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Post by stevehorn on Jan 15, 2020 10:51:04 GMT -5
Did she sign her LOI? Feel free to elaborate . . . I know someone close to the whole situation with parra and what I was told is that parra is 100% committed to Texas and could be starting in the spring. As far as the LOI they said signing a LOI is not required by the athlete a LOI is just a signature saying that athlete recruiting process is over and will not be recruited by anyone else. Not saying parra will not sign one but if she doesn't it does not mean she is not committed to Texas. Its really up to the coach if he wants a player to sign one so I don't know if jerrit elliot told her it's required or probably has not mentioned it to her but it is not required. The only thing required is the financial part of the scholarship Since classes start on Tuesday, getting kinda late to say Parra "could" start in the spring. To do that, there is a lot of work to be completed that doesn't appear to be even started.
You are correct that she doesn't have to sign an LOI, but to be a scholarship athlete, her paperwork must have been submitted to the NCAA CLearinghouse. If she intends to be a scholarship athlete this spring, it would be pretty sloppy to not have financial aid papers signed since this is the guarantee of scholarship by the school. Typically the LOI is signed at the same time.
Not sure the person close to you understands the process. This reads as she is not entering this process unless this person left out a lot of facts.
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Post by eotexas5 on Jan 15, 2020 10:54:34 GMT -5
I do wonder if the international aspect of Parra allows for the situation to be less formal? I remember it felt like Luketic just randomly showed up one day and was on scholarship and no one knew she was coming. So I know Miller at Nebraska is transferring out and she was on scholarship. I think they're trying to make space for Fleck, if she does end up choosing Nebraska. I wonder if Peterson is considering transferring? It sounds as though JE has essentially offered Fleck a scholarship so I would be interested to see any effects of her choosing Texas over NE/Wisc/the Pac 12 teams. Miller’s scholarship ran out this year. She was on a 2/4 scholarship. so I assume an incoming freshman likely has a partial scholarship to replace miller’s. Idk how they are gonna make room for fleck to be on scholarship but I’m sure they’ll find a way What's a 2/4 scholarship? She was a sophomore this year, yes?
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Post by stevehorn on Jan 15, 2020 10:56:10 GMT -5
I do wonder if the international aspect of Parra allows for the situation to be less formal? I remember it felt like Luketic just randomly showed up one day and was on scholarship and no one knew she was coming. Same process for international. We have a lot of international athletes in other sports.
If there is no media following the process, very easy for that type of situation. She just needs to sign her paperwork and have it submitted to the NCAA.
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Post by stanfordvb on Jan 15, 2020 10:57:05 GMT -5
Miller’s scholarship ran out this year. She was on a 2/4 scholarship. so I assume an incoming freshman likely has a partial scholarship to replace miller’s. Idk how they are gonna make room for fleck to be on scholarship but I’m sure they’ll find a way What's a 2/4 scholarship? She was a sophomore this year, yes? 2 out of 4 years. So she was on scholarship these first two years and no she is no longer on scholarship if she continued to be on the team. She was offered 50% scholarship when she committed
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Post by horns1 on Jan 15, 2020 11:09:02 GMT -5
I have no idea how Nebraska "juggles" their scholarships from one year to the next, but Miller was the #55 recruit coming out of high school. If I'm not mistaken, she was on scholarship her freshman season, and for the Fall of 2019 (sophomore season). She entered the portal yesterday, but is still on scholarship for the remainder of the Spring semester (according to article I read yesterday).
P5 conference schools agreed that revoking of scholarships (without just cause) would not be allowed; scholarships are for four years (assuming the student athlete began their college career on scholarship). I know Nebraska fans are stating that her 'ship "expired" this semester, and was not going to be given one for her final two seasons. But, that goes against how the "four-year" scholarships are supposed to work. Most likely, she was told recently that since she didn't beat out freshman Kenzie Knuckles this past season for the Libero spot, and that Nebraska was going to pursue other back row players via transfer, her playing time in 2020 would be scarce. When you tell an upperclassmen competitor that their playing time is going to decrease, that's usually the trigger for them to consider transferring.
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Post by texastothehouse15 on Jan 15, 2020 11:10:06 GMT -5
I know someone close to the whole situation with parra and what I was told is that parra is 100% committed to Texas and could be starting in the spring. As far as the LOI they said signing a LOI is not required by the athlete a LOI is just a signature saying that athlete recruiting process is over and will not be recruited by anyone else. Not saying parra will not sign one but if she doesn't it does not mean she is not committed to Texas. Its really up to the coach if he wants a player to sign one so I don't know if jerrit elliot told her it's required or probably has not mentioned it to her but it is not required. The only thing required is the financial part of the scholarship Since classes start on Tuesday, getting kinda late to say Parra "could" start in the spring. To do that, there is a lot of work to be completed that doesn't appear to be even started.
You are correct that she doesn't have to sign an LOI, but to be a scholarship athlete, her paperwork must have been submitted to the NCAA CLearinghouse. If she intends to be a scholarship athlete this spring, it would be pretty sloppy to not have financial aid papers signed since this is the guarantee of scholarship by the school. Typically the LOI is signed at the same time.
Not sure the person close to you understands the process. This reads as she is not entering this process unless this person left out a lot of facts.
As I said earlier the paperwork required by the ncaa has already been submitted. I was asked about the LOI which is not required. All her paperwork that needs to be submitted by Texas and the ncaa is completed. As someone said a couple of posts above her situation is kind of like lukatic last season. She came out of nowhere and nobody knew but everything she needed was done so it's alot of behind the scenes taking place that is between parra and Texas that we don't know about such as all the paperwork but it is done. The person who is the source I assure you is very very knowledgeable about her entire process.
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Post by horns1 on Jan 15, 2020 11:13:18 GMT -5
I'm sure there's a lot of administrative processing that goes on prior to student-athlete enrolling in college classes for the first time. It was my understanding that unless a recruit signed some sort of paperwork, there was no reason for a university's athletic department to submit anything to the NCAA Clearinghouse for review and approval. In other words, until recruit signs, what are you asking the NCAA Clearing house to do? But, I could be wrong on the timing of it all.
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Post by stevehorn on Jan 15, 2020 11:17:05 GMT -5
Since classes start on Tuesday, getting kinda late to say Parra "could" start in the spring. To do that, there is a lot of work to be completed that doesn't appear to be even started.
You are correct that she doesn't have to sign an LOI, but to be a scholarship athlete, her paperwork must have been submitted to the NCAA CLearinghouse. If she intends to be a scholarship athlete this spring, it would be pretty sloppy to not have financial aid papers signed since this is the guarantee of scholarship by the school. Typically the LOI is signed at the same time.
Not sure the person close to you understands the process. This reads as she is not entering this process unless this person left out a lot of facts.
As I said earlier the paperwork required by the ncaa has already been submitted. I was asked about the LOI which is not required. All her paperwork that needs to be submitted by Texas and the ncaa is completed. As someone said a couple of posts above her situation is kind of like lukatic last season. She came out of nowhere and nobody knew but everything she needed was done so it's alot of behind the scenes taking place that is between parra and Texas that we don't know about such as all the paperwork but it is done. The person who is the source I assure you is very very knowledgeable about her entire process. No you didn't say previously that all of her required paperwork was submitted. At least not in this thread. If you had been specific, there would be a lot less confusion. How about sharing what paperwork has been submitted to the NCAA. Also has she been cleared by the NCAA Clearinghouse.
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Post by horns1 on Jan 15, 2020 11:19:43 GMT -5
I do wonder if the international aspect of Parra allows for the situation to be less formal? I remember it felt like Luketic just randomly showed up one day and was on scholarship and no one knew she was coming.
So I know Miller at Nebraska is transferring out and she was on scholarship. I think they're trying to make space for Fleck, if she does end up choosing Nebraska. I wonder if Peterson is considering transferring? It sounds as though JE has essentially offered Fleck a scholarship so I would be interested to see any effects of her choosing Texas over NE/Wisc/the Pac 12 teams. Well, no one (fans) knew Luketic was coming until she showed up in pre-match drills in the August Orange/White scrimmage due to lack of social media or any other kind of publicity that she had made a decision to play at Texas. Not even Texas had announced kind of "signing" prior to that.
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Post by texastothehouse15 on Jan 15, 2020 11:20:03 GMT -5
I'm sure there's a lot of administrative processing that goes on prior to student-athlete enrolling in college classes for the first time. It was my understanding, that unless a recruit signed some sort of paperwork, there was no reason for a university's athletic department to submit anything to the NCAA Clearinghouse for review and approval. In other words, until recruit signs, what are you asking the NCAA Clearing house to do? But, I could be wrong on the timing of it all. Yeah I get what your saying but from what I was told to make the scholarship official the financial part of the scholarship is what needs to be signed and that has already been done on her part the LOI is just to stop the recruiting process from other schools but what makes everything offical in terms of the ncaa and Texas that has already been done so it's safe to say she is good to go. The only thing she did not sign is her LOI which is basically just to let other coaches and fans know it's official.
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Post by horns1 on Jan 15, 2020 11:22:00 GMT -5
Regardless of the process, I'll be thrilled if Melanie is enrolled for classes come Tuesday. To have her, Capri Davis, and Naomi Cabello in the gym this early is a huge benefit.
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Post by texastothehouse15 on Jan 15, 2020 11:25:05 GMT -5
As I said earlier the paperwork required by the ncaa has already been submitted. I was asked about the LOI which is not required. All her paperwork that needs to be submitted by Texas and the ncaa is completed. As someone said a couple of posts above her situation is kind of like lukatic last season. She came out of nowhere and nobody knew but everything she needed was done so it's alot of behind the scenes taking place that is between parra and Texas that we don't know about such as all the paperwork but it is done. The person who is the source I assure you is very very knowledgeable about her entire process. No you didn't say previously that all of her required paperwork was submitted. At least not in this thread. If you had been specific, there would be a lot less confusion. How about sharing what paperwork has been submitted to the NCAA. Also has she been cleared by the NCAA Clearinghouse. I don't know the specific type of paperwork which is a given because that is not public knowledge. That is between Texas and parra but I was told all that needs to be signed and submitted has been signed and submitted. I don't see where the confusion comes in because I stated everything that needs to be done has been done the only thing she didn't sign is a LOI which is not required it's really up to the player and coach to decide if they want to do that and I guess they didnt because it's really not a big deal
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Post by texastothehouse15 on Jan 15, 2020 11:26:47 GMT -5
Regardless of the process, I'll be thrilled if Melanie is enrolled for classes come Tuesday. To have her, Capri Davis, and Naomi Cabello in the gym this early is a huge benefit. Yes it will be a huge contribution to the 2020 season just to have all them in the gym early and used to the system texas plays with. Now if we can add zoe fleck then Texas will be a force for years to come🤘🏽
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Post by texastothehouse15 on Jan 15, 2020 11:29:52 GMT -5
Zoe fleck is leaving LA I presume for another visit. Anyone know where??
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Post by stanfordvb on Jan 15, 2020 11:33:51 GMT -5
Zoe fleck is leaving LA I presume for another visit. Anyone know where?? She has Nebraska Texas and UCLA visits locked down, still speculation on wisco and psu as possible visits as well
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