According to RCS sports Harrison Smith will transfer to Stephen F. Austin. I have to admit I am a little surprised since he was playing with the team at the Elite Camp. I guess Jai won't have to pay after all.
This is really surprising, since he only has one year left and really seemed to be enjoying his UT experience.! I hope he left on good terms and wasn't forced out. We are still 1 over the limit if/when Brown gets cleared. Maybe this is a sign that he is getting cleared soon? Wishful thinking...
This is not surprising. If J'Covan Brown makes it in Texas is still going to be one over, but that contingency too has been taken care of.
I hate that this happened as Smith is purportedly well like by the team. Hopefully he'll return to finish his degree at UT because from what I hear he was already pretty close to graduating. Hopefully Smith left willingly to allow for the scholarship and also get playing time in his final year of college basketball.
I never understood exactly why Harrison never really panned out. I thought he was pretty heavily recruited out of high school but he never got enough playing time that I ever saw anything special or terrible. Anyone have an insight? Am I wrong about his recruiting status out of high school?
Regardless of what the AAS says about his situation, Smith was supposed to be part of a package deal. Everyone that recruited him knew this. Barnes & Co. pulled the trigger on him hoping that it would materialize, but it didn't. We didn't get the other half of the package, and we should probably be thankful. But to reiterate what everyone else said, everyone loved H. Smith and I hope he gets some playing time and does well this coming year.
Sorry to see you go, Harrison. Thanks for the three seasons as a 'Horn and hope the shots fall for you at SFA.
DeAndre Jordan. Total waste of talent, though playing for Barnes would have been the best thing that could have ever happened to him.
this makes me he started to show promise at the end of this season, gaining confidence, and making buckets. However, with all the great talent coming in... Him leaving might have been the right decision.
This was the transfer I was referring to earlier in the week. It was known at elite camp that he was transferring. He's on good terms and it's best for all parties involved. I wish him the best.
What's the minimum hours he has to take at SFA? Just asking because 24 of your last 30 hours have to be at UT to graduate from UT. I would hate for a kid to have to take extra courses at UT just to graduate. Of course, I suppose he could take courses at SFA and just not transfer them to UT.
I doubt he graduates from UT unless he does it this summer. He has to sit out this season because of the transfer and then play his second year there. If he graduated this summer he could work towards his master's degree at SFA. But I have no clue how close he is to his degree.
In football at least, you can play the next season after transferring if it is your senior year. Is this not true for basketball as well?
That's not the rule, misirlou. The rule used to be a player could transfer after getting an undergrad degree from one school to attend a graduate program at another school without having to sit out a season, as long as they had eligibility left. I'm almost positive that rule has been rescinded by the NCAA at this point, because they felt like it did more harm than good. The idea was to allow student-athletes to do a year of graduate work on athletic scholarship without being forced to do it at the school they did their undergraduate work. In practice, the NCAA felt like players were using it as a loop hole to leave their former programs for more playing time, with the graduate course work having little impact on the decision. Mostly, I saw it used by quarterbacks. I don't remember other position players using it, although they very well could have, and I don't remember it being a big factor in basketball, where all the best talent is gone well before they're in a position to enter graduate school, and redshirting is a lot less common --- which is part of what helps allow a player to have enough time to get a degree and then enter grad school. There's also another rule which is still in effect which allows a player to transfer to a school closer to home for emergency purposes. The player has to apply to the NCAA for the waiver, and the school releasing him from scholarship has to be supportive. Elliot Williams is going to try to apply under this rule with his transfer from Duke to Memphis --- but that's irrespective of classification, and wouldn't have anything to do with Harrison Smith.
Additionally, that rule required that the grad program the athlete wanted was not available at the school being attended. But SLX is right, that rule is history. But Greg Paulus does have eligibility left to play football this fall and he's doing it at Syracuse.
