Tara Davis transfers from Georgia

Or sob story is true and will also help her win a hardship hearing with the NCAA and compete immediately and also make the coach look bad...

AS her teammate stated, she lacks integrity. She won't make anybody look bad except herself.

Indoor? wrote:

Or sob story is true and will also help her win a hardship hearing with the NCAA and compete immediately and also make the coach look bad...

It is not up to the NCAA, it is up to the school. I thought you knew the rules?

Transfer rules are in place to protect the athlete and the University. Tara is following the process based on circumstances that as a family we believe that will be better served with a family support system.

Questioning her character? Hey I’m sure all of us can do better in that department.

Our child was an athlete on some of the USA teams Tara was on. I don’t know that she is a diva and I honestly don’t care.

What’s sad is that she and/or her parents didn’t expect this situation and don’t seem to be accepting the fact that the only athlete who would be granted an exception to compete in January, when the notification of transfer is in December is an athlete with little or no chances to score points at a conference level.

It would literally be a disservice to his team/school for an AD to grant this kind of request.

Plenty of athletes who are competitive and expected to score at the NCAA level are granted exceptions to compete WHEN THEY TRANSFER IN THE SUMMER/FALL.

If Tara wanted to compete this season, her parents should have known this. They have plenty of resources available to them; not the least of which is the NCAA handbook itself. Or she could have asked around or done her research.

There’s no shame in transfers. Plenty of families have athletes who sign NLI’s thinking the school is a place for them, where they can thrive, only to find its not a great fit after all. It doesn’t matter why. That’s between the athlete and whomever they choose to share that info with.

But she will likely need to redshirt a year if she doesn’t want to or can’t go pro now.

And her parents should have helped her more by understanding how businesses work and setting appropriate expectations.

(And who signs an aid agreement just to avoid a dead period, BTW? ?!! Trying to skirt the rules is what seemed to get her into this mess in the first place).

Just my 2 cents as a parent of a power5 scholarship athlete.

not close wrote:

Indoor? wrote:

Or sob story is true and will also help her win a hardship hearing with the NCAA and compete immediately and also make the coach look bad...

It is not up to the NCAA, it is up to the school. I thought you knew the rules?

Clearly you don't understand the rules...

If Georgia doesn't release her, she can apply for a hardship exemption to compete immediately and she will likely get it.

Think Shea Patterson playing at Michigan this year.

Indoor? wrote:

not close wrote:

It is not up to the NCAA, it is up to the school. I thought you knew the rules?

Clearly you don't understand the rules...

If Georgia doesn't release her, she can apply for a hardship exemption to compete immediately and she will likely get it.

Think Shea Patterson playing at Michigan this year.

The first appeal process (which she is doing now) goes through the school. The new NCAA rule still requires support of the school that she is leaving. If she doesn't get that, she's out of luck.

Exactly! She signed a scholarship aid with Texas, Petros sees that which 99.99999% of the time means she will be attending Texas and tweets good luck at Texas.

It's sketchy for her to sign that just to go for an official visit during a dead period. Also, if she backs out of that to go somewhere else, I think she'll DEFINITELY have to sit out a year - even if she wins the appeal with Georgia.

It also tells me she decided to transfer at the last minute, as she didn't visit any schools before the dead period started.

But I have a feeling that it wasn't just to do an official visit at Texas. I think it was legit and she'll be at Texas in less than 10 days.

There is nothing to sign when transferring.

sands of time wrote:

Indoor? wrote:

Clearly you don't understand the rules...

If Georgia doesn't release her, she can apply for a hardship exemption to compete immediately and she will likely get it.

Think Shea Patterson playing at Michigan this year.

The first appeal process (which she is doing now) goes through the school. The new NCAA rule still requires support of the school that she is leaving. If she doesn't get that, she's out of luck.

Yes the first appeal process, but if the school doesn't support it she can and will receive the NCAA hardship waiver. Instead of telling me I'm wrong, why don't you just go look up the rules.

Out of curiosity, what’s the hardship she is having??

Who knows and it doesn’t really matter. Just has to have one.

Countrywerks wrote:

Out of curiosity, what’s the hardship she is having??

Her hardship is that she is entitled, and the victim here.

No signing wrote:

There is nothing to sign when transferring.

She said she signed a scholarship aid with Texas in her instagram post:

Can someone explain what that means? All of the NCAA rules state that only incoming freshmen sign an NLI. What do transfers do to get some level of assurance? Is it this so-called scholarship aid contract that she mentioned? Is it just a form that the school prepared that describes their planned aid for her?

Indoor? wrote:

Were people bashing Courtney Frerichs and calling her a diva when she went to New Mexico?

What an absurd comparison. If Davis had graduated and/or left during the summer, she wouldn't be in this situation.

Indoor? wrote:

Who knows and it doesn’t really matter. Just has to have one.

So you basically want her to just lie and make something up to game the system. Real classy.

And it's basically what she's doing. Total class act.

basically BS wrote:

Indoor? wrote:

Who knows and it doesn’t really matter. Just has to have one.

So you basically want her to just lie and make something up to game the system. Real classy.

And it's basically what she's doing. Total class act.

Where is the lie? As a family we are well aware of the possibilities of Tara sitting . The coach and University are also well aware of her reasons for wanting to transfer.

For some it is hard to comprehend a situation that would lead us to this decision. This decision was not done in haste nor done without being informed. The decision is for the betterment of my child. No diva move, no publicity stunt, just putting her in a better position to manage the challenges that life throws at her.

When did Tara notify the coach of her intent to transfer?