This is getting ridiculous (SEC Office dealing with transfers)

All coaches, I believe including yours, voted on the rules for sec in conference transfers.

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All coaches, I believe including yours, voted on the rules for sec in conference transfers.

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There's no rule holding Gatewood up. Auburn isn't attempting to hold anything up on that transfer.

It's a rule, you don't get to bypass it. Sankey said as much.

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There's no rule holding Gatewood up. Auburn isn't attempting to hold anything up on that transfer.

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My understanding is Gatewood/Mayes/Otis are all waiting on exceptions to the rule requiring they sit a year when transferring to another SEC school. A rule, supported and voted on by all SEC athletic departments. How Auburn feels might influence them making an exception, but it is a rule they want to not have enforced in this case.

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It's a year of free eligibility. The conference is gonna look stupid as hell if they don't pass a rule allowing everyone eligibility this season and that may well be what the hold up is. Getting everyone to vote Friday on a one-time/emergency rule

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This should happen. It’s a free year for everyone.

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So still haven't heard from the SEC on Joey Gatewood (NCAA has approved).

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What could the SEC do if a team decided to suit up and a play a player who has been cleared by the NCAA but not the SEC? The player wouldn't be ineligible as far as the NCAA concerned, so what would be the recourse here? I'm sure there is something in the bylaws about this, but what it is? A fine? If I'm Kentucky or Tennessee with players who have been cleared by the NCAA, I may think about telling Sankey to shove it. And it really makes no sense why he's being so cavalier about this issue in this unusual season.

In a year where no player will be losing a year of eligibility, it only makes sense that the SEC should uphold this bizarre ruling.


Now what is stopping Kentucky, VOLS, Ole Miss, etc. from playing those players in a year where eligibility doesn’t exist?

Without no, yes doesn't matter. I personally hate the idea of interconference transfers. Unless you are a graduate.

The trouble is when you make anything the exception to the rule, the rule seldom holds up.

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All coaches, I believe including yours, voted on the rules for sec in conference transfers.

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There’s a rule about how long you have to wait for an answer?

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The rule voted on by member schools was that an inner conference transfer must sit a year. There has to be some kind of mitigating circumstances presented to the SEC for each individual player if the rule is to be waived and the player cleared to play.

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I know what the rule is. What's I'm asking is what happens if a school or schools decide not to follow it. What is the "punishment"?

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SEC maybe dicking around, because they could've easily called for another vote on the initial rule and choose to make exceptions for the 2020 season.

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Correct, and in a COVID19 affected season where even the NCAA said "frick it" and decided not to count this year against anyone's eligibility, what exactly is the point of Sankey being so dismissive and disinterested about this issue right now? He seems to say, "well, there's a rule, so I'm not gonna do anything about it unless the rule changes." That just shows laughable leadership on his part, not that I should be overly surprised in that regard, I guess. These petitions for waivers have been pending for MONTHS, and he's just been sitting on his hands. No answer, either way, just silence.