December 7 (day she announced it on insta). Heard she filled out the paperwork and then told the coach she put her name on the list.
December 7 (day she announced it on insta). Heard she filled out the paperwork and then told the coach she put her name on the list.
Timemachine wrote:
December 7 (day she announced it on insta). Heard she filled out the paperwork and then told the coach she put her name on the list.
Wow, if you announce your intent to transfer AFTER your team has already competed in an indoor meet, you should have to sit out a year. Georgia had a distance runner compete on December 1.
I can't believe Tara even has the nerve to appeal for an immediate release. She completely screwed over her teammates and she's worried about saving her own behind. Unbelievable.
??? you are overreacting. And many of you are.
She wants to switch schools for her own personal reasons. Many of you are way too judgemental on her character. This happens in a college program and also in regular jobs too. You guys are acting like this is not a two-way street as well.
There’s plenty of cases where a college coach cuts a senior scholarship to give to an incoming freshman due to performance or injury reasons. If you’ve been around the NCAA, you realize that just as many coaches will be unloyal to a lupperclassman because of various reasons. It’s just part of the business, but the athletes should “maintain the contract”. Why shouldn’t college coaches have to maintain their end of the agreement then? It’s hard to transfer so late in the graduation plan, so it’s just as unfair to do that crap as this.
If Tara wants to transfer, then she should be able to. If she has to sit, and it seems like her family knows that’s likely a predicament, so be it. All this “diva” stuff is overboard. Grow up, people make changes in life.
I believe that Iowa State let Kate Hall compete because the university was no longer a good fit for her, It would be nice if Georgia extended the same courtesy.... but again that would be too simple.
Girl Jumper Dad wrote:
I believe that Iowa State let Kate Hall compete because the university was no longer a good fit for her, It would be nice if Georgia extended the same courtesy.... but again that would be too simple.
When did Hall transfer?
I'll tell you. It was after the spring semester of her freshman year. It wasn't mid-year.
Overreacting? Have you seen her video lol? Asking for support to rally 100k against the coach and uga? Leaving in the middle of the season, giving a heads up after putting her name on the list when the semester was over? You don’t see anything wrong with this? Can you name another athlete that left mid year and was able to compete immediately?
Irby is ranked 1st in the 200 and 400. If Davis would stay put, they would have a shot at wining nationals.
Jko 7 wrote:
Overreacting? Have you seen her video lol? Asking for support to rally 100k against the coach and uga? Leaving in the middle of the season, giving a heads up after putting her name on the list when the semester was over? You don’t see anything wrong with this? Can you name another athlete that left mid year and was able to compete immediately?
Her followers are actively harassing Petros and the Georgia administrators with emails, phone calls, and messages, at Tara's direction.
Everyone that has ever transferred has done so for "personal reasons"
Schools can't take away scholarships for injuries.
Tara can transfer. But she must wait a year to compete. And she is being a "diva" and she should put her phone away.
The transfer/waiver rule is a covenant not to compete, not uncommon in employment contracts. It stops an employee from using advantages gained by their present employment against their present employer, at least for a long enough time period for the employer to adjust to the employee's leaving. If Georgia is seriously planning on winning the NCAA's this year even without Tara, and thinks that Texas has a real chance to beat them with Tara, enforcing the covenant (denying the exemption) is completely appropriate. If the exemption is being denied for any other reason, it isn't.
(Whether NCAA scholarship athletes should have the burdens of employees without the rights of employees is a different matter)
Jko 7 wrote:
Overreacting? Have you seen her video lol? Asking for support to rally 100k against the coach and uga? Leaving in the middle of the season, giving a heads up after putting her name on the list when the semester was over? You don’t see anything wrong with this? Can you name another athlete that left mid year and was able to compete immediately?
I believe Shae Anderson just transferred from Oregon to UCLA without restrictions.
Georgia is great wrote:
Irby is ranked 1st in the 200 and 400. If Davis would stay put, they would have a shot at wining nationals.
For the record, Georgia would have won the NCAA championship outdoors if Tara did what she was supposed to. Some other people blew it too, but a BIG part of the blame falls on Tara.
She was a full foot off of her long jump PR from high school and a quarter second off of her 100 hurdles PR from high school. She fouled 4 of her 6 jumps.
She knows if she hadn't screwed around all year, they wouldn't have lost by a point. Maybe she's leaving because of the guilt and the shame she feels.
tara choked wrote:
Georgia is great wrote:
Irby is ranked 1st in the 200 and 400. If Davis would stay put, they would have a shot at wining nationals.
For the record, Georgia would have won the NCAA championship outdoors if Tara did what she was supposed to. Some other people blew it too, but a BIG part of the blame falls on Tara.
She was a full foot off of her long jump PR from high school and a quarter second off of her 100 hurdles PR from high school. She fouled 4 of her 6 jumps.
She knows if she hadn't screwed around all year, they wouldn't have lost by a point. Maybe she's leaving because of the guilt and the shame she feels.
Great point!!
Track life wrote:
Jko 7 wrote:
Overreacting? Have you seen her video lol? Asking for support to rally 100k against the coach and uga? Leaving in the middle of the season, giving a heads up after putting her name on the list when the semester was over? You don’t see anything wrong with this? Can you name another athlete that left mid year and was able to compete immediately?
I believe Shae Anderson just transferred from Oregon to UCLA without restrictions.
If Oregon hadn't allowed it and Shae appealed she'd be called a diva too.
When you look like Shae and Tara do you're going to have a lot of doors open for you, but you're also going to have a lot of haters. That's the life of someone who is hot af and I imagine Shae and Tara know that by now or will soon enough.
That’s a crazy interpretation. If that was the only valid reason to deny someone, it would almost never be denied. What if Georgia was going to be a conference champ with her but still had no chance at nationals but Texas could win nationals with her? That still is unfair to the entire NCAA. If everyone allowed it, a bunch of athletes could always get together for senior year at the same shook to win nationals. It should always be denied unless there is a real hardship. This case rises to an even higher standard because of the timing. Maybe Texas just had a XC runner graduate which opened up some scholarship money that wasn’t available in the fall so she stayed at Georgia.
Too limited wrote:
That’s a crazy interpretation. If that was the only valid reason to deny someone, it would almost never be denied. What if Georgia was going to be a conference champ with her but still had no chance at nationals but Texas could win nationals with her? That still is unfair to the entire NCAA. If everyone allowed it, a bunch of athletes could always get together for senior year at the same shook to win nationals. It should always be denied unless there is a real hardship. This case rises to an even higher standard because of the timing. Maybe Texas just had a XC runner graduate which opened up some scholarship money that wasn’t available in the fall so she stayed at Georgia.
Your right, it has the stench of collusion.
Tara Davis seems like a lovely young lady and a very talented athlete with a potentially bright future ahead of her.
I remember her single-handedly bring Agoura HS to 2nd place at the CA state championship her senior year!
This is a transfer with many repercussions throughout the NCAA T&F Championship landscape.
Georgia has a very high probability of winning the national title with her.
Texas will have a far greater shot at chasing a title with her.
When coaches are recruiting for next year's team, they chart out their budget in recruiting, who they are looking at, and who they will aggressively go after.
I'm sure had Petros known prior that Davis would leave, him and his staff would aggressively recruit to fill her positions.
At the end of the day, she did this too late and went about it the wrong way.
It is a tough but necessary lesson for her to learn.
If she is transferring because she is unhappy, she must learn again that to get where she wants to be then she must sacrifice some more temporary happiness (in this case: sitting a year).
Making moves this public will potentially hurt future sponsors from investing into her and she can definitely expect her future pro contracts to have extra clauses in there to deter her from speaking negatively about her sponsors, sponsor-affiliated coaches, sponsor-affiliated athletes, etc.
It is a business. Yes, the NCAA athletes don't get paid but it is what it is.
My 2 Cents wrote:
It is a business. Yes, the NCAA athletes don't get paid but it is what it is.
Scholly/Room-Board/Meal Plan/Nike Gear/Degree = 'Paid'
Some 3d chess going on here:
Tara slacked off all semester and is in terrible shape, 20 pounds too heavy. She decides to transfer so she has an excuse for her terrible performances
Petros says she's in great shape so it makes the school she transfers to look bad when she performs like trash.
Zach de Mundo wrote:
Track life wrote:
I believe Shae Anderson just transferred from Oregon to UCLA without restrictions.
If Oregon hadn't allowed it and Shae appealed she'd be called a diva too.
When you look like Shae and Tara do you're going to have a lot of doors open for you, but you're also going to have a lot of haters. That's the life of someone who is hot af and I imagine Shae and Tara know that by now or will soon enough.
You are right, it is about appearances. Shae is white, Tara is not. Mystery solved. The entire state of GA is racist. NCAA is racist too.