AD Cusack opposes grad school transfers
Jan 4, 2007 2:38:45 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Jan 4, 2007 2:38:45 GMT -5
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WSU INSIDER
AD Cusack opposes grad school transfers
By Marc Katz
Staff Writer
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Sure Wright State University Athletic Director Mike Cusack is going to Orlando, Fla., this weekend for the annual NCAA convention.
He says he's not going for the sun, either. He wants to vote, and the biggest issue at hand is proposal No. 2005-54.
Get this. If a student-athlete graduates in any sport and has eligibility remaining within the usual five-year window — and wants to go to graduate school some place else — he or she could go without sitting out.
Already, students may transfer in any sport other than football, men's and women's basketball and men's ice hockey, before they graduate and without sitting out.
In those other sports, athletes must sit out a transfer year for fear coaches will actively recruit a player off someone else's campus.
The transfer rule was established to inhibit that.
Cusack doesn't think the proposed rule would create a long line of transfers, but he can think of potential harm even to WSU.
Recently, WSU standout basketball player Vernard Hollins had an extra year of eligibility after he graduated. He enrolled in WSU's grad school to play his senior year. Had this new proposal been in place, Hollins could have played anywhere, and plenty of schools would have been interested.
"This could be, on the face of it, a good idea," Cusack said. "Maybe that's the way it should be. If a student from around here graduated and found a good graduate program in, say, New Hampshire, why shouldn't we let that student go? But let's look at the implementation of it.
"It sounds great. It's an opportunity for the student. But there's not a lot of trust on my part."
That's because New Hampshire probably wasn't going to lure Hollins up there. Maybe a MAC school, or even an Ohio State type, might have. And with football involved, didn't OSU's Troy Smith graduate before this last season began?
Still, the NCAA's Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet "unanimously supports Proposal No. 2005-54. In the spirit of student-athlete well-being, student-athletes that complete their degrees and have eligibility remaining should be able to transfer and enroll in the graduate program of their choice without NCAA transfer restrictions."
The mid-majors are the schools that want to block this legislation.
What can happen at the convention is an override, which is enough negative votes from the rank-and-file to block the proposal.
"There are a lot of good elements to it," Cusack said, "but I'm going to vote to override it. I'd like to see more discussion on it."
He didn't rule out catching some sun after that.
Contact this reporter at 937-225-2157
or mkatz@DaytonDailyNews.com.
WSU INSIDER
AD Cusack opposes grad school transfers
By Marc Katz
Staff Writer
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Sure Wright State University Athletic Director Mike Cusack is going to Orlando, Fla., this weekend for the annual NCAA convention.
He says he's not going for the sun, either. He wants to vote, and the biggest issue at hand is proposal No. 2005-54.
Get this. If a student-athlete graduates in any sport and has eligibility remaining within the usual five-year window — and wants to go to graduate school some place else — he or she could go without sitting out.
Already, students may transfer in any sport other than football, men's and women's basketball and men's ice hockey, before they graduate and without sitting out.
In those other sports, athletes must sit out a transfer year for fear coaches will actively recruit a player off someone else's campus.
The transfer rule was established to inhibit that.
Cusack doesn't think the proposed rule would create a long line of transfers, but he can think of potential harm even to WSU.
Recently, WSU standout basketball player Vernard Hollins had an extra year of eligibility after he graduated. He enrolled in WSU's grad school to play his senior year. Had this new proposal been in place, Hollins could have played anywhere, and plenty of schools would have been interested.
"This could be, on the face of it, a good idea," Cusack said. "Maybe that's the way it should be. If a student from around here graduated and found a good graduate program in, say, New Hampshire, why shouldn't we let that student go? But let's look at the implementation of it.
"It sounds great. It's an opportunity for the student. But there's not a lot of trust on my part."
That's because New Hampshire probably wasn't going to lure Hollins up there. Maybe a MAC school, or even an Ohio State type, might have. And with football involved, didn't OSU's Troy Smith graduate before this last season began?
Still, the NCAA's Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet "unanimously supports Proposal No. 2005-54. In the spirit of student-athlete well-being, student-athletes that complete their degrees and have eligibility remaining should be able to transfer and enroll in the graduate program of their choice without NCAA transfer restrictions."
The mid-majors are the schools that want to block this legislation.
What can happen at the convention is an override, which is enough negative votes from the rank-and-file to block the proposal.
"There are a lot of good elements to it," Cusack said, "but I'm going to vote to override it. I'd like to see more discussion on it."
He didn't rule out catching some sun after that.
Contact this reporter at 937-225-2157
or mkatz@DaytonDailyNews.com.
