Angelique Chengelis of the Detroit News posted an article about the path it will take for Shea Patterson to be eligible next year after transferring from Ole Miss:
The key for Patterson and other Ole Miss players who are seeking transfers in light of the recent NCAA punishment, which includes a bowl ban in 2018 on top of the self-imposed ban this year, is whether the NCAA finds Ole Miss acted with “egregious behavor” when it allegedly misled recruits about sanctions.
If that is how the NCAA rules, players like Patterson, who will be a junior next year, likely can transfer without penalty. Transfers who are not graduates must, per NCAA rules, sit out the season before having eligibility restored.
Thomas Mars, the Arkansas-based attorney who represented former Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt in his case against the school, is representing several Ole Miss players hoping to transfer without penalty of sitting out a year.
“At this point, there’s no room for Ole Miss to deny it unlawfully kept the NOA (NCAA Notice of Allegations) it had just received under wraps for five months while the school misled prospects and their parents about how the NCAA investigation would likely impact the future of the football program and the goals and dreams of the student-athletes who ended up signing with Ole Miss under false pretenses,” Mars told The News.
