Lawson Lovering to the Transfer Portal?

[The Miami Ute]

I’m not certain what his take is. He’s played four full college seasons without ever redshirting and he doesn’t qualify for a extra Covid year. My understanding is that Lovering is entering the portal as a graduate student, and will seek a medical hardship waiver for an additional year of NCAA eligibility and will also consider returning to the Utes. I see little hope of this being approved but who knows nowadays.

[TomahawkCruise]

Yeah I was virtually certain that he was out of eligibility, but I guess there’s some hope for the medical appeal. I think it’s a bit odd to enter the portal when it’s uncertain whether you can even have another year. I mean who’s gonna take a chance and sign him if he’s not even guaranteed more eligibility?

He must be pretty confident he will get his waiver.

[GameForAnyFuss]

If Lovering goes to the portal, I calculate his chances of finding a D1 suitor to be 42%. In other words, slightly higher than his free throw shooting percentage.

Moving on, I’m looking forward to seeing what Jensen can do on the recruiting trail.

[utefansince79]

While his free throw shooting is certainly not stellar, he’s a good defender. But surprised if he can get another year.

[UtesRule]

I don’t understand how all of this eligibility stuff works now a days (so many exceptions, judgements, etc that have convoluted it…used to be so simple…5 years to play 4, unless you had a serious injury, you could possibly get 1 additional year).

That said, I’ve heard a couple of trustworthy sources state very clearly that he has a grad transfer year of eligibility remaining.

I think he’s done at Utah.

[Jim Vanderhoof]

I agree he’s done. He can’t score or shoot foul shots. We need a more athletic center. He would be a great backup for 10 minutes a game.

[Ute Dub]

I think he’s pretty damned athletic for a 7’1″ kid. Just needs some touch on his shot.

[D T]

He’s an above average defender, but a complete stiff offensively.

I like LL, but i’m ready to move on to an AJ recruit [s].

[The Miami Ute]

Dorian Singer also thought that he’d get another year and that was denied, wasn’t it? I guess that this is another one of those cases where a player tries to push the envelope to see where it takes him. Again, personally I can’t see how this gets approved when Lovering played major minutes in all four of his college seasons. Even in his freshman season at Colorado he played in 18 games, easily over half the schedule, and averaged almost 11 minutes played per game.

[TomahawkCruise]

The thinking may be to combine all the time he missed with injury across those four years and argue to the NCAA that he should get a grad year to make up for it. If so, I’d be shocked if that works.

[The Miami Ute]

LOL…that would really be a unique approach. But, when lawyers and agents get involved, anything is possible. Essentially, they’d be trying to convince the decision-makers that common sense doesn’t apply when it comes to “student-athletes.” Gotta love it. I’m not blaming Lovering for anything, since he’s just following his interest, but, in order to make college athletics a thriving entity, you have to have some rules.

[TomahawkCruise]

Yeah in the current age of college athletics, perhaps there’s a feeling that they can try anything – just throw some stuff to the wall and see what sticks.

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