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01/09 13:32 CST NCAA denies Mississippi's request to extend star QB Trinidad
Chambliss' eligibility
NCAA denies Mississippi's request to extend star QB Trinidad Chambliss'
eligibility
By The Associated Press
The NCAA denied Mississippi's request to extend the eligibility of Trinidad
Chambliss on Friday.
The Rebels star quarterback just finished his fifth year of college football in
a 31-27 loss to Miami in the College Football Playoff semifinals on Thursday
night.
He had planned to return to Ole Miss for one more year if the waiver was
approved.
Chambliss took a redshirt his first season at Ferris State in 2021-22 and was
held out in his second season for medical reasons. He played two more seasons
at the Division II school, and then transferred to Ole Miss before the start of
this season. Ole Miss filed the waiver request with the NCAA in November.
The NCAA said Ole Miss and Ferris State failed to provide adequate medical
documentation to back up the request.
"Approval requires schools to submit medical documentation provided by a
treating physician at the time of a student's incapacitating injury or illness,
which was not provided," the NCAA's denial statement reads. "The documents
provided by Ole Miss and the student's prior school include a physician's note
from a December 2022 visit, which stated the student-athlete was ?doing very
well' since he was seen in August 2022. Additionally, the student-athlete's
prior school indicated it had no documentation on medical treatment, injury
reports or medical conditions involving the student-athlete during that time
frame and cited ?developmental needs and our team's competitive circumstances'
as its reason the student-athlete did not play in the 2022-23 season."
The NCAA noted that it initially provided a verbal denial on Dec. 8.
"To receive a clock extension, a student-athlete must have been denied two
seasons of competition for reasons beyond the student's or school's control,
and a ?redshirt' year can be used only once," the statement reads. "One of the
rules being cited publicly (Bylaw 12.6.4.2.2) is not the correct rule for the
type of waiver requested by the school."
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