Ree4
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Thanks, not looking for any credit, just was looking to share what info I had, whether it was right or not. I strongly believed it was.
Martin OK'd
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Ree4
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Nah it's cool, I understand the skepticism
ThunderHawk
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Well we used to have free and fair elections to deal with such things.
The nasty little truth of course is that the governed are really ultimately to blame.
Schmidlap15
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Rob, this wasn't your finest hour. You elected not just to say you were hearing otherwise, but that the information offered by the OP was wrong. "Your info is wrong."
Hubris.
Hubris.
Ree4
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The difference for Rob is that his people basically have to be willing to go on record because they know it will go public. Mine told me likely not knowing I would be passing it along
True, but he should also know there is a good chance people are not going to tell a media member the truth if they don't want the truth to get out.
The Big 10 ruled today.
What i said in my first post in this thread that a media member couldnt post the truth even if they knew it is totally confirmed. Pat Harty tweeted today that he knew yesterday but couldnt post because of protecting the integrity of the source. Its what he and Rob had to do.
So the real truth here is that the NCAA ruled some time ago, probably last week. Then the Big 10 had to approve it, where more than likely ole Jim had something to say about it and it was hung up there. But Iowa and OM along with your sources knew a long time ago and the reason the U waited was like you said from the beginning that it could have been waiting on the Big 10.
Geez GHawk, you should have just said all of that at the beginning of this post and it would have made everything so much easier!!!!
deanvogs
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https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/s...eligibility-iowa-hawkeyes-big-ten/1982836001/
Martin and his inner circle have known since Friday that his appeal for immediate eligibility was granted by the NCAA. That significant victory didn’t come easily; the Martin family had hired an attorney to work with Iowa’s compliance office to put together a detailed case on why he should be allowed to play right away.
During the process, the NCAA gave Michigan (his previous school) a chance to review and comment on Martin's case.
And still, it got approved.
The NCAA ruling came in last Friday. That is when all the smoke started to ensue that Martin was eligible. Since Martin transfered within the conference the B1G had to rule on it as well. I think Chad's choice of words at the end also tells us something that was a rumor.....that Harbaugh was pissed the NCAA approved it and fought for it to be denied with the B1G.
I've been wondering if the Big Ten had to go thru Harbaugh or at least hear Michigan's protests, if any.
deanvogs
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Look who had the scoop on Monday.
Listen, I don't have any inside source, but if you know how to pick through twitter and this site and another site, you can piece these things together. There was simply too many independent of each other fires popping up the Martin had gotten approval from the NCAA. Then since Martin transfered within the conference it has to go to the B1G as well, where it is typically rubber stamped. Then there comes some "rumors" that Harbaugh was fighting the approval. So it all really lined up and made sense this is what was going on.
Perhaps the sly old fox here was Captain Kirk. He let Ruddock transfer to Michigan and did not fight it. Perhaps this was seen by the B1G and/or folks at Michigan as not worth fighting as it would be seen as a double standard.
https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2015/03/kirk_ferentz_explains_jake_rud.html
Can't be true, he said at B1G Media days that all student-athletes should be given a one-time transfer, free of restrictions. I just can't believe he would be hypocritical about such a thing.
Can't be true, he said at B1G Media days that all student-athletes should be given a one-time transfer, free of restrictions. I just can't believe he would be hypocritical about such a thing.
He meant those transferring to Michigan, not from Michigan
hawkinn3
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Legend
guffus
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Of course one big difference was that Iowa did not play Mich in 2015, while Iowa plays at Mich in 2019. I wonder if KF would have still signed off on a transfer to Mich if Iowa was playing Mich in 2015.
