All indications are that injured UL senior wide receiver Jamal Robinson will be granted a fifth season in 2015 as long as requisite documentation is completed and contained within a waiver request, a Sun Belt Conference official suggested this week.
By NCAA rules student-athletes are eligible for a hardship waiver provided they:• Do not play in more than three contests or 30 percent of their team’s completed contests due to injury or illness;• Do not play in any games beyond the season’s halfway point;• The injury or illness is incapacitating; and• Appropriate and contemporaneous documentation exists and is provided in the waiver application.
Robinson, the Ragin’ Cajuns’ No. 8 all-time receiver by yardage, has appeared in just four ULgames so far this season.The NFL prospect from Salmen High in Slidell at first missed time due to surgery to repair knee meniscus that was torn early in the season, and now he’s is out for the season after undergoing surguery hearlier this month to repair a torn ligament in his foot.
Robinson played in only the first half of two of those games before getting hurt, but by NCAA calculation rules – any part of one game counts as a full game; decimals are rounded up – that totals four full games.That means he will have participated in slightly more than 30 percent of UL’s games, whether it plays just 12 this season or if it goes to a bowl and plays 13.games.
30 percent of 12 is 3.6, and the NCAA rounds that number up to four – and none came in the second half of the season, .”There is precedent, in other words, in Robinson’s favor.Moreover, by a permissible alternate interpretation of NCAA calculation rules, the extra year can be granted because the student-athlete didn’t play more in more than four games and didn’t play in the season’s second half.
The question is, does he want to come back another year with a new quaterback and finish his Criminal Justice degree. I think Haack can throw the football better than Broadway.
I don't know how the injuries he had this year and only playing in 2 full games would affect his NFL draft pick if he entered the draft next year. Then he has to think about if he gets reinjured in college next year, he may never get a shot in the NFL.
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