Is there any specific time today for a hearing, or is it just the ruling he is waiting for that could come today?
Mark Mitchell: Discussion Thread
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From what I understand, it can literally come at any time.
Agreed, heard it can come at any time today. The way I understand it is (knock on wood), he’ll get the ability to transfer, a window for that will open, and then schools can make direct contact with him. From there, what Joe Tipton said yesterday, it’s believed to be a 2 horse race between us and a return to Missouri
Someone with a little more political acumen, help me out. If a judge gives himself a deadline to make a decision, just how trustworthy is that deadline?
Imagine the ruling being based on what Mark actually prefers to do.
So. If the ruling goes our way, does the SEC punish us for the break in the SEC rules?
How could they punish us? They're not separate from the NCAA, which is a toothless association as is. They'll have to begrudgingly follow the ruling whether they want to or not.
Does the judge have to consult Comm of SEC before he rules ? He is a dirty word.
If we could exchange Mitch for Mitchell that”d be great…
Heard from Joe Adam's Mark Pope had a 3 hour zoom call with the judge yesterday.
Any chance Pitino slides in again and does his best BYU impersonation, like he did with Freeman?
I mean, anything is possible I guess.
Ready for reffing quality to decrease another 15% in our games
Sankey and the commissioners have to draw the red line at Kentucky basketball getting an unexpected star player. That's the line in the sand for Sankey. If this goes our way, I wonder if they just rooferee the officiating in all of our SEC contests this season.
Only 15%? They'll hire Higgins as a special consultant.Ready for reffing quality to decrease another 15% in our games
Without the other parties' counsel present? Why wouldn't they just have him appear via zoom. Or provide an affidavit if he couldn't appear during the time allotted and enter that during the hearing? That makes zero sense whatsoever.
They aren't bound by it but usually they try to stick to their word. It could've come much earlier too.
Im not familiar with this judge, but imo this was an easy decision one way or the other. I really dont understand putting it off at all. It really negates the entire purpose behind the immediate harm aspect of the ruling.
Maybe that is a hand tip that he isn't going to rule for the players? Who knows.
Exactly. They hate us either way so we might as well have the player too. Screw them
If they didn't want players to transfer to other sec schools they shouldn't have let Aberdeen, Mo D, Garrison transfer to different SEC teams multiple times. If they didn't want 5th year players playing they shouldn't have let them be in the portal to begin with. When they made a ruling after the portal, they made it be an unfair advantage to the ones who thought they wouldn't get to play. You can't have it both ways.
You know if there's one player that's going to get screwed in this new process, its going to be the star who's going to Kentucky.
You have to get a state order now
what he said, they have to have a state order or something
Really it’s not a bad thing just gotta have a state order which is why Mark filed in Kentucky
The 2022 players appeal continues on to the appellate courts, this isn't a final decision, but it undoes the Colorado ruling granting players temporary federal protection to transfer/play a 5th year.
In the mean time it will give the NCAA the right to enforce its current eligibility rules. Meaning the 2022 class loses their federally protected fifth season of eligibility under this stay order. This suit also of note does not include/promise changes to existing NCAA transfer rules, roster limits, or revenue-sharing caps that were already in place.
Essentially this is far from over as there is no final verdict in Wisne v NCAA. But in the mean time, it basically means, sorry 5th year guys, you aren't able to play college basketball (with federal protection) currently. States can rule individually on their own cases, and other appeals be filed, and this one, of course will continue on. It's a pretty big win for the NCAA though, no matter how it is sliced. May all get overturned later though.
What rule is this?! Like someone said above, Aberdeen, Mo D, BG, etc. ALL transferred inside the conference. Why aren’t they ineligible?!
Players transferring in conference (SEC) have until May 1st to enter the transfer portal and declare intention to transfer to an in conference school. Aberdeen, Mo D, BG all did that within legal conference rules timeline.
There are multiple instances currently of the 2022 class 5th year guys transferring inside the SEC, Jalen Washington for one, did so after the May 1st deadline, that is technically against that rule. The SEC has not, that I can find, came out and stated they will enforce this rule. There is just whispers that they might once the court cases with the NCAA settle.
That was the big court injunction that granted all 2022 players a 5th year. So now you can't count on that court order actually working out in the long run.
It appears the much smaller court orders (like the one in Tennessee that granted eligibility to a handful of players) is more likely to hold up in the long run.
Basically, school has started in a lot of places and nobody is sure which 5th year players will be eligible. If you're going to cut a $3 million NIL check for a 5th year player, there is the possibility that player will never be eligible. Some cases look better than others. But literally nothing is certain.
Just my opinion, but a lot of schools would be better off just saving the NIL money for future recruits.
Hilarious that the SEC has found a plan to punish schools even if court cases end up working out. But hey, if it's an SEC rule that means the SEC schools voted for it.
It made sense like 5 years ago when implemented (because the sit out a year when transferring to another school in the conference was a thing once), and this rule was to curb poaching players via transfer portal late in the summer from rival teams, once the instant transfer rules passed. Of course the member schools were going to insulate themselves and vote for this to keep from losing their star players money hunting from getting poached by the bitter rivals. They probably had no idea at the time this rule could be pulled off the shelf for something it was never intended for. But leave it to Sankey to find a way to put the screws to the SEC, and UK.
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