.
Just saying he was in class would be the most tactful thing he could say, but Kelly was probably unhappy with him and saying something factually correct was as good as he could manage.
What in the holy fuck are you talking about?
Academics could mean that the graduate program he'd like to pursue isn't offered by ND or there isn't room for him. Shame on all of you for first assuming Kelly was calling him out for grades. First, you simply don't know and second, he can't grad transfer without first having graduated.
If that's what "academics" really meant, then Kelly should have said that. Or nothing.
He knows that saying a player left for "academics" will be understood as the player was failing classes or not going to classes.
That's how you call a kid out for grades.
Which may be what he actually wanted.
How could we have possibly ever inferred something negative from a curt, ambiguous statement made by such a fine and decent purple-faced troll of a man! Shame on us indeed.
ONE WORD out of BKs Mouth..not one word
That makes zero sense. How can you say a guy is transferring because he can't hack it academically when he is leaving with a degree?
....I thought the same, but one possibility is that his undergrad grades must be just good enough to graduate, but not strong enough to get into a nd graduate school program that he wanted.
I'm not so sure that's true. Michigan had a basketball player several years back who graduated and had another year of eligibility left and would have stayed but was not accepted into the graduate program he wanted. It happens. Some of the graduate programs are very selective in who they accept, and no amount of athletic prowess will make up for any perceived academic shortcomings there might be.
the grad program he wanted didn't have room for him. That's how he ended up at OSU. Of course, he wasn't planning on staying here. That's the closest I've got.
If he was going to stay at ND for a 5th year, would he even need to apply to a graduate program? He could simply take additional undergraduate classes (or pursue a minor or dual degree) as loong as his eligibility is still good, correct? I am not certain if NCAA regulations or ND policy would require him to be a graduate student for the 5th year.
He has to be accepted to the Grad School to stay, right? Maybe that was the issue?
5th year players don't have to be grad students here or any other place I've heard about. He could take fewer classes this semester and defer his graduation or take classes to work towards a second bachelor's degree.
before his 5th year, so during his final campaign he just had one class that fall semester: ballroom dancing.
He might play a little if he came to Michigan.
Speaking of transfers, I haven't heard a thing about Casey Hughes, the DB transfer from Utah.
The Hughes transfer, and I keep forgetting about him, is still strange. Why would he transfer here knowing the stacked depth chart?
Winning a starting job here is great preparation for the NFL. It's not strange for players with NFL ambitions to have confidence in themselves. And if he can't win any of the starting jobs, he's not likely to make the NFL, but he's going to grad school at Michigan, great preparation for life after football.
Great answers from both of you!