one year delayed, eh cap'n?

[Benja]

The worst thing about this whole saga is it makes us look like little insecure bitches. That's not how I want my cats to look.

[kslim]

to the lawyers out there, are we looking a potential lawsuit here?

[Dugout DickStone]

We need to capitalize on this about face and use it to our advantage in recruiting like "hey, come to KSU.  We got our ass kicked super hard for denying a transfer that now we pretty much guarantee you a transfer.  Middle of the season transfer?  sure!  Within the conference transfer?  maybe wait a week please, but then fine!"

Kstate, where no reasonable transfer request is denied.

[Dugout DickStone]

to the lawyers out there, are we looking a potential lawsuit here?

are you asking if she has a "legal claim"?

[Asteriskhead]

who are agendites in the pocket of? It can't be Big AD, can it?

[catz]

glad to see gE.com helping to shape university policy for the betterment of all student athletes.  I'm proud of everyone in this thread.

 

[kslim]

to the lawyers out there, are we looking a potential lawsuit here?

are you asking if she has a "legal claim"?

yes, or a defamation lawsuit. i by no means know law that well

[steve dave]

KSU, you'll have to make us look like complete losers for a LONG time before we give you whatever you want.

[steve dave]

KSU, if you want to transfer you're going to have to make us look like enormous pieces of trash first.

[slobber]

KSU, if you want to transfer you're going to have to make us look like enormous pieces of trash first, but we promise to make that part easy for you!

[Benja]

Just let steve dave do his thing slobber

[sonofdaxjones]

Pat Bosco, Athletic Department Heavy:  So Leti, am I funny like a clown, funny ha-ha, do I make you laugh?

[slobber]

Just let steve dave do his thing slobber

My thing is following sd after he does his thing. If what you are telling me is to stop doing my thing, then... well,

[Benja]

Just let steve dave do his thing slobber

My thing is following sd after he does his thing. If what you are telling me is to stop doing my thing, then... well,

never mind carry on.

[Panjandrum]

So, now what do we talk about?

[Tobias]

So, now what do we talk about?

APR

[theKSU]

Realignment.

[Benja]

Did we sell our soul for athletic facility improvements?

[nicname]

We only really heard one side of this story. Well, we really heard that side and then a bunch of opinions stemming from it. K-State looked bad during the whole process, and would have either way, but couldn't they have made things better by just letting granting her the release when the threat of tampering that worried them was over? They didn't, and instead went through all these — unnecessary imo — formalities before doing just that.

I'm of the opinion that the original denial and suspicions could have been legitimate, and though I don't know the particulars of what K-State knew or what the law allows them to say, they could have probably communicated much better, thus leaving looking a little better in the end.

I don't think there was any way Romero would have ended up being denied all together or some very limited group of schools. The whole "Welp, we went to our iron-clad committee and man, we can't go back on the committee because they're like level 10 necromancers and the code is enchanted like five times, so it's super irreversible."

[Panjandrum]

Realignment.

Na.  That's dead.

[Branson Bound]

I still just can't believe that this girl wanted to leave KSU. Spain must be a weird place.

[captaincrap]

Regardless of what "side" you were were during this ordeal, we can undoubtedly ALL agree that the KSU Athletic Department looks giant a bunch of enormously incompetent assholes as a result.  There are no winners, except for the player who does indeed get her full release, and that coach who left who will probably land Leti now.  Go Cats!

Would argue that the University side is where the incompetency resides. Their committee denied the appeal despite a recommendation from the AthDept that she be released. They then refused any attempts by AthDept to override that ruling. They allowed confidential letters to leak. They put out a pissing-contest statement about how they are bigger than Athletics and their word is final. And throughout, they displayed a sad amount of public and private ignorance of how the world was viewing their actions.

Mistakes AthDept made were not doing a better job of publicly commenting on the reasons for the initial delay, and the Compliance Dept making a clerical error by misreading a name on a list. I understand the silence being based on a very real concern over student privacy, especially when dealing with a student who proves litigious. But the "cone of silence" approach, whether by Currie's advising or not, only served to allow Romero and her coaches to be the only people talking.

But the whole thing could have been resolved long ago without the University side stubbornly resisting any common sense exceptions to "policy", and in so doing, make K-State as a whole look like idiots.

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

Good to see you, cap'n.

[slobber]

I ate horse meat in Spain once. HORSE MEAT!

[pissclams]

it could have also been avoided by currie doing some legwork before denying her initial request and therefore never would have been sent downstream to the committee.