Free Olivier

[LowCountryCat]

I thought given the NCAA's track record, this might be the time to start this.

We know that if Duke were his destination of choice, he would be given a private jet flight and red carpet, funded by Emmert himself.

But since he's considering coming here, there is possibly a 50/50 chance that he will suddenly find it difficult to procure a waiver.

So...

Let the Sarr Watch begin!

 

[akaukswoosh]

Let’s face it. Wake’s biggest victory in years will be making sure he plays overseas rather than at UK.

 

[LowCountryCat]

Let’s face it. Wake’s biggest victory in years will be making sure he plays overseas rather than at UK.

Just like it was Emmert's/UDub's when Enes was sidelined.

 

[RunninRichie]

Screw that fat bastard forbes

 

[Rideordiewildcat]

Kanter Part II. Both foreign players and both will probably never be allowed to play for UK while others get away with murder.

 

[harrison11]

I said it in another thread but can someone explain to me how Baker and Green were able to play without their coach even being fired but Olivier wouldn't?

 

[UK90]

I thought given the NCAA's track record, this might be the time to start this.

We know that if Duke were his destination of choice, he would be given a private jet flight and red carpet, funded by Emmert himself.

But since he's considering coming here, there is possibly a 50/50 chance that he will suddenly find it difficult to procure a waiver.

So...

Let the Sarr Watch begin!

History does not support your premise. A coaching change alone has never been considered suffiicient grounds to get a transfer waiver. If the NCAA denies his waiver request, it will not be because of UK.

 

[UK90]

I said it in another thread but can someone explain to me how Baker and Green were able to play without their coach even being fired but Olivier wouldn't?

Yes.

Baker's waiver was based on the special circumstances that he'd already been forced to sit out an entire season with injury and thus it would've been fundamentally unfair to make him to sit out a second season and lose an overall year of eligibility. And Green only got a one semester waiver (he would've been eligible in December regardless) and also had the grounds that he'd already sat out nearly the entire prior season.

Those are distinctly different situations from Sarr's situation.

 

[LowCountryCat]

History does not support your premise. A coaching change alone has never been considered suffiicient grounds to get a transfer waiver. If the NCAA denies his waiver request, it will not be because of UK.

Well good, at least we can have a discussion about it.

 

[kl40504_rivals]

History does not support your premise. A coaching change alone has never been considered suffiicient grounds to get a transfer waiver. If the NCAA denies his waiver request, it will not be because of UK.

Here is a semi-complete list of college basketball players who earned eligibility waivers in 2019. Links to each players’ Sports Reference pages are included as well. And this list does not include freshman that transferred and were immediately eligible. Based on the head coach being fired and the coronavirus issue I think Sarr's chances of receiving a waiver are very good.

Seniors (non-grad transfers)
Markus Golder, Portland State (via Valparaiso)
Lamar Hamrick, Portland State (via Detroit)
Jaylen Poyser, McNeese State (via St. Bonaventure)
Mohamed Thiam, Iona (via New Mexico State)

Juniors
Alex Barcello, BYU (via Arizona)
Chris Barnes, Eastern Michigan (via Tulsa)
Troy Baxter, Morgan State (via Florida Gulf Coast)
Tervell Beck, Kent State (via UNLV)
Khameron Davis, Weber State (via Pittsburgh)
Andrew Gordon, Louisiana Tech (via West Virginia)
Elias Harden, Jacksonville State (via Xavier)
Danya Kingsby, Bradley (via LSU)
John Knight III, Southern Utah (via Utah State)
Zeke Moore, SIU-Edwardsville (via Tulsa)
Donnie Tillman, UNLV (via Utah)
John Walker, Texas Southern (via Texas A&M)
Isaiah Washington, Iona (via Minnesota)
Shawn Williams, New Mexico State (via East Carolina)

Sophomores
Darius Beane, Northern Illinois (via Southern Illinois)
Shandon Brown, Niagara (via George Washington)
Michael Carter III, Long Beach State (via South Dakota State)
Karrington Davis, Southern Illinois (via Nebraska)
Duncan DeMuth, Vermont (via Oklahoma State)
Trey Doomes, Chattanooga (via West Virginia)
Myles Douglas, Saint Joseph’s (via UCF)
Amir Harris, George Washington (via Nebraska)
Brady Heiman, South Dakota (via Nebraska)
Chase Johnson, Dayton (via Florida)
Joshua Mballa, Buffalo (via Texas Tech)
Angus McWilliam, UC Riverside (via TCU)
L.J. Owens, UMBC (via William & Mary)
Jared Rodriguez, San Diego (via Idaho)
Omar Silverio, Hofstra (via Rhode Island)
Tyler Stewart, Saint Francis (PA) (via Binghamton)
Calvin Temple, Louisiana (via IUPUI)
David Wingett, South Dakota State (via Memphis)

Some of these transfers have no special circumstance that the NCAA should have approved the waiver but they did. I also did not include Chris Vogt, a sophomore at Northern Kentucky university. His coach John Brannen left NKU and went to Cincinnati as head coach. Then Vogt followed his coach to Cincinnati and received a waiver to play immediately.

 

[UK90]

Here is a semi-complete list of college basketball players who earned eligibility waivers in 2019. Links to each players’ Sports Reference pages are included as well. And this list does not include freshman that transferred and were immediately eligible. Based on the head coach being fired and the coronavirus issue I think Sarr's chances of receiving a waiver are very good.

Seniors (non-grad transfers)
Markus Golder, Portland State (via Valparaiso)
Lamar Hamrick, Portland State (via Detroit)
Jaylen Poyser, McNeese State (via St. Bonaventure)
Mohamed Thiam, Iona (via New Mexico State)

Juniors
Alex Barcello, BYU (via Arizona)
Chris Barnes, Eastern Michigan (via Tulsa)
Troy Baxter, Morgan State (via Florida Gulf Coast)
Tervell Beck, Kent State (via UNLV)
Khameron Davis, Weber State (via Pittsburgh)
Andrew Gordon, Louisiana Tech (via West Virginia)
Elias Harden, Jacksonville State (via Xavier)
Danya Kingsby, Bradley (via LSU)
John Knight III, Southern Utah (via Utah State)
Zeke Moore, SIU-Edwardsville (via Tulsa)
Donnie Tillman, UNLV (via Utah)
John Walker, Texas Southern (via Texas A&M)
Isaiah Washington, Iona (via Minnesota)
Shawn Williams, New Mexico State (via East Carolina)

Sophomores
Darius Beane, Northern Illinois (via Southern Illinois)
Shandon Brown, Niagara (via George Washington)
Michael Carter III, Long Beach State (via South Dakota State)
Karrington Davis, Southern Illinois (via Nebraska)
Duncan DeMuth, Vermont (via Oklahoma State)
Trey Doomes, Chattanooga (via West Virginia)
Myles Douglas, Saint Joseph’s (via UCF)
Amir Harris, George Washington (via Nebraska)
Brady Heiman, South Dakota (via Nebraska)
Chase Johnson, Dayton (via Florida)
Joshua Mballa, Buffalo (via Texas Tech)
Angus McWilliam, UC Riverside (via TCU)
L.J. Owens, UMBC (via William & Mary)
Jared Rodriguez, San Diego (via Idaho)
Omar Silverio, Hofstra (via Rhode Island)
Tyler Stewart, Saint Francis (PA) (via Binghamton)
Calvin Temple, Louisiana (via IUPUI)
David Wingett, South Dakota State (via Memphis)

Some of these transfers have no special circumstance that the NCAA should have approved the waiver but they did.

Well, that's a nice list. But without information showing what special circumstances their waiver application was based on, it doesn't really tell us much regarding Sarr's chances.

 

[kl40504_rivals]

Well, that's a nice list. But without information showing what special circumstances their waiver application was based on, it doesn't really tell us much regarding Sarr's chances.

Tells us that the NCAA is approving more waivers than some people thought and if anything due to the special circumstances this year Sarr's has a good chance to obtain a waiver.

 

[UK90]

Tells us that the NCAA is approving more waivers than some people thought and if anything due to the special circumstances this year Sarr's has a good chance to obtain a waiver.

Please stop calling him "Sarr's".

There have been an amazing number of misspellings of this kid's name in recent days, but your persistent inclusion of a possessive apostrophe 's every time you say his name may be the weirdest of them all. His last name is just Sarr, not Sarr's.

 

[kl40504_rivals]

Please stop calling him "Sarr's".

There have been amazing number of misspellings of this kid's last name in recent days, but your persistent inclusion of a possessive apostrophe 's every time you say his name is the weirdest of them all. His last name is just Sarr, not Sarr's.

Thanks for the correction.

 

[rockout1]

Here is a semi-complete list of college basketball players who earned eligibility waivers in 2019. Links to each players’ Sports Reference pages are included as well. And this list does not include freshman that transferred and were immediately eligible. Based on the head coach being fired and the coronavirus issue I think Sarr's chances of receiving a waiver are very good.

Seniors (non-grad transfers)
Markus Golder, Portland State (via Valparaiso)
Lamar Hamrick, Portland State (via Detroit)
Jaylen Poyser, McNeese State (via St. Bonaventure)
Mohamed Thiam, Iona (via New Mexico State)

Juniors
Alex Barcello, BYU (via Arizona)
Chris Barnes, Eastern Michigan (via Tulsa)
Troy Baxter, Morgan State (via Florida Gulf Coast)
Tervell Beck, Kent State (via UNLV)
Khameron Davis, Weber State (via Pittsburgh)
Andrew Gordon, Louisiana Tech (via West Virginia)
Elias Harden, Jacksonville State (via Xavier)
Danya Kingsby, Bradley (via LSU)
John Knight III, Southern Utah (via Utah State)
Zeke Moore, SIU-Edwardsville (via Tulsa)
Donnie Tillman, UNLV (via Utah)
John Walker, Texas Southern (via Texas A&M)
Isaiah Washington, Iona (via Minnesota)
Shawn Williams, New Mexico State (via East Carolina)

Sophomores
Darius Beane, Northern Illinois (via Southern Illinois)
Shandon Brown, Niagara (via George Washington)
Michael Carter III, Long Beach State (via South Dakota State)
Karrington Davis, Southern Illinois (via Nebraska)
Duncan DeMuth, Vermont (via Oklahoma State)
Trey Doomes, Chattanooga (via West Virginia)
Myles Douglas, Saint Joseph’s (via UCF)
Amir Harris, George Washington (via Nebraska)
Brady Heiman, South Dakota (via Nebraska)
Chase Johnson, Dayton (via Florida)
Joshua Mballa, Buffalo (via Texas Tech)
Angus McWilliam, UC Riverside (via TCU)
L.J. Owens, UMBC (via William & Mary)
Jared Rodriguez, San Diego (via Idaho)
Omar Silverio, Hofstra (via Rhode Island)
Tyler Stewart, Saint Francis (PA) (via Binghamton)
Calvin Temple, Louisiana (via IUPUI)
David Wingett, South Dakota State (via Memphis)

Some of these transfers have no special circumstance that the NCAA should have approved the waiver but they did. I also did not include Chris Vogt, a sophomore at Northern Kentucky university. His coach John Brannen left NKU and went to Cincinnati as head coach. Then Vogt followed his coach to Cincinnati and received a waiver to play immediately.

Lol. How many different threads are you going to post this in? How many of these example are the same situation as Sarr....wait you can’t answer that can you?

 

[BlueVelvetFog]

 

[Yardeth]

Let him pick UK then we can worry about if they let him play next year.

 

[jmw23712]

Let him pick UK then we can worry about if they let him play next year.

If he picks UK, then he definitely won’t play next year. #NCAA