Tim Byerly Letter

How was Bylerly denied a hardship exemption? What criteria does the NCAA use exactly? It certainly seemed early enough in the season.

You must miss 2 seasons for reasons beyond your control. Tim missed one for injury, one for transfer, and sat one with a red shirt. NCAA must have determined that there was insufficient justification to claim the redshirt year was out of Tim's control.

It's hard to write much more than that, you know how quickly crayons get dull and hard to write with...:cool:

The only thing sadder than uGA admitting a student who couldn't read is that it's so common the media chose to ignore it.
 
Tim was a great kid and certainly has the "Right Stuff" .... :biggthumpup:
 
This is another stupid NCAA rule. Players should have four years of participation. The elapsed time should not matter.
 
Please explain how being fair to the student would benefit Saban. There is still a total limit of 85 scholarships per school.
 
Please explain how being fair to the student would benefit Saban. There is still a total limit of 85 scholarships per school.
I think you would see the average age of his teams increase significantly. Since the term "greyshirting" is already taken, we'd have to find a new color to describe however he got players to deliberately not participate to get another year of S&C and physical growth, as well as time to study the playbook or whatever.

Certainly poaching talent from other schools, and/or getting recruits to go to a smaller school for a year first, would be a very attractive option since when they sat out a year after transferring they would still have three "participation" years left.

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Players already come in to Bama sometimes for a year without having a scholarship (greyshirting), if they can do so and benefit from the practice without using any eligibility, not so hard to get a decent rotation of 6th year players going.
 
I think you would see the average age of his teams increase significantly. Since the term "greyshirting" is already taken, we'd have to find a new color to describe however he got players to deliberately not participate to get another year of S&C and physical growth, as well as time to study the playbook or whatever.

Certainly poaching talent from other schools, and/or getting recruits to go to a smaller school for a year first, would be a very attractive option since when they sat out a year after transferring they would still have three "participation" years left.

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I would call the practice Cougaring or BYUsing.
 
I would call the practice Cougaring or BYUsing.

I really like the latter cause you could even put a face on that in the form of Gary Busey (in verb form).

"How'd that guy get a 6th year?"
"Oh, he got B(y)used"
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You could control misuse by requiring that anything beyond the fifth year must be in a graduate degree program.
 
You could control misuse by requiring that anything beyond the fifth year must be in a graduate degree program.
How would that control misuse? So the players have to be enrolled in a grad program starting year 6 -- they had to be enrolled in an undergrad program the previous five years.

Most schools have some grad programs that are easy to get into. They're not all Tech with its small and selective MBA that is willing to turn down football players.

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Most schools have some grad programs that are easy to get into. They're not all Tech with its small and selective MBA that is willing to turn down football players.


... which has happened for those that don't remember.
 
Why should Tech admit students to the MBA program without the scores to back it up?
Don't disagree. Just pointed out that there have been students that graduate but don't get accepted.
 
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