🏈 Elisha Shaw: Alabama only school to honor scholly offer, he'll attend on a medical.

[TerryP]

Earlier today, Texas A&M got a lot of attention for honoring its scholarship offer to Cedric Collins, who suffered a career-ending injury in high school.

Alabama and head coach Nick Saban did exactly the same thing today, as the Crimson Tide will honor its offer of a scholarship to Elisha Shaw, a Georgia product who learned recently from doctors that he would not be able to continue to play college football. He had suffered a neck injury prior to his senior season, sitting out the entire year wondering if he’d get a chance to live up to his relatively high ranking in the nation. Because he only recently found out he would no longer be able to play, he continued to be heavily recruited during the fall.

When Shaw found out his career could not go on, several schools backed away, but BamaOnline.com reported a source close to Shaw said only Alabama stood by its scholarship offer to Shaw. So on national signing day, Shaw decided to announce his intention to attend school at Alabama. He will be on a medical scholarship.


Saturday Down South.

 

[planomateo]

That's freaking awesome. I suspected that was the case when I saw his name on the board.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I'll anxiously await Micheal Carvell's positive article on it.












:sarca:

 

[Tider27]

To all the bitter rival fans that always mentioned over-signing and the "cutting" of players, this is what it's all about. Ensuring an education for these kids is very honorable of Saban, in this case it's definitely special.

 

[JoshB]

Great great story and class act by Coach Saban. Not gonna here this story on ESPN likely smh

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Great great story and class act by Coach Saban. Not gonna here this story on ESPN likely smh

Saban is an ass who hates everyone. He's mean. A jerk. A liar. He doesn't do things like this!!!

Oh, changing the subject, did y'all see this? https://www.jimmyv.org/about-us/new...le-gala-honor-nick-saban-mike-brey-tom-crean/

 

[alabama mike]

Now that is a great pick up! That's a 5 star if I have ever heard one. Glad the young man will get to continue his education.

 

[Ump]

Very classy. Thanks coach.

 

[bamaraider]

Classy move by coach Saban. Good luck Shaw on getting your degree.

 

[252BAMA]

Great great story and class act by Coach Saban. Not gonna here this story on ESPN likely smh

"Elisha Shaw was at one time a very highly sought after defensive tackle prospect from Georgia. He was a massive young man whose entire future changed with a severe neck injury suffered in the pre-season of 2013.
The injury didn’t stop most schools from recruiting him, as it was unclear whether he would get to play or not, but then late in 2013 Shaw got the bad news he didn’t want to hear from his doctors. He would never get to play football again.
Every school pulled their scholarship offer except one; Alabama and Nick Saban kept their scholarship offer on the table.
Shaw will be able to attend Alabama via football scholarship and receive a medical hardship. It’s a gesture that you’re not going to see plastered all over ESPN today, or really any day. This isn’t like a player getting arrested or saying something stupid on Twitter; it’s a real story which means it will be primarily ignored for the most part.
Although every “Nicky Satan” comment or oversigning claim hurled at Saban is blasted from the rooftops, things like the Elisha Shaw scholarship get ignored. If he blows up at the media over a stupid question, you can bet it will be all over ESPN. When he and members of the team show up at a children’s hospital to hang out with cancer patients, ESPN doesn’t care so much."

http://bamahammer.com/2014/02/05/elisha-shaw-the-real-story-of-national-signing-day/

 

[RollllTide!]

"Elisha Shaw was at one time a very highly sought after defensive tackle prospect from Georgia. He was a massive young man whose entire future changed with a severe neck injury suffered in the pre-season of 2013.
The injury didn’t stop most schools from recruiting him, as it was unclear whether he would get to play or not, but then late in 2013 Shaw got the bad news he didn’t want to hear from his doctors. He would never get to play football again.
Every school pulled their scholarship offer except one; Alabama and Nick Saban kept their scholarship offer on the table.
Shaw will be able to attend Alabama via football scholarship and receive a medical hardship. It’s a gesture that you’re not going to see plastered all over ESPN today, or really any day. This isn’t like a player getting arrested or saying something stupid on Twitter; it’s a real story which means it will be primarily ignored for the most part.
Although every “Nicky Satan” comment or oversigning claim hurled at Saban is blasted from the rooftops, things like the Elisha Shaw scholarship get ignored. If he blows up at the media over a stupid question, you can bet it will be all over ESPN. When he and members of the team show up at a children’s hospital to hang out with cancer patients, ESPN doesn’t care so much."

http://bamahammer.com/2014/02/05/elisha-shaw-the-real-story-of-national-signing-day/

Now Now, everyone at ESPN will have to make a big deal of this. You know they will because at some point they will run out of good things to say about Notre Dame and Ohio State. They don't want anyone saying they hate the SEC. :biggrin_blue:

 

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Bama honors scholarship offer to injured Shaw

The Crimson Tide landed one more recruit than the 27 they counted as official signees: Elisha Shaw, a former standout football prospect who saw his playing career end before the start of his senior season.

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[TerryP]

Great great story and class act by Coach Saban. Not gonna here this story on ESPN likely smh

Yet, hear it is. The pessimism...smh.

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Bama honors aid offer to Elisha Shaw

Alabama coach Nick Saban again put together the No. 1 recruiting class in the country, a group that includes five 5-star athletes and a whopping 19 members of the ESPN 300. But the Crimson Tide landed one more recruit Wednesday than the 27 they counted as official signees: Elisha Shaw, a former standout prospect who saw his playing career end before the start of his senior season in high school.

On signing day, Shaw sat among 15 of his classmates as they signed their national letters of intent. Shaw, however, did not do the same. He "signed" with Alabama without actually putting pen to paper.
It's part of a commitment Saban made ensuring that Shaw would receive a scholarship at Alabama under a medical exemption.

The paperwork is not finished, according to a university source, but it should be done soon, allowing Shaw to fulfill his dream of getting a college education and being a part of the Crimson Tide even though he won't play for the team.

Shaw, when reached via text message Thursday morning, said it was "great" when he committed to Alabama on Wednesday, the first school to offer him as a junior in 2012. He'll be on a "medical" scholarship, he said, and he hopes to work on the field as a coach or volunteer assistant.

The former 296-pound defensive tackle had a slew of scholarship offers as a junior at Tucker High in Atlanta. Alabama, Auburn, Florida State and a number of other top Division I programs were interested, but after he suffered a serious neck injury on the second day of summer practice last year, interest dried up.

The strained ligaments in his neck will never heal, according to Tucker coach Bryan Lamar, and he'll need surgery "down the road."

Lamar was quick to point out that Shaw will not have a "football scholarship" at Alabama, meaning he won't count among the athletes Alabama has signed. When reached Thursday, Lamar said he had an unopened email from the SEC in his inbox to return that would further the progress toward Shaw's scholarship.

When asked when he would enroll, Shaw texted, "I don't know."

Alabama isn't the first program to follow through on the promise of a scholarship to an athlete who was no longer able to play the game. Cedric Collins (Skyline High/Dallas) will never play again after experiencing numbness in his legs after a hit in 2012, according to The Dallas Morning News, but Texas A&M nonetheless awarded him a scholarship.

NCAA bylaw 15.5.1.3 states that, "If an incapacitating injury or illness occurs prior to a prospective student-athlete's or a student-athlete's participation in athletically related activities and results in the student-athlete's inability to compete ever again, the student-athlete shall not be counted within the institution's maximum financial aid award limitations for the current, as well as later academic years."

Bylaw 15.5.1.3.2 does account for a change in circumstance: "If circumstances change and the student-athlete subsequently practices or competes at the institution at which the incapacitating injury or illness occurred, the student-athlete again shall become a counter, and the institution shall be required to count that financial aid under the limitations of this bylaw in the sport in question during each academic year in which the financial aid was received."

 

[JoshB]

"Elisha Shaw was at one time a very highly sought after defensive tackle prospect from Georgia. He was a massive young man whose entire future changed with a severe neck injury suffered in the pre-season of 2013.
The injury didn’t stop most schools from recruiting him, as it was unclear whether he would get to play or not, but then late in 2013 Shaw got the bad news he didn’t want to hear from his doctors. He would never get to play football again.
Every school pulled their scholarship offer except one; Alabama and Nick Saban kept their scholarship offer on the table.
Shaw will be able to attend Alabama via football scholarship and receive a medical hardship. It’s a gesture that you’re not going to see plastered all over ESPN today, or really any day. This isn’t like a player getting arrested or saying something stupid on Twitter; it’s a real story which means it will be primarily ignored for the most part.
Although every “Nicky Satan” comment or oversigning claim hurled at Saban is blasted from the rooftops, things like the Elisha Shaw scholarship get ignored. If he blows up at the media over a stupid question, you can bet it will be all over ESPN. When he and members of the team show up at a children’s hospital to hang out with cancer patients, ESPN doesn’t care so much."

http://bamahammer.com/2014/02/05/elisha-shaw-the-real-story-of-national-signing-day/

I wrote that lol

Yet, hear it is. The pessimism...smh.

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Bama honors aid offer to Elisha Shaw

Alabama coach Nick Saban again put together the No. 1 recruiting class in the country, a group that includes five 5-star athletes and a whopping 19 members of the ESPN 300. But the Crimson Tide landed one more recruit Wednesday than the 27 they counted as official signees: Elisha Shaw, a former standout prospect who saw his playing career end before the start of his senior season in high school.

On signing day, Shaw sat among 15 of his classmates as they signed their national letters of intent. Shaw, however, did not do the same. He "signed" with Alabama without actually putting pen to paper.
It's part of a commitment Saban made ensuring that Shaw would receive a scholarship at Alabama under a medical exemption.

The paperwork is not finished, according to a university source, but it should be done soon, allowing Shaw to fulfill his dream of getting a college education and being a part of the Crimson Tide even though he won't play for the team.

Shaw, when reached via text message Thursday morning, said it was "great" when he committed to Alabama on Wednesday, the first school to offer him as a junior in 2012. He'll be on a "medical" scholarship, he said, and he hopes to work on the field as a coach or volunteer assistant.

The former 296-pound defensive tackle had a slew of scholarship offers as a junior at Tucker High in Atlanta. Alabama, Auburn, Florida State and a number of other top Division I programs were interested, but after he suffered a serious neck injury on the second day of summer practice last year, interest dried up.

The strained ligaments in his neck will never heal, according to Tucker coach Bryan Lamar, and he'll need surgery "down the road."

Lamar was quick to point out that Shaw will not have a "football scholarship" at Alabama, meaning he won't count among the athletes Alabama has signed. When reached Thursday, Lamar said he had an unopened email from the SEC in his inbox to return that would further the progress toward Shaw's scholarship.

When asked when he would enroll, Shaw texted, "I don't know."

Alabama isn't the first program to follow through on the promise of a scholarship to an athlete who was no longer able to play the game. Cedric Collins (Skyline High/Dallas) will never play again after experiencing numbness in his legs after a hit in 2012, according to The Dallas Morning News, but Texas A&M nonetheless awarded him a scholarship.

NCAA bylaw 15.5.1.3 states that, "If an incapacitating injury or illness occurs prior to a prospective student-athlete's or a student-athlete's participation in athletically related activities and results in the student-athlete's inability to compete ever again, the student-athlete shall not be counted within the institution's maximum financial aid award limitations for the current, as well as later academic years."

Bylaw 15.5.1.3.2 does account for a change in circumstance: "If circumstances change and the student-athlete subsequently practices or competes at the institution at which the incapacitating injury or illness occurred, the student-athlete again shall become a counter, and the institution shall be required to count that financial aid under the limitations of this bylaw in the sport in question during each academic year in which the financial aid was received."

Happy someone wrote about it, my point was this is not a story thats gonna be talked about by the media (I unfairly said just ESPN) but let someone talk sh*t on Twitter or get arrested and it will be EVERYWHERE. Positive stories just dont get as many clicks/views I guess, that was my point. Not just throwing dirt on the empire.

 

[TerryP]

Happy someone wrote about it, my point was this is not a story thats gonna be talked about by the media (I unfairly said just ESPN) but let someone talk sh*t on Twitter or get arrested and it will be EVERYWHERE. Positive stories just dont get as many clicks/views I guess, that was my point. Not just throwing dirt on the empire.

I understood where you were coming from with your comment. Even with the positive side of the story, there are still those who are going to point out their feelings that you see mentioned often on outlets like Twitter.

Bran made the comment about Carvell, and I was a little shocked to see him write an article about Shaw. Heck, he even titled it, "This year's best story from National Signing Day." Even more surprising to me is he pointed out the difference between the A&M story and this one.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Bama&amp;src=hash">#Bama</a> wasn't morally obligated to help out Shaw since he wasn't committed there but <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Bama&amp;src=hash">#Bama</a> did anyways: <a href="http://t.co/XGoyUELuAM">http://t.co/XGoyUELuAM</a></p>&mdash; Michael Carvell (@RecruitingAJC) <a href="https://twitter.com/RecruitingAJC/statuses/431525730501935104">February 6, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>One thing ppl are missing on Shaw story is he was NOT committed to <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Bama&amp;src=hash">#Bama</a> when neck injury happened, unlike Tex A&amp;M/Collins kid</p>&mdash; Michael Carvell (@RecruitingAJC) <a href="https://twitter.com/RecruitingAJC/statuses/431525118028701697">February 6, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[JoshB]

Yeah I read the AJC story earlier, was a bit surprised. Then I saw all the comments below it about Bama "over signing again" lol

 

[TerryP]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Some parents of elite GA 2015 prospects told me tonight that Shaw deal has changed the way they look at <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Bama&amp;src=hash">#Bama</a></p>&mdash; Michael Carvell (@RecruitingAJC) <a href="https://twitter.com/RecruitingAJC/statuses/431634600465416193">February 7, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[PhillyGirl]

The TAMU story is getting all of the coverage. Meh. Both nice gestures, but come on now!

 

[TerryP]

If you run a google search on Shaw's scholarship and then Collings you'll find more coverage of Shaw...