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Message: [QUOTE="leftytg, post: 2044667, member: 2651"] right, but Miami has to release him. The default is that he is bound to Miami. If you read further into the NCAA bylaws, a player must present a request for release to the school. The school has seven days to grant the release. If the school is silent, then the release is automatically denied. All the ACC bylaw stuff is just a red herring in this discussion. The question was whether or not Miami can block a graduate transfer. Of course there is nothing in the NCAA bylaws about intra conference transfers. Why would the NCAA care about that? The NCAA sets the rules for when transfers are permissible, and then conferences can make their own rules governing the particulars of intraconference transfers. It makes not one whit of difference if the ACC allows intraconference graduate transfers if a player does not meet the basic NCAA requirements to be eligible for a transfer. As one of the NCAA requirements is that the school granting the bachelor degree must grant the release, the fact that the ACC allows intraconference graduate transfers has no bearing on the requirement that Miami release Edwards. Bottom line - Miami is within their rights to refuse to release Edwards. Miami is within their rights to determine if they will/will not release Edwards based on where he plans to go. Now, to be fair, "within ones rights" can be very different from reality. Just because Miami can does not mean they will. There is often a public outcry when schools deny these (rightfully so, in my opinion). Maybe Edwards is influential on the team and it will hurt morale if they think he's being screwed? Maybe he has a sympathetic and compelling reason to be close to home? Maybe Miami is confident enough and doesn't particularly care if Edwards goes to Syracuse, even if Syracuse plays them? I don't know what will ultimately happen. I hope Edwards ends up at Syracuse if Dino wants him. But the one thing I do know is that according to NCAA rules, Miami has to release Edwards before he is allowed to transfer. It is NOT a situation that once he graduates he "fulfilled his contract" (so to speak) to the school and is, thus, a free agent able to go wherever he pleases. [/QUOTE]

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