February 8th, 2019 at 5:23 PM ^
In the end UGA didn’t object to the transfer which certainly made the case much easier.
February 8th, 2019 at 9:33 PM ^
They would look horrible if they tried to lawyer up. he filed a racial claim, he left, it’s not like he’s coming back, so they have no logical reason to object. I’m not going to pretend like I’ve been through any situation where I’ve been called a racial slur but my issue with this situation is that his sister is still going there to play softball, so to claim a racist culture is a bit of a farce. I don’t really care that he’s eligible, I think all student athletes should be allowed one free transfer, coaches lie all the time and they’re kids. But it’s the fact that he used one event by one individual to paint an inaccurate picture that irks me. If this were true his sister would not be going there...
February 8th, 2019 at 9:56 PM ^
So sisters who play softball are the same as the QB of THE revenue sport? You can’t imagine the football QB being different than a non revenue sport sister, the fan base is the same? Maybe the comments and life experiences of a QB are different? They didn’t claim a racist culture. In fact, NO ONE on this board or anyone who is outside of those who have ACTUALLY SEEN the transfer paperwork have a clue as to what reason was listed. PERIOD. The NCAA and UGA (by acquiescing) made damn sure no one would.
As an aside, the faux outrage of the team who just took a QB1 transfer is silly. It’s not like there was any expectation this wasn’t going to be the outcome and yet the pretend outrage is reverberating.
February 9th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
CMHCFB, thank you for the well reasoned post. People hear something and think they have all the facts. Nobody knows what all went down other than those involved.
February 8th, 2019 at 11:45 PM ^
This has nothing to do with race. Or at least it shouldn’t have anything to do with race. It’s an insulting excuse with a hard line between fair and unfair or right and wrong.
What it is is pretty much a big fuck you to those who think rules mean anything. And that’s all it is.
I am not getting the impression Fields is a great leader. Clearly Martell is not. JT Barnett was a really good QB but an even better field general. However you cut it...QB is a big unknown for OSU next year.
If Georgia did not block file a complaint are the complicit?
February 9th, 2019 at 10:26 AM ^
You are missing the issue. He went there as a MLB Prospect to also play baseball. The student who said those things was a member of the baseball team and had been for a while. This guy has friends on the baseball team. Fields did not feel he could play baseball with this guys friends.
February 9th, 2019 at 11:01 AM ^
Stop saying he went there to play baseball. It's just a flat out lie. He was a baseball prospect in HS yes. If he went to UGA to play baseball he would have been on the team his freshman season. His scholarship would have counted against football and not against the baseball team so they would have taken him if he was even mediocre, because it's a free walk on with a ton of athleticism. He quit baseball to focus on football and has no intention of going back. Just stop with this bullshit.
February 11th, 2019 at 4:38 PM ^
Hey Maine, glad to meet you, I'd challenge anyone on here on having followed this case closer than me and I have actual sources at UGA, Where did you find that he filed a racial claim, that his argument for eligibility was based on said racial incident? Not assumption, not I think this is what he did, can you tell us where to read that exact description? Nothing has been posted on line at all about what they filed and it wasn't Fields who actually filed the racial incident, Fields didn't actually hear the guy say it. It was fellow students sitting near the guy that filed the incident and had him reported. hell maybe you have sources at UGA that have better info but I'd doubt it. You say I've never been called a racial slur and follow that up with a "but" like you are challenging someone who directly or indirectly was involved with a racial incident by implying that it really shouldn't be that big a deal. I am not an African American man and I am not someone who says "I don't see color" because I do, I see that people look different than me and will never understand what it's like to live in their world. Had he stayed, what would happen if he actually DID beat out Fromm? How many people would start the narrative that "oh man he got the job because of that incident and UGA is afraid of getting in trouble. It would cause an issue in the locker room, it would divide players and fans when in actuality it isn't or may not be true. why should he stick around and risk that? He is in a no win situation. Fields is an incredible, hell beyond incredible athlete and it SUCKS he chose OSU but to act like he saw an opportunity to exploit a situation is wrong and insensitive to him.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:31 PM ^
Not surprising in the least
February 9th, 2019 at 1:35 AM ^
Just like Jake Rudock who got beaten out by CJ Beathard or Shea Patterson who got beaten out by Jordan Ta'amu?
February 9th, 2019 at 3:18 AM ^
This comment is ridiculous. Shea has not yet been “beat out” by anybody.
February 9th, 2019 at 11:11 AM ^
Shea was not beaten out by Ta'amu. Shea is the better QB. More TDs in less attempts and less ints. This narrative was invented by bitter Ole Miss fans trying to make themselves feel better.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:32 PM ^
I'm glad. Players having to sit a year when coaches don't is bull, even with out the racist crap he went through at Georgia.
Not happy we have to play him, but happy he gets to play.
February 8th, 2019 at 7:31 PM ^
Do we know if he is actually any good?
February 8th, 2019 at 10:10 PM ^
About to start watching QB1 Season 2 on Netflix. I'll let you know soon.
February 8th, 2019 at 10:40 PM ^
He got beat out by Jake Fromm who was... about the same as he was last year as a freshman? QB’s transferring solely on the basis of PT aren’t usually world beaters.
February 10th, 2019 at 4:17 PM ^
Such as Kyle Murray and Baker Mayfield?
February 8th, 2019 at 4:34 PM ^
I’d like to feign surprise, but I just can’t. Somebody hurt his wittle feewings, after all.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:44 PM ^
A fellow student athlete made a racial slur. One who was a potential teammate on the baseball team. The athletic department dismissed the player, because they were sufficiently horrified.
February 8th, 2019 at 5:26 PM ^
Fields' family was so horrified that they enrolled his sister at the school just to keep an eye on the guy that yelled the racial slur.
February 9th, 2019 at 6:34 AM ^
Something tells me Fields wouldn't have been so horrified by the the racist slur if he had beat out Fromm and was the starting QB at GA. This transfer is 100% about playing time. Period.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:51 PM ^
A fellow student-athlete repeatedly shouted “put the n****r in!” while laughing and was allowed to remain at the school. I think I’d be a little upset too.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:55 PM ^
I'm to understand that baseball player was dismissed from the school.
February 8th, 2019 at 5:04 PM ^
Nope, dismissed from the Baseball team but allowed to stay in school
February 8th, 2019 at 5:06 PM ^
A Georgia student told me he was kicked off the baseball team, so he left the school so he could be able to play baseball somewhere else.
February 8th, 2019 at 9:26 PM ^
Brutus has it right. He was booted off the baseball team but could have continued at UGA. He made the decision to leave.
February 9th, 2019 at 10:58 AM ^
So just to clarify, he lost his full ride scholarship but could have chosen to stay at the school and pay his own way to no longer play baseball?
February 8th, 2019 at 4:34 PM ^
There was no way they (powers that be) were going to leave Ohio State without a viable QB for the 2019 season. Too much money involved....This doesn't change a thing, Michigan still going about their business either way. Onward and Upward....Go Blue!!!!!
February 8th, 2019 at 4:34 PM ^
We all knew how this would play out the day we learned he was going there. Nice to see OSU get a break once in a while.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:34 PM ^
If one racist comment qualifies as a hardship, everything does. This is the beginning of the end of the transfer rule.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:37 PM ^
If we're being honest, Shea's hardship waiver was nearly as flimsy. I think this is just the next logical step.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:40 PM ^
Counterpoint: no it wasn’t
February 8th, 2019 at 4:43 PM ^
It was absolutely bullshit when Patterson said it as well. At least there you could sorta squint and say this guy lied about Ole Miss being a shitshow. With Fields, it's literally "some baseball players called him the n word in the stands of a football game", which is horrible but also an incredibly low bar for "hardship" in my eyes. Plus, his sister is going to UGa on a softball scholarship, which makes me cock an eye at the whole "it's unsafe for me" bullshit.
As always, give the players more freedom and we'd get rid of this charade.
February 8th, 2019 at 6:36 PM ^
In today's world, the ncaa had no choice. This was as much about not getting in the crosshairs of the "what am I going to be outraged about today" crowd as anything.
February 9th, 2019 at 10:50 AM ^
You are exactly right! It cracks me up how many people do not see this! The media and the SJW's would have devoured the NCAA and they know it.
February 8th, 2019 at 11:59 PM ^
Pay them all and let the players go wherever they want. Michigan has more Alumni and fans than anyone else AND an Athletic Department with more money than God. We will win in the end!
February 8th, 2019 at 5:03 PM ^
How? He was lied to by the coaching staff about NCAA punishment and his team received a post season ban
February 8th, 2019 at 5:14 PM ^
Being lied to by the coaching staff is par for the course in recruiting. And, in past cases, the NCAA has only allowed transfers if the postseason ban covered the athlete's remaining eligibility. If Shea hadn't sued, he would have had to sit out. The waiver was granted once all parties involved realized that nobody wanted the dirty laundry aired.
February 8th, 2019 at 8:43 PM ^
"Being lied to by the coaching staff is par for the course in recruiting"
Ahh, so it was Shea's fault for being gullible...
February 9th, 2019 at 2:12 AM ^
If Patterson had wanted to transfer to OSU instead of Michigan, I'm pretty sure there would have been a lot of people here saying basically that, yes.
I think the transfer rule is outdated and silly, and I'm glad Shea was able to transfer and become eligible, but I don't really understand the overall response here. I really didn't think I was saying anything controversial. :)
February 9th, 2019 at 8:43 AM ^
Oscar, #1 Patterson knew Ole Miss was under investigation when he signed, plus his brother was an assistant coach .
February 8th, 2019 at 7:11 PM ^
You serious Clark? His school hit with a bowl ban because they cheated. I'm sure fields isn't the first kid to be called terrible things at school. I've heard worse things at sporting events. It's fine that he got a transfer but Shea had more of gripe .
February 8th, 2019 at 5:07 PM ^
All any future representation of a transferring player has to do now is log on to Twitter and check their client's mentions. Immediate eligibility for errrrrbody.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:36 PM ^
Its nice to see something nice happen for Ohio State.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:54 PM ^
If you say so. Living in Ohio around these a-holes would sour anyone.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:38 PM ^
jajajajaja…..for what!?!?
February 8th, 2019 at 4:38 PM ^
The part that has me confused is that it took Patterson months and months to get approval when the Ole Miss coaches lied to him and it was a legitimate case with tons of evidence. Justin gets approval in two weeks because someone called him bad racist names. The time line is crazy let alone that it was approved. I’m pretty sure every kid in the country can now come up with whatever excuse they want and so be it.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:47 PM ^
Absolutely boggles the mind that Patterson's case was tightly adjudicated over the course of months and the Red Sea parts for Fields as soon as he arrives on campus.
I would say the NCAA is setting themselves up for chaos next year because a hundred guys who are upset at their place on the depth chart are going to start hearing bad things said about them. But then I realize that it's the NCAA, an absolutely corrupt whore of an organization, and they have no qualms about ruling inconsistently across the board. The difference between the Michigan and OSU approaches to the waiver rule is that Michigan didn't pay anyone.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:49 PM ^
Patterson's case actually helped pave the way for this I'd wager, same lawyer and everything. And a key difference in the time frame is that Georgia said "nope we're cool we're not going to contest" and Ole Miss did the opposite with Shea.