Tshirt eligibility?
- Thread starter andegre
- Start date
nope, they are not even trying this year, they are appealing to get a 6th year next year
It is more than just on the grounds of being a tough year on him. The reason he isn't eligible this year is because you must leave the prior institution in good academic standing to be eligible at the new school. He wasn't in good academic standing according to NW's standards but he would still be eligible according to NCAA standards. So I think it's a combination of that plus the traumatic year he had off the mat, that they will be pushing for a sixth year. They seem to think they have a pretty good case.
Yet he wrestled and stayed eligible all year.
Not saying it wasn't an absolutely horrible time for the guy but this doesn't seem like an argument as to why he can't possibly compete this year.
Couldn't the bad grades have come in the second semester, so after the NCAA season making him ineligible for at least the first semester? I'm not a expert on this so I could be way wrong and just throwing it out there.
Correct, He was not ineligible per the NCAA. He was ineligible by Northwestern standards. Northwestern is just so much better than us average Joe's that they hold themselves to a higher standard.
Give the kid a 6th year. What's the problem?
No offense (no pun intended) to the kid but if we wanna grow the sport of wrestling we do not need Jason Tsirtsis around for 6 years. Same goes for BS
Last edited:
I hope he gets it but not sure he's got a good case. The fact that he was willing to forego a Northwestern degree for an ASU degree speaks to the importance of wrestling to him, especially since he has already achieved his goal of being NCAA champ.
From what I read on Flo, he had to get a C in a class to stay eligible, and he got a D+. That's on him, and if he can't wrestle another NCAA match as a result, good life lesson learned and not the worst tragedy in life...as he already knows.
But I hope he gets it. Love redemption stories.
From what I read on Flo, he had to get a C in a class to stay eligible, and he got a D+. That's on him, and if he can't wrestle another NCAA match as a result, good life lesson learned and not the worst tragedy in life...as he already knows.
But I hope he gets it. Love redemption stories.
So no sympathy for the 2 major losses he dealt with over the course of the year? The only reason he decided to forego a northwestern degree was because they were not deeming him eligible per school standards ,his case is that he was still eligible per the ncaa.
That pun was flawless. Still, being a boring wrestler shouldn't have anything to do with him being granted a sixth year.
Have you ever attended NW? Becoming a national champ while attending NW classes is pretty impressive. Clearly he couldn't do both while dealing with all the other issues. He's a college kid. What on Earth could your problem be with that?
Did he just find out this year that NU was a tough school?
Why did he compete all last season if he was struggling so much with grades?
Why did he have to transfer? He had all summer and through the first semester to regain eligibility.
They didn't kick him out of school. This transfer decision was wrestling motivated. I don't think the NCAA should be giving additional eligibility for such reasons. Not a good precedence.
We don't have to see it. The NCAA has a history of not always being logical. Maybe he'll use whatever argument Micic used with the B1G to not lose a year. I still haven't figured out why the B1G allowed that.
I don't think he should get a sixth year based off the facts we have. I was just commenting that he could have let his grades slip below standards last year and still have been eligible to wrestle.
I was thinking it would be the same scenario as the one and done Basketball players who stop going to classes in the second semester. They know they are going pro so they go just long enough to stay eligible for the post season.
I had heard NW suspended him for his bad grades and that he would have not be able to enroll back in NW until the spring semester. That would have ment that he wouldn't have been able to get his grades back on track until after his final NCAA season.
If ^ is true then while NW didn't kick him out they might have left him with only one option of he wanted to wrestle.
Here's an article and then an interview from Jason himself describing his situation.
http://www.flowrestling.org/article/45275-jason-tsirtsis-transfers-to-arizona-state
http://www.flowrestling.org/article/45275-jason-tsirtsis-transfers-to-arizona-state
Yeah, he either needs to be cleared this year to wrestle or his eligibility needs to be done. 4 in 5, that's the standard. I'll go down with saying he doesn't have a good case for a 6th. I would say there's a case to say that if you don't meet school standards, but meet NCAA standards, then you should be able to go elsewhere.
wrestling is great, but that northwestern degree would be big. from an outside view i'd think take a year away and get that degree.
Similar threads
