Covid year plus two years of medical hardship under the rules. I believe they would allow Khalifa his medical hardship for last year, but he doesn’t have a second year that qualifies as missing a season for reasons beyond his control. They will have to make an exception for him to play.
He does not meet the criteria as has been explained a hundred times. Maybe they will choose to cut him a break or will be made to cut him a break, but that’s what he needs.
You actually do have to produce contemporaneous records to provide objective evidence supporting the claim that a player could not play due to injury for the NCAA to rely upon in granting a waiver. And you also need a second missed year for reasons beyond control.
It’s technically called an academic redshirt. Basically you’re on scholarship but can’t play in games. Still academically ineligible, not qualifying as something beyond his control under the rules and not qualifying for the Covid year.
They’re going to have to ignore the rules or have the rules invalidated for him to be eligible. Basically they will have to say that his first redshirt was for reasons beyond his control even though the rules specifically say academic ineligibility does not qualify as something beyond his...
To be clear, you want him to be excepted from a decades old rule because you don’t think the rule is logical. And you also want him included in a rule for players who could possibly have missed games because of the COVID year, even though he couldn’t possibly have played in those games. And you...
If Khalifa were a UK player I’d be giving it a big what the hell just like I initially did upon hearing the decision. But when you actually look at the rules, he doesn’t qualify for a sixth year. He will have to be excepted from the rules in order to play. And I’m not sure what’s so bad about...
You can’t get a sixth year via medical redshirt unless you also missed another season due to circumstances beyond your control, such as another season missed due to injury. His prior redshirt was academic, and that is specifically stated as not qualifying as circumstances beyond the athlete’s...
A rule is a rule. It can’t be correct or incorrect. It can be a good rule or a bad rule. Or, in this case, a neutral rule.
Of course he should fight it. The NCAA always loses.
It never made sense to me why he didn’t take his scheduled visit to UK. Now it does.
Look, I’m talking the actual rules and you are talking feelings. If you want him to be excepted from the rules, fine. But understand that is what you’re asking for.
It’s not my argument, it’s the rules. The year in which he was academically ineligible counts against his 5 years. Then he played 3 seasons and sat out at Louisville last year. His problem is to get a waiver he needs to have missed two years due to circumstances beyond his control, and since...