Veazy Twitter: In Regards To The Renardo Sidney Saga..........
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<div class="story_item_headline">Jackson Hopes for Resolution by Week's End</div><div class="story_item_info"><div class="story_item_author">by <font color="#000000">bradlocke</font></div></div><div class="story_item_content"><div style="FLOAT: left"><div class="story_item_images"><div class="newline"></div></div></div>
I had a nice, long conversation with Don Jackson this afternoon, and he fired back at the <span class="caps">NCAA</span>, which in a statement earlier today said he was ignorant of the Amateurism Certification Process and that speculating on a timeline for a resolution to the Renardo Sidney investigation was “premature.”</p>
Jackson is quite optimistic, though.</p>
“Quite possibly within the next two to three days,” he said. “Tomorrow I think will be a huge leap. I think that’s very realistic.”</p>
Jackson said <span class="caps">MSU</span> did not appeal anything contained in the final statement of facts, which was issued Tuesday by the NCAA’s Amateurism Fact-Finding Committee. So the information has now been forwarded to an interpretive staff to determine if any violations have indeed occurred. And if any are – the most likely ones in this case would have to do with Sidney receiving Reebok gear and/or an unofficial visit to two schools paid for by a family friend – then the reinstatement process would begin. That, Jackson said, would take “a day or so.”</p>
So, Jackson believes we should know something definitive no later than early next week.</p>
“Best-case scenario it would be tomorrow. Does that mean that he’ll be cleared tomorrow, if they find no violations? Quite possibly, he could be.”</p>
<span class="caps">MSU</span> is on the road tomorrow at Arkansas. By the way, it’s been decided that the game will remain an 8 p.m. tipoff; there were talks of moving it up due to weather concerns. Even if he were cleared tomorrow, since the team’s already left town, Sidney would not play. He does not travel with the team.</p>
As for the <span class="caps">NCAA</span> saying Jackson doesn’t understand the certification process and did not submit all requested information in a timely manner, he said, “Really, this whole thing just demonstrates how close-minded and, candidly, inexperienced, bordering on flagrantly ignorant some of these investigators are.”</p>
He pointed out that an affidavit from someone on behalf of Sidney was given to the <span class="caps">NCAA</span> in either May or June, and that person was not interviewed by the Eligibility Center until December.</p>
“Throughout this process, these people have played games with this family and with their lives,” Jackson said. “This case has been just a distortion of this whole process. It’s not going to benefit Renardo Sidney, and it’s not going to benefit Patricia Sidney, but it’s my hope that the <span class="caps">NCAA</span> membership will look at this initial eligibilty process and modify it in the future.”</p></div>
I had a nice, long conversation with Don Jackson this afternoon, and he fired back at the <span class="caps">NCAA</span>, which in a statement earlier today said he was ignorant of the Amateurism Certification Process and that speculating on a timeline for a resolution to the Renardo Sidney investigation was “premature.”</p>
Jackson is quite optimistic, though.</p>
“Quite possibly within the next two to three days,” he said. “Tomorrow I think will be a huge leap. I think that’s very realistic.”</p>
Jackson said <span class="caps">MSU</span> did not appeal anything contained in the final statement of facts, which was issued Tuesday by the NCAA’s Amateurism Fact-Finding Committee. So the information has now been forwarded to an interpretive staff to determine if any violations have indeed occurred. And if any are – the most likely ones in this case would have to do with Sidney receiving Reebok gear and/or an unofficial visit to two schools paid for by a family friend – then the reinstatement process would begin. That, Jackson said, would take “a day or so.”</p>
So, Jackson believes we should know something definitive no later than early next week.</p>
“Best-case scenario it would be tomorrow. Does that mean that he’ll be cleared tomorrow, if they find no violations? Quite possibly, he could be.”</p>
<span class="caps">MSU</span> is on the road tomorrow at Arkansas. By the way, it’s been decided that the game will remain an 8 p.m. tipoff; there were talks of moving it up due to weather concerns. Even if he were cleared tomorrow, since the team’s already left town, Sidney would not play. He does not travel with the team.</p>
As for the <span class="caps">NCAA</span> saying Jackson doesn’t understand the certification process and did not submit all requested information in a timely manner, he said, “Really, this whole thing just demonstrates how close-minded and, candidly, inexperienced, bordering on flagrantly ignorant some of these investigators are.”</p>
He pointed out that an affidavit from someone on behalf of Sidney was given to the <span class="caps">NCAA</span> in either May or June, and that person was not interviewed by the Eligibility Center until December.</p>
“Throughout this process, these people have played games with this family and with their lives,” Jackson said. “This case has been just a distortion of this whole process. It’s not going to benefit Renardo Sidney, and it’s not going to benefit Patricia Sidney, but it’s my hope that the <span class="caps">NCAA</span> membership will look at this initial eligibilty process and modify it in the future.”</p></div>
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I think he will be cleared and become a starter by mid-February. We win the West and beat UK at home...
“Really, this whole thing just demonstrates how close-minded and, candidly, inexperienced, bordering on flagrantly ignorant some of these investigators are.
Wow. Talk about firing back.
Wow. Talk about firing back.
it is easy to say sitting here though - - the NCAA may have been so absurd to deal with and clearly planning to stonewall the process that he was forced into more of a hardball position to pressure them to move--who knows, but my experience tells me that it's a whole lot easier to get bureaucrats to help youwhen you are working with them vs. trying to make them look like satan on a bad day (in the press for everyone to read).