Lane Kiffin joins the #FreeCadeMays movement
Jeremy Pruitt is no longer the only SEC head coach publicly supporting immediate eligibility for Cade Mays. Lane Kiffin used social media to voice his support for the offensive lineman transfer from Georgia.
“Free Cade Mays! Feel for you Cade,” Kiffin wrote in a tweet accompanying the link to a Change.org petition in support of Mays’ request for an NCAA waiver to play in 2020. Vols linebacker Henry To’oto’o is one of the over 5,000 digital signatures on the petition.
The #FreeCadeMays hashtag was launched after it was reported that the NCAA denied Mays’ request for an immediate eligibility waiver. Undergraduate transfers, such as Mays, are required to sit out for a season without a waiver.
Support for #FreeCadeMays has extended beyond Vols fans and players on Twitter. ESPN’s Jay Bilas and U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett have also criticized the NCAA’s decision. Kiffin is seemingly an unbiased party in the Mays’ situation, though he tends to be supportive of his former team on Twitter.
Mays is appealing the NCAA’s decision. Mays’ lawyer Gregory P. Isaacs has told reporters that the appeal will cover Georgia being “a toxic environment” for the 5-star class of 2018 recruit.
Free Cade Mays! Feel for you Cade @Vol_Football https://t.co/V565SUykyC
— Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) August 19, 2020
In hindsight he should have never come here.
He was a Tennessee legacy and didn’t fit in our toxic environment.
We had just got by largely unscathed with the whole Justin Fields racist fiasco and now people are digging up our dirty laundry again.
“our” You must be holding on to a rock in your hand to say that word.
Wish his dramatic behind never came to Georgia.
What exactly about his situation makes him exempt from having to sit for a basic interdivision transfer like everyone else is supposed to?
If he wanted to transfer to TN that badly, he should’ve planned to sit and been surprised if they let him play right away. Not the other way around.
Franks to Arky?
Fields to Ohio St?
Daniels to UGA?
No rhyme or reason to how NCAA makes these rulings
Soloman transfers to UT plays immediately. Westbrook transfers out of UT, has to sit out a year. You are right; no rhyme or reason.
Franks was a grad transfer.
Sure they do. Fields and Daniels were not transfers within the conference and Frank’s was a grad transfer.
Within the conference has no bearing on an NCAA decision. He would have to get SEC clearance for such a move.
As I stated in an earlier post, the NCAA needs clear, concise transfer rules that apply across the board. Recruits could then take these non-wavering rules into consideration when deciding where to go to school and it might alter their decision.
If he was trying to go to Florida or any other SEC school it would have just died with the denial. UT and their fans think they are somehow special. No idea why.
If you mean special by sticking by our team thru good and bad instead of tucking our tails and running anytime it gets bad, then yes, our fan base is special. Thanks for the compliment.
Laughable comment from a bammer. Hello pot, meet kettle….
This reminds me of the court scene from “A Few Good Men.”
NCAA: Waiver denied
UT: We object.
NCAA:Waiver denied.
UT: Move to reconsider.
NCAA:Waiver denied
UT:We strenuously object!!
Did you give that same advise to Daniels. Please explain how a QB who lost his job gets immediate eligibility but not the lineman. It shouldn’t be a shock for a player to think he will face negative consequences because his father is suing the school. Not sure why not being good enough is grounds for immediate eligibility.
Daniels tore his ACL.
1. Do you know how long an ACL rehab takes? I’ve torn mine. I do. You’re looking at a solid 8-10 months before being able to run and cut again and that’s if your medical team is on their A game and you have no complications. JT was injured the first quarter of the first game. He already “sat” a year anyway.
2. Coupled with a pandemic and the PAC12 saying they are not playing football, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Daniels was granted a waiver. He was injured and lost a year. He would’ve been granted a medical red shirt even if he elected not to transfer.
None of the above applies to Cade Mays because Cade has a sorry excuse for transferring to a direct rival, not an injury that shipped him across the entire country.
So because Daniels got hurt and Mays didn’t is the rationale? You seem a little salty.
Where was the outcry when Evana Westbrook was made to sit out last year? And that was after her long tenured head coach was fired. Shameless and petty is how these people are acting. I am glad Alabama is not desperate for transfer help each year.
As my mentor once said to me, Oh, but you will be.”
Actually, we will be ok without him. But of course, a five star talent would benefit any team. Hey, even your’s.
Hey Lane Kiffin: Shut the h#%l up! UT does not need or want your help with anything you lowlife scumbag. Get back to trolling the campus for coeds and leave the Big Orange alone.
Amen and Amen. Lane Kiffen is now, has been in the past, and will continue into the future being the biggest JINX to whatever program foolish enough to associate with him.
Case in point? Everywhere he has ever been.
This is fact and can hardly be debated, therefore I say again to Mr. bigorange67,,,,,Amen
Your friend,
Butch
The far bigger question is why would his father try to, “i’m going to say steal”, money from UGA for what seems like a false claim that the folding chairs were
dangerous to him but not anyone else. After that, yeah, anybody might want to
transfer, but what institution wants to allow him to have his dad on campus, because he might fall into a toilet or knock himself out with a door that opens
toward him. After that, did his son actually play football for UGA ? Isn’t last year the year he should have sat out or transferred, and had he gone to a different division wouldn’t he be immediately eligible anywhere, and wouldn’t he be immediately eligible again to come back to the D-1?
This entire article (and the Mays transfer for that matter) is laughable. Let’s follow the timeline here:
Mays visits UGA, dad can’t sit in a folding chair and loses finger, Mays then commits to UGA (finger murderers and all), Mays make Freshman All America, UGA loses interest in Mays lil bro (barely a 3 star recruit and would never see the field) and doesn’t give him a scholly offer, Dad files lawsuit, Mays begins sophomore year as a plug and play lineman starting the vast majority of the season, Pittman leaves, Luke arrives names Mays starting left tackle for Sugar Bowl, Mays praises the Dawgs in post Bowl interview, Mays transfers…
So, it’s really hard to find the hardship here. One argument could be that they felt Cade would be treated differently since his daddy sued the school… But he was named starter in the Sugar Bowl AFTER the lawsuit was announced PLUS Cade committed to UGA AFTER his daddy lost a finger.. It’s complete BS. Mars is an attorney, he’s going to do what attorneys do.. And I will FULLY agree that the NCAA are a bunch of clowns (Fields vs Ford waiver says enough).. BUT, in this instance, they got it right. Cade, sit your coward ass down for a year and pout. It’s what you and your daddy deserve.
Red and Black til Death
Go Dawgs!
Well said.
As a UT fan, I obviously hope he gets to play. But hey, he could’ve stayed at UGA and started every game. He transferred, so he has to accept whatever decision is handed down. There was no reason for him to leave except that maybe he wanted to play ball with his brother, and that’s not a hardship. That’s what I get out of what I’ve read and that’s my opinion, like it or not.