wright transfers to Northern Kentucky

[jacojdm]

I don't recall this being posted before.
i guess steve is going to use that fourth year...
http://www.nku.edu/~athletics/MBasketba ... right.html

[Warthog]

I'm a little surprised. I thought it was just time for Steven to get his degree and move on with his life.

[ZiggyZoomba]

Wow... sounds like they have a great tradition there... lol

"We haven’t had a guard like Steven who can steal the ball and go down and dunk it on a regular basis in a long time...” Bezold said.

In all seriousness, I wish Steven nothing but the best!!

[BGorDeath]

He had one last chance to stay at BG and didn't.

[BGSU33]

"We haven’t had a guard like Steven who can steal the ball and go down and dunk it on a regular basis in a long time...” Bezold said.

Neither have we!!!

[Metz]

I'm a little surprised. I thought it was just time for Steven to get his degree and move on with his life.

He's trying to do so. But a degree costs money and sometimes people don't have it. I think this is the best thing for him personally.

[Bleeding Orange]

I'm a little surprised. I thought it was just time for Steven to get his degree and move on with his life.

He's trying to do so. But a degree costs money and sometimes people don't have it. I think this is the best thing for him personally.

Perhaps he should have taken that into account before he threw a pissy fit and left the team thinking he could just waltz back when he cared to?

[Flipper]

You mean like his coach did?

[Metz]

Perhaps he should have taken that into account before he threw a pissy fit and left the team thinking he could just waltz back when he cared to?

You don't know what you're talking about.

[BleedOrange]

Perhaps he should have taken that into account before he threw a pissy fit and left the team thinking he could just waltz back when he cared to?

You don't know what you're talking about.

So fill us in, Metz!

[Metz]

So fill us in, Metz!

There is no need. Form your own judgements as you wish. I just don't find it appropriate to bash a student for no real reason.

[Jacobs4Heisman]

I don't have any problems bashing NKU students.....or Northern Iowa students, or OSU students, or knife salesmen.....

[Falconboy]

Good luck on this lateral move Steven. I woulda thought Steven woulda tried to get on at least a Div.1A school. But whatever , good luck to him.

[jacojdm]

Good luck on this lateral move Steven. I woulda thought Steven woulda tried to get on at least a Div.1A school. But whatever , good luck to him.

1) there is no division IA in basketball. the A and AA are football only designations.
2) transferring to another division I school would have meant steven would sit out ANOTHER year. if he wants to play now, he had to move down.

[transfer2BGSU]

Good luck on this lateral move Steven. I woulda thought Steven woulda tried to get on at least a Div.1A school. But whatever , good luck to him.

If he graduates in August (as reported this morning from another source), then he is not eligible to play for a NCAA D-I program EXCEPT for BGSU. By moving down to another division, he is eligible to play immediately.


Graduate Student Eligibility

A student-athlete who is enrolled in a graduate or professional school of the college or university which he/she previously attended as an undergraduate student may participate in intercollegiate athletics, provided he/she has eligibility remaining and is within five calendar years of initial full-time collegiate enrollment for Division I and within the first ten full-time semesters of collegiate enrollment for Divisions II and III.

A student-athlete who has eligibility remaining and is within the specified five-year or ten-semester period also may participate while enrolled in a graduate or professional school at a Division I or II college or university other than the institution at which he/she completed an undergraduate degree, provided he/she meets the criteria of the one-time transfer exception to the general transfer residence requirement. That exception is as follows:

o The student-athlete must be seeking to participate in a sport other than Division I football, basketball and men's ice hockey, except that a student-athlete who seeks to participate in Division I-AA football may use this exception only if transferring from a Division I-A program.
o The student-athlete may not have transferred previously from another four-year institution unless he/she transferred previously and received an exception to the transfer residence requirement because his/her institution either discontinued the sport or did not sponsor the sport in which the student-athlete is a participant.
o The student must have been in good academic standing and eligible to compete had he/she decided to remain at the previous institution.
o The student-athlete's previous institution must certify in writing that it has no objection to the student-athlete being granted an exception to the transfer residence requirement.

NOTE: This exception does not apply to a student-athlete who attends a Division III institution for graduate school, unless the student-athlete is attending the same institution at which he/she was an undergraduate.

NOTE: If the student-athlete transfers to the certifying institution from a Division III member institution and meets the above-mentioned conditions, he or she may be eligible to compete but may not receive athletically related financial aid during that year.

http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/members ... ligibility