The missing part here, Howeda, is that it is not simply the reasonable people at Memphis who need to make this decision for this year. The NCAA has to buy off on waiving its one year transfer rule, which I just think is a real long shot in this case. Mishandled or not by the U administration, their behavior was reasonable (i.e. waiting for the legal system to play out). I just don't think the NCAA will buy an argument that Trevor was treated unfairly by one of its member institutions and so can play somewhere else this year. Anyone telling Trevor that is either lieing, naive or making an attempt to buy off the NCAA.
Regardless of how Maturi responds, the NCAA has to weigh in and waive its hard and fast rule. The only waivers for transfers I can recall are for pretty radical scandal at the previous school (Baylor) and pretty severe family situations, neither of which apply to Trevor. I don't know how its system works, but I also don't see them ruling on a waiver request before Trevor transfers. Very few bureaucratic systems allow you to ask what decision it will make BEFORE you act. It is much more likely that they would say to Trevor or anyone else, "Go ahead and transfer and we will look at your case when you're done." That makes the decision for Trevor to transfer a very high risk one, unless he is okay with sitting out another year and losing a year of eligibility. Whatever one thinks of Maturi, his quotes above suggest he understands that the stakes are higher now because of the risk of losing a year of eligibility.
As torked off as he or we are at the situation, his best chance to play this year is at the U of M. I hope his handlers, including Tubby, are telling him that. I am with Bleed that Maturi should not need any more information to make his decision. He either is allowed to play or not until a decision is made. Regardless, Trevor is in a tough spot because I just don't see him being granted immediate eligibility at another D-1 school this year.
