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This is a rather unique case.......and despite other "immediate eligibility rulings" -- this one is different and I cannot find a similar one where the kid was enrolled and simply wanted to leave because he didn't want to stay and play for the new coach at UTEP.
the kid is from Texas - so he's not going to Oregon State to be closer to home or family (like Tyler Smith), there is NO family situation or emergency that is making him transfer (like Jake Kelly), he's leaving ONLY because he wants to and he's even said so, and he was already enrolled at UTEP and receiving benefits of his full athletic scholarship for HALF a year!!!
Here's the details........
a kid named Eric Moreland verballed and signed a Letter of Intent to UTEP.
But when the kid graduated from his prep school in MID-YEAR,
he then enrolled at UTEP last January but did NOT play in 2009-2010 and planned to play starting in the fall of 2010.
BUT - when the coach left in the spring, Moreland also left school and transferred to Oregon State.....
ordinarily he'd have to sit out this entire coming year because of the transfer, BUT --
The NCAA has now made a nearly UNPRECEDENTED move...
they have ruled Moreland IMMEDIATELY ELIGIBLE....
claiming...that in essence his transfer was caused by factors out of his control - namely the changing of the head coach!!
"The NCAA also indicated that many of the factors that led Moreland to leave UTEP were deemed to be “beyond the control of the student-athlete.”
the kid is from Texas - so he's not going to Oregon State to be closer to home or family (like Tyler Smith), there is NO family situation or emergency that is making him transfer (like Jake Kelly), he's leaving ONLY because he wants to and he's even said so, and he was already enrolled at UTEP and receiving benefits of his full athletic scholarship for HALF a year!!!
Here's the details........
a kid named Eric Moreland verballed and signed a Letter of Intent to UTEP.
But when the kid graduated from his prep school in MID-YEAR,
he then enrolled at UTEP last January but did NOT play in 2009-2010 and planned to play starting in the fall of 2010.
BUT - when the coach left in the spring, Moreland also left school and transferred to Oregon State.....
ordinarily he'd have to sit out this entire coming year because of the transfer, BUT --
The NCAA has now made a nearly UNPRECEDENTED move...
they have ruled Moreland IMMEDIATELY ELIGIBLE....
claiming...that in essence his transfer was caused by factors out of his control - namely the changing of the head coach!!
"The NCAA also indicated that many of the factors that led Moreland to leave UTEP were deemed to be “beyond the control of the student-athlete.”
