NCAA denies Bamisile immediate transfer eligibility, Bilas blasts decision

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VCU transfer and Richmond native, Joe Bamisile, announced the NCAA has denied his immediate eligibility for this upcoming season. A Monacan High school product, Bamisile explained his decision to return home, which some speculated could earn him a hardship waiver that would grant him immediate eligibility for this upcoming season.
“I am very sad to announce that the NCAA denied my waiver to play basketball this year at VCU,” Bamisile said. “From an outsider perspective, I am another collegiate student-athlete moving from school-to-school. In reality, I transferred home to VCU because my father had open heart surgery, and since then has survived tw major life-threatening scares. This past year, the NCAA approved my waiver to participate at the University of Oklahoma because at my previous institution (George Washington University), I struggled with severe anxiety and self-isolation, and I needed a new environment to address my mental health challenges.”
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Jay Bilas is not wrong

I'm sure RamNation will support the H E L L out of Joe B. I can't wait to see him in the Black and Gold.

Also, kudos to Joe for being to forthright and honest regarding the myriad issues he's dealing with.
 
Half-baked Mcbride said:
Jay Bilas is not wrong

I'm sure RamNation will support the H E L L out of Joe B. I can't wait to see him in the Black and Gold.

Also, kudos to Joe for being to forthright and honest regarding the myriad issues he's dealing with.
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As usual the NCAA opened this can of worms with changing the no sit rule transfer rule. I am fine with that change but then to amend the policy to restrict two time transfers gives mixed messages. Either open things up for athletes to move freely or go back to the old policy. The waiver process is random as well. The NCAA seems to want to fiddle with everything. Heck, their rule changes in college basketball and football annoy me. People clown on Bam for his nomadic basketball experience but he did commit to places where the coaches left. One took another job and the other was fired. Then he had to deal with his father having open heart surgery last season. I did not expect him to get this waiver because the writing was on the wall with how they denied almost every single waiver request in football. I look forward to him playing next season. He will help and VCU will have a jump on 2024-25 with Bairstow leaving.
 
AlienAiden said:
As usual the NCAA opened this can of worms with changing the no sit rule transfer rule. I am fine with that change but then to amend the policy to restrict two time
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Problem I see is their is no one fits all rule other than "transfer anytime , anywhere or the polar opposite transfer once" that will not be subject to abuse or manipulation by coaches. The coaches were the ones screaming about the past rule because the decisions were inconsistent and many of them were losing players they had developed and were counting on for the upcoming season.

the element of the current rules that is difficult to have hard and fast rules is the mental health aspect - we all want to be sympathetic to students that have such issues and help and support them and if being closer to home helps that than fine (Joe in his note said that he went to Oklahoma to deal with the mental health issues of anxiety, isolation etc he was dealing with - would have thought he would come closer to home like VCU to deal with that, but clearly he did not and that was his choice) I understand that a family members' health could create a new mental health issue or simply create a newfelt obligation to be there and support his father and applaud the fact he did too and returned to Richmond area

I feel for Joe but if those issues are going on perhaps a year off would be great for him (not for VCU B-ball ). He can be there for his dad and also get appropriate counseling if needed.

as far as the comment on his transfers - he enrolled at Tech in summer/fall 2020, Coach Young was hired in April 2019 and is still there, so he was the coach that lured him away from his initial commitment to Northwestern to Chris Collins head coach ,(Collins was there for awhile and still there)
At GW Jamion Christian was canned after the season but according to Joe , that wasn't the reason he left but the issue he cited in his note that he needed to leave to deal with his anxiety and isolation etc

go rams and good luck joe (even if we have to wait a year)
 
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I get the disappointment but maybe..just maybe...this gives joes the bandwidth to deal with his academic transition and personal challenges in a manageable way before he steps on the court....
 
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