CSNbbs

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketbal...ip-waivers

First, the numbers. What follows are the overall numbers for all hardship waiver requests -- including, but not limited to, requests related to the health of a family member -- in Division I athletics over the past five seasons (April 2007-April 2012).
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Basketball

Graduate student transfer waivers:
36 approved
1 denied
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As you can see, the NCAA denies about half of all undergraduate hardship waiver requests, both in basketball and in football. Below are the basketball numbers from April 2011-April 2012 alone:

Basketball

Graduate student transfer waivers (2011-12):
4 approved
1 denied

Want to take a guess which one, the only one, was denied?

I have to believe there was something that was not made public, and something we probably don't want to know is the reason that transfer was denied.

(07-13-2012 08:16 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: [ -> ]I have to believe there was something that was not made public, and something we probably don't want to know is the reason that transfer was denied.

Probably true.

I will, until evidence is presented by Martelli &/or St Joe, believe there was no problem beyond the stubborn refusal of Martelli to "let my people go". The NCAA smply won't go against any coach who stonewalls instead of talking facts. Had Martelli spoken, then the NCAA would have been put into a position of evaluating his claim. As long as he clammed up, the NCAA was not required to make any evaluation on evidence so they backed the coach blindly. He is a member of "the company" and O'Brien was just passing through--here today,gone tomorrow. I would bet that in all the cases where transfers were permitted, the coach actually talked to the NCAA instead of stonewalling all communications on the subject.

I'm not sure how it's officially counted, but I wouldn't say the NCAA denied the waiver. They just didn't step in and overrule St. Joes denial

Martelli didn't stonewall the NCAA. It was the media he stonewalled and refused to discuss the matter. He got pissed either at UAB or O'Brien (who probably didn't soothe the matter by going to USA) and wasn't budging.

What surprises me in this day of twitter, 24 hour sports coverage is that it was never leaked out why he didn't budge. considering how many transfers Davis went after and considering the rumors around the Justin Knox affair, it might have been to UAB's advantage that he didn't go public.