also, lol at the athletic department trying to make the academic side do their dirty work while simultaneously and purposefully trying to make them look bad. the athletic dept could have released her whenever they wanted to. like, pick a day within the last two months. any day. boom! that's a day that the athletic dept could have released her. it's like magic.
Not when a final AD decision had been made, per the handbook.
Also, I misspoke, Currie asked the Committee to reconvene. However, it's quite clear that he thought there was tampering going on, then when he felt that the tampering issue had been resolved, he requested the committee to reconvene and grant the release. The committee has been a component of the transfer process for quite some time, not always used or needed.
the committee can't, wouldn't and won't reconvene, dax. that's why it was stupid for him to ask them to. if the athletic dept felt that their initial decision to not release her was incorrect, then the proper course of action would have been for them to change their initial decision. the whole letter to pat bosco and then subsequent changing bylaws or whatever is smoke and mirrors so they don't have to say "well initially we said no but now we're saying yeah".
it looks like they have a block policy to discourage transfers and make students think they have to stay or accept the offer of "hey stay one year and give it a shot and if you don't like it then we'll release you". this backfired on them this time, more than likely because shalin or whoever else that got fired told leti "yeah don't buy any of that. if you wan't out, you can get out. we will help you."
then you have the athletic dept running around weeks after the fact trying to make a pat bosco committee of professors or whoever out to be the final say and the only people that could overturn this. give me a break. it's patently false and was shown to be when she was released to middle tennesee st due to a "clerical error".
I don't get your take on the committee at all, because the committee wasn't conjured up just for this situation. Maybe I misunderstand what you're trying to say.
"shalin or whoever" . . . Welp, the "whoever" part is kind of important, because whoever (or is it whomever?) they are may have been the primary reason why the transfer request was denied. Again, you don't green light transfers if you believe that players are being tampered with. I know the resident worried little girls get all sphincter clinched if they think K-State looks bad, but I'll take looking bad if there's a possible tampering issue on the table. What's not acceptable is the other relevant buffoonery like the clerical errors.
Also, what is being completely left off the table is the possibility that Romero went to Currie the second time around and said all the right things in order to get Currie to change his mind.
Since we don't know all the details we can only speculate. But it appears more and more like this thing was too rushed from the start which lead administrators to believe there were things amiss and thus caused them to react in the way that they did. Hopefully the amended policy will mitigate these kinds of situations, and hopefully our current coaching staffs won't need to be exited out of their jobs for performance reasons any time soon.