{"id":3818,"date":"2012-01-10T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T12:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2012-01-10T08:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T12:07:14","slug":"ncaa-%e2%80%93-the-tale-of-two-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/01\/10\/ncaa-%e2%80%93-the-tale-of-two-transfers\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA \u2013 The Tale of Two Transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is a 1,000 yard rusher released from his scholarship, allowing <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2012\/football\/ncaa\/01\/09\/michael.dyer.arkansas.state.ap\/index.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2012\/football\/ncaa\/01\/09\/michael.dyer.arkansas.state.ap\/index.html', 'Michael Dyer');\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Dyer<\/a> to transfer from Auburn to Arkansas St., however a bench warming center cannot freely transfer from <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2012\/writers\/seth_davis\/01\/09\/Todd.O.Brien\/index.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2012\/writers\/seth_davis\/01\/09\/Todd.O.Brien\/index.html', 'St. Joseph\u2019s to Alabama Birmingham');\" target=\"_blank\">St. Joseph\u2019s to Alabama Birmingham<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O\u2019Brien averaged 1.0 points and 1.3 rebounds in 7.2 minutes last season for Saint Joseph\u2019s. He missed four games while the university investigated his potential role in a teammate\u2019s theft of a computer laptop. That investigation cleared O\u2019Brien of any wrongdoing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly O\u2019Brien, much like Dyer, had a falling out with his head coach.  Unlike Dyer, O\u2019Brien is not all that, but his former school is going to make him sit out a full year.  Just because.  Why?<\/p>\n<p>I understand that the NCAA is deferring to St. Joseph\u2019s wishes, but this is clearly wrong.  Once again the NCAA shows it has its collective head stuck up its ass.  Just amazing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is a 1,000 yard rusher released from his scholarship, allowing Michael Dyer to transfer from Auburn to Arkansas St., however a bench warming center cannot freely transfer from St. Joseph\u2019s to Alabama Birmingham? O\u2019Brien averaged 1.0 points and 1.3 rebounds in 7.2 minutes last season for Saint Joseph\u2019s. He missed four games while the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/01\/10\/ncaa-%e2%80%93-the-tale-of-two-transfers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NCAA \u2013 The Tale of Two Transfers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}