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Injured UH QB Keenum will apply for another season
By STEVE CAMPBELL

Houston Cougars quarterback Case Keenum has decided to petition the NCAA for a sixth year of eligibility.

A person familiar with the situation said UH is putting together the necessary paperwork to file an appeal on Keenum's behalf to obtain a medical waiver to play in 2011.

Keenum, a fifth-year senior from Abilene, is fifth on the NCAA career passing yardage list (13,587). He suffered a season-ending torn anterior cruciate in his right knee during a 31-13 defeat against UCLA in the third game.

An eighth-place finisher in the 2009 Heisman Trophy voting and the UH career passing leader, Keenum underwent surgery on Sept. 29. He completed 42-of-64 passes for 636 yards, five touchdowns and five interceptions this season before suffering his injury.

According to the NCAA Division I Manual, the policy on granting waivers is as follows:

A waiver of the five-year period of eligibility is designed to provide a student-athlete with the opportunity to participate in four seasons of intercollegiate competition within a five-year period. This waiver may be granted, based upon objective evidence, for reasons that are beyond the control of the student-athlete or the institution that deprive the student-athlete of the opportunity to participate for more than one season in his/her sport within the five-year period.

The NCAA does not consider taking a red-shirt year, which Keenum did in 2006, to be beyond an athlete's control.

There is no specific timeline in which UH must file the appeal or the NCAA must rule. Some deadlines do loom for Keenum, though. For Keenum to be eligible to play in 2011, he'd have to be enrolled in school next spring. The session starts next Jan. 18, with students having until Jan. 25 to add classes. He is on course to graduate in December, with the NFL Draft set for next April 28-30.

The draft falls almost seven months to the day after Keenum's surgery. The recovery time for ACL surgery often tends to run at least eight or nine months. Another variable for Keenum is that the NFL's collective bargaining agreement expires next March, opening the possibility of the owners locking out the players for the 2011 season.

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He won't get it.

I don't think he's been deprived of more than one season of participation.

12 games he played in three, so he played past the allocated 20% of 2.4 games.
If the injury was before the first half he may have a 1% chance

Mestengo wrote:12 games he played in three, so he played past the allocated 20% of 2.4 games.
If the injury was before the first half he may have a 1% chance

He didn't play much in game #2 though.

Still, the rule, as quoted in the article, states that he must show that he was deprived of more than one year of competition.

Mestengo wrote:12 games he played in three, so he played past the allocated 20% of 2.4 games.
If the injury was before the first half he may have a 1% chance

They round up so the 2.4 allowable games becomes 3, so he is eligible from that standpoint. I have no opinion in any of the other details.

Show me where it states they round up on the NCAA site.
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you round up to 3 from 2.4 no wonder I'm an idiot.

Mestengo wrote:Show me where it states they round up on the NCAA site.
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you round up to 3 from 2.4 no wonder I'm an idiot.

at least you admit it now

Mestengo wrote:Show me where it states they round up on the NCAA site.
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you round up to 3 from 2.4 no wonder I'm an idiot.

I researched this about 4 years ago and am too old and tired to do it again. But I am pretty certain that the rounding up is correct. I believe the original rule of 20% was based on 10 game seasons which used to be the norm. Then some began playing 11, then 12, and some 13. So rather than having too much confusion it was stated to be 20% of regular season games and must occur with the first half of the season. The injury must be documented, season ending, and have evidence to support both. Now, if anyone can show me otherwise, I will defer to them, but I cannot not go through all this homework again.

i'm quite sure he will get it....i was in the same situation....kinda

Well they gave the exact circumstance so I feel vindicated. Now as far as the rest of the mumbo jumbo, I will leave that to the experts, but I bet he is cleared for another year.

Did you see the example of the kid who had a stroke and then an incapacitating heart lesion and applied for another year. I think I would have applied for disability and gone home.

Most of these situations and rules refer to 5 years not 6.
Never herd of rounding off less than the half way mark to the next whole number.
I'm glad the IRS and comptrollers office has not caught on to this .

A waiver of the five-year period of eligibility is designed to provide a student-athlete with the opportunity to participate in four seasons of intercollegiate competition within a five-year period. This waiver may be granted, based upon objective evidence, for reasons that are beyond the control of the student-athlete or the institution that deprive the student-athlete of the opportunity to participate for more than one season in his/her sport within the five-year period.

The issue isn't whether he will retain his one year of eligibility...by the rules (injury occurred in first half of season, with student athlete participating in less than 1/3 of the total amount of possible competition), he will. The problem is that he will then be outside of his five-year clock in which to use that eligibility. Per the above the only way to extend the clock is to show that he has missed participation for reasons beyond his control for more than one season (i.e. more than 12 games missed).