In April, the former campbell Guard Messiah Thompson Listed in his dispute over a Big South ordinance restricting transfers to schools within the convention unless they participate in a redshirt season.
The strategy is half-baked.The Big South, one of only two leagues to back the out-of-steps rule, eventually reversed that policy later in the year.The bad: Much more than Thompson was comfortable waiting. It took a long time to meet, so instead of playing for his fellow Big South his school Radford, Thompson was induced to decide on a more hasty timeline to ensure 2022-23 qualification.he is currently receiving a scholarship Alabama A&M.
With the Big South no longer enforcing the intra-conference redshirt transfer rule, the Southern Conference is the only Division I league to ban immediate eligibility for intra-conference transfers in all sports.
That brings us to Honor Huff. The 5-foot-10 sophomore point guard from Brooklyn, NY had her one division I offer after high school.the school is VMIHuff spent last season at VMI and was an exhilarating, productive player and high-level teammate. VMI coach he was Dan Earl. In March, Earl chattanoogalike VMI, is played in SoCon.
Huff, who knew the SoCon rules when he made the decision in the spring, decided to follow the only coach who gave him the chance to play DI basketball. Huff was a member of the SoCon All-Freshman Team last season, starting 18 games, averaging 10.0 points and shooting 37.7%. He has been a direct factor in VMI’s winning team since his 2013-14 season. Ironically, his best game came against Chattanooga when he scored his career-high 22 points.
Over the past four months, Chattanooga has been petitioning SoCon commissioner Jim Schaus and league president to change its stance. The SoCon president has a meeting on Thursday, Schhaus told CBS Sports, adding that it doesn’t guarantee Huff’s eligibility.
“We’ve been talking about this topic, but I can’t say for sure. [on Thursday] The position of the meeting has been finalized,” said Schhaus.
Schaus said SoCon is the only conference attended by public colleges, private colleges and military academies, and represents multiple scholarship sports for men and women. That blueprint sets it apart from the rest of his NCAA. The league has also successfully fended off raid attempts from other conferences and has maintained the same ten-school, five-state membership since 2014. This represents the longest period of uninterrupted conference membership for SoCon since the late 1980s.
“This conference is really unique in that it emphasizes friendship and camaraderie like no place I’ve ever been to,” Schousse said. This group is very close-knit.…Not just this, but the big picture our conference has about things.”
The question is whether league presidents want to stay on the island on this issue, potentially alienating their programs in the process in an era of more transfers than ever before. mox. Schaus said no special session is required and the 10 presidents have discretion to overturn the rule or make exceptions at their own discretion.
“The hardest thing right now is not knowing what’s going to happen,” Huff told CBS Sports.
A source said VMI, at the very least, understands Hough’s situation, as this story has dragged on. Otherwise, the conference will invite a wave of criticism at a time when player empowerment in college basketball is at an all-time high.
“He was the only one who pulled the trigger and gave me a chance, and he gave me another chance as a freshman,” Hough said. “I really enjoy the coaching staff and it was an easy decision to move. I didn’t even think about it. Other schools are heavy.”
Huff said even if he knew about the rule when he transferred, he speculated it was much more common across Division I. SoCon has such a rule for intra-conference transfers When he finds out it’s the last league — and given how Waiver has been cleared.
“I feel it’s unfair and unfair that I’m the only one who has to sit in this situation.I don’t think I’ve done anything terrible or bad,” Huff said. “It’s a mental battle right now. We just have to deal with it. We saw it as a good opportunity, but we know it’s only a meeting.” [with this rule] It doesn’t feel good and it’s not something I’m looking forward to at the moment.”
Sources say that Schaus has acted more like a moderator than an instigator on the matter, but hearing him say the league’s peculiar stance is why the conference will change this rule. We don’t want to restrict intra-conference transfers, but we want to prevent tampering by not allowing eligibility for intra-league transfers right away.
Huff’s situation doesn’t fit that criteria, though. His coach allowed him to change careers at SoCon without restrictions. It makes sense that Huff would want to keep playing for Earl.
If anything, SoCon could choose to keep the rules, but allow waivers in rare circumstances like this. Now into October, Huff is still unsure if he will be allowed to play this season.
“Even on my phone and on Twitter, this person gets a waiver, this player gets a waiver, two transfers, even three transfers, it’s hard,” he said. “I am on my first transfer and I am doing what I feel is best for me. hoping.”
Chattanooga kicks off the season on November 7th. Charleston.
