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Now that Carl has entered his name in the transfer portal and we know for sure that he isn't coming back, I figured I'd post in the CP thread. I don't blame him one bit for leaving. He's accomplished a lot in his 4 years at UMass, both in terms of basketball and academics. It's time for a change of scenery and I'm sure he'll be successful wherever he lands. If that's at a lower level where he can play a lot of minutes, or as a role player on a potential tournament team. Mr. UMass, he'll always be welcome back on campus and I hope to see him in the stands at the Mullins over the years.

Perhaps he'll go to UMass Lowell. That way he can still be Mr. UMass and be on a team with a shot at a championship.

Certainly wasn't expecting to see this news last night. I figured he'd move on to try and play professionally or return... didn't even cross my mind that he might grad transfer. Good for him and I'm happy for him in whatever he does. The kid was a rock and while he didn't improve as much as we thought he would after what we saw from him early on, he's been the most consistent thing for this program since the Chaz days.

With that said, him not returning is still best case scenario... he played a ton of minutes and it is time for TJ to get the bulk of those.

Thought you could only play 4 years? Does he get an extra because of covid?

Floyd wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:57 am Thought you could only play 4 years? Does he get an extra because of covid?

Yes

Floyd wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:57 am Thought you could only play 4 years? Does he get an extra because of covid?

Couple of resources here:

https://www.ncsasports.org/articles-1/n ... w%20school.

https://www.ncaa.org/student-athletes/c ... sfer-terms

Upstate10 wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:11 am

Floyd wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:57 am Thought you could only play 4 years? Does he get an extra because of covid?

Yes

Thanks Upstate. So even with the 5 to play 4, you still get to play 5 because of covid?

Floyd wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:02 pm

Upstate10 wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:11 am

Floyd wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:57 am Thought you could only play 4 years? Does he get an extra because of covid?

Yes

Thanks Upstate. So even with the 5 to play 4, you still get to play 5 because of covid?

Yupp. So in theory TJ could stay for six years since last season went in the books as a redshirt year and this season didn’t count as a year of eligibility.

This year's just practice, not a game, just practice

^ Paging Allen Iverson......

harbo wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:12 am Paging Allen Iverson......

Does he have any eligibility left?

https://twitter.com/sean02mtm/status/13 ... 14400?s=21

Headed to Rice. I’ll be paying attention, appreciate what Carl gave to the program.

excellent academic uni
I know a couple of distinguished profs in the Shepherd School of Music there.

Carl will be joining former hs teammate Travis Evee. To bad Evee wasn’t joining Carl here.

Good for Carl. Hope he does really well there.