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From: Woody Bass <gatorrrrrr@gmail.com>
Date: May 31, 2014 at 8:39:24 AM CDT
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Subject: [gatornews] Orlando Sentinel - UF president Bernie Machen opposes graduate student transfers
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Orlando Sentinel - UF president Bernie Machen opposes graduate student transfers UF president Bernie Machen opposes graduate student transfers
By Edgar Thompson | UF Swamp Things, Orlando Sentinel
The Florida Gators welcomed high-profile transfers Jake McGee and Jon Horford with open arms this spring.
It does not take a rocket scientist to see why.
McGee should give the Gators the playmaking tight end the team lacked during a miserable 2013 season. Meanwhile, the 6-foot-10 Horford provides an inexperienced inside player for a squad facing questions under the basket.
But school president Bernie Machen is not so sure either athlete should be allowed to be Gators.
McGee and Horford are fifth-year seniors enrolled as graduate students at UF after receiving degrees this past spring from two of the nation's top universities.
"If they really wanted to transfer somewhere else, they should sit out a year," Machen said Friday at the SEC spring meetings. "Why didn't Horford stay at Michigan another year? Because he had a free pass."
NCAA rules allow athletes who graduate to transfer and play immediately at schools that offer an academic program their old school does not. Normal NCAA rules require transfers to sit out a season.
Machen is a lone voice in the wilderness.
On Friday, the SEC eased the restrictions on graduate student transfers without questionable pasts.
In 2011, the league voted against allowing athletes to transfer to play immediately unless they had two seasons of eligibility remaining. Graduate student transfers would have to endure a stringent waiver process, but the SEC decided to remove the requirement as long as the athlete did not have disciplinary or eligibility issues at his previous school.
"I think if somebody has already graduated college, they've already proven they're good, quality people, and if you do more background checking, I'd be supportive of it," South Carolina president Harris Pastides told reporters.
Machen, though, said it does not take a college degree to see what really is going on.
"Go to grad school at Michigan," Machen said of Horford. "They have some pretty good grad schools. It's really just a way for a school to fill a void at the very last minute or a player going to get more playing time without having to sit out."
Email Edgar Thompson at egthompson@orlandosentinel.com. Read the Swamp Things blog at www.orlandosentinel.com/swampthings. Follow our UF coverage on Twitter @osgators.
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