re: Owen Heinecke Case / Owen Wins! He’s Back!!!

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NCAA ends its questioning by telling Venables he’s “running a hell of a program.”

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Well that may be a concession of sorts?

Newville says Heinecke did not receive the “totality of circumstances” review, but the female athlete did. Says he does not understand why the NCAA did not apply that to Heinecke, as they both filed the same citing.

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Newville says he believes Heinecke’s petition should have been granted just as the female athlete’s because they are identical.

Newville says he looked for hours for the case in the database and couldn’t find it. Says it’s not standard practice to not upload cases.

The NCAA is now questioning Newville about Heinecke’s petition. The NCAA points out the only statement from Ohio State for Heinecke is that they didn’t have tryouts, but nothing about COVID.

The NCAA says the female athlete was affected about COVID and provided proof.

This was a great point from Mary Quinn Cooper when she got to the point of not only did players take advantage of the covid year and skip on going to Senior Bowl.

Those returnees would hinder Heinecke, but wouldn't four or five-star recruits who were already on their radar.

Nagy on what another year would do for Heinecke:

“It’d be huge for him.”

Says he told scouts back in August to start watching for Heinecke.

“To have that bigger runway, would be huge.”

“The NFL tries to avoid one-year wonders. Owen’s a half-year wonder.”

Nagy backs up Venables saying OU plays a lot of linebackers, so it won’t affect others. He also says the players in the locker room would welcome him back with open arms. Says it certainly wouldn’t be a negative thing for his teammates.

Cooper asks Nagy about another year would do for Heinecke’s legacy.

“Having a Sooner legacy matters in this state…”

The NCAA asks Nagy if Kip Lewis and Cole Sullivan would have less playing time if Heinecke returned.

Nagy says Sullivan could play a third position (cheetah), but it’s not up to him.

“That’s probably a question for coach Venables.”

The NCAA asks Nagy if Heinecke would take the roster spot of someone else and Nagy says no. They’d have a 104 player roster without him and the intend to keep that number if he doesn’t get the injunction.

Heinecke on what another season at OU would mean to him: “To have a legacy at OU is really important to me… Another year to cement myself … and possibly win a national championship — that would mean everything to me.”

Sorry, had ti run home and deal with a contractor.

Heinecke says he took the scholarship at Ohio State to play lacrosse because it felt like the only option he had. He says he would have walked on at OU at the time if the opportunity had been provided. He wanted to play major college football.

Heinecke says he spoke to Ohio State football coaches about walking on and to lacrosse coaches about redshirting due to injuries. But neither of those things came to fruition.

He says lacrosse coach didn’t redshirt him because of limited numbers on roster because of COVID.

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We will resume at 1:30 p.m.

Thanks for following along, everyone.