Transfers Raeven Boswell & Ioanna Chatzlleontl
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You have to enter the portal by a certain date to be eligible to play the next season (unless you are a grad transfer). I don't remember the exact date off the top of my head, but it was sometime in the middle of May. If you are not in the portal by then you can still transfer, but you have to sit out the next season.
Neither Boswell nor Chatzileonti were in the portal before the deadline (and neither of them is a grad transfer), which is why they both needed a waiver, and why it was always likely that they weren't going to be eligible to play this year.
I think Ioanna situation is a little different, she transferred to OK St then changed to Pitt! Maybe the 2nd change to Pitt was too late!
I don't know the specifics of the transfer rules, but Loanna would have been another inside
player. She apparently did pretty well at Kansas.
Anyone know what made her transfer to Pitt, after having transferred to Ok St and
never even joining the team for this season.
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Right. What I think happened (and I don't know this for certain) is that she transferred to Oklahoma State in time to be eligible for this year, and then something happened there, I do not know what, and she reentered the portal and transferred to Pitt. So she has potentially two issues. First of all, was she in the portal the second time before the deadline to play this season, and secondly, you only get one "free" transfer and technically Pitt is her second. And a two time non-grad transfer has to sit out a year.
My guess is that Pitt appealed because she never played at Ok State and was arguing that that transfer shouldn't count, and my guess is that the NCAA doesn't see it that way and considers Pitt to be her second transfer.
Right, but by the "letter of the law" is it clear that neither qualify for immediate eligibility. Which is why they had to ask for a waiver. And with the NCAA cracking down on who gets a waiver they didn't get one.
I don't think they really thought they would get a waiver but decided to try it to appease their player and curiosity to see if any rule was going to change.
That absolutely could be the case. There really is no downside to attempting to get a waiver. The worst thing that can happen is that they say no, which means you end up right where you were anyway.
You also promised the player you would get it your all to get a waiver even if you knew inside it was unlikely. Good will!
