Virginia quarterback Chandler Morris has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA seeking a seventh year of eligibility, his agent, Simon Pflum, told ESPN on Tuesday.
Morris and his attorneys filed a lawsuit in Charlottesville Circuit Court seeking a preliminary injunction in his continued quest to be approved for one more season of eligibility after his medical redshirt waiver and appeal were denied by the NCAA in January.
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LOL.
UVA or not.
LOL.
Smh another shitty qb stealing eligibility from a high school senior
Imagine being the two QBs that transferred in with the assurance Morris was done at Zima U. Holstein and Pribula have to be pissed.
I hope Holstein doesn't have a cow about it.
...I'll see myself out.
Having already planned for his departure, if Morris wins his case and I'm Tony Elliot, I would tell him "congratulations and good luck on your next team, our QB room is full"
Except Morris is better than Pribula and Holstein, so he wont.
He was better, until the arthritis and early-on-set dementia set in. Now its time to get him to the home before the 4pm dinner bell.
Good Lord.
They're claiming the 3 games he played in 2022 after coming back from injury (in the season opener)
"...were part of a medically prescribed mental health treatment plan..."
You have to admit, he needs some treatments.
But not another year of eligibility.
It's becoming more and more apparent that kids who know they'd never make it as a pro will take to the courts to try and keep their NIL gravy train going. Expect to see more of it.
There are 3.9M open job positions on LinkedIn certainly he could try one of those.
They dont pay as well
They are however better suited for a 26 year old. I get wanting to hold on to the money but suing because you played a season "for prescribed mental health" is frivolous bullshit just like all these other cases.
I don't disagree, and im sure Clemson will give him a GA position if he wants it, but every athlete is told they can't play the game any more some at younger ages, some at really old ages and they all hate the timing. So he wants to play because its his only option and the money is better than just about anything else he will do in his life. Doesn't mean he should be allowed to play.
i mean, with that prestigious loluva degree, he could surely land a mcdonalds drive-thru attendant position
I also suspect that quite a few of them are either (1) fake jobs or (2) jobs where the company has already decided who they are hiring but need to post the job and do interviews to say that they did a real job search.
Yup. I dont' know how many positions I applied for off of linkedIn when retiring from the military. I didn't get so much as a "Thank you we have received your application." or "Sorry, you arent' who we are looking for".
Just radio silence.
Best I can tell, I have been a member of linkedin since 2007. In that time i have applied for a number of jobs and had maybe 4 phone interviews, none of which led to jobs. Every job I have had since 2000 except for 2 has been because I knew someone at the company (or a friend of a friend situation) in some form or another with the exception of two I got through temp agencies.
edit: punctuation
Counterpoint is that i have had two jobs since finishing my degree at tech and both effectively came via linkedin, although the second one was not directly.
Also, I have not had a large number of jobs in that time. I was with one company for 17 years. I recognize others may have more use for it than me.
But I have personally never found a lot of value in LinkedIn. It's social aspects take all the worst parts of company get togethers and annual reviews and combine them with all the worst parts of social media. It is somehow more fake than standard social media, but in a business-y veneer.
I have never come across information on there that was actually helpful to me aside from tracking where some of my former coworkers have ended up as a matter of curiosity. I text or use other social media for those that I'm really interested in keeping up with. Maybe checking out an applicant's expanded resume before an interview? I'm not sure if that is to their benefit or detriment or if that information was actually helpful to me in any way though.
That said, I still have a presence on there in the event that one day it might prove useful.
This thread is making me kind of happy that I have been with the same company 31 years come September. Still way to young to retire (only 51). They treat me right, have flexible hours, pay well enough, give performance bonuses, ESOP, and match my 401k (badly but on top of performance bonuses and ESOP, meh). I thought about going public sector but recognize it is probably A) too late for any decent pension. B) the public sector pay scale is about 70% of what I make a year.
Thinking the same thing. I'm 55, have been with my govt org for almost 25 years now, and am looking to retire in around 10 years. I think I'm going to be able to retire from this job, but I'd be really apprehensive if I have to go back out in the job market. I want no part of this current-day market.
I dont remember how I got my 2nd job, I know they called me so monster maybe, after that my next two were applying directly to the company
In '77, I applied for a state job in Va. I had to travel, buy a suit, and take time off from the shitty job I had to go for the interview. I then waited afterward for a couple of months, figured I was not getting the job, then was called in again for another interview. I was given the job, finally, and went through the hiring and moving stuff. Subsequently, I found out that the whole process was a sham to avoid the mandatory "list" of applicants for qualification while trying to get their already selected candidate to come up on said list so they could hire her. Eventually, they gave up and I got the job, but I never got over that whole process, and when I left 5 years later, I made sure to vent about it before I left. Even then, the safeguards for preferential hiring were subverted by those with a different agenda. It isn't a new problem.
Good luck getting a callback on any of them.
The entire recruiting industry is currently cooked beyond repair
Been finding this out myself lately.
This is fact and has gone down the implosion path for a number of years. I'm 2H2023 the shit really hitting the fan.
Yep I'm on my second stretch of being unemployed since the start of 2024 and the only time I ever get any traction at all is if a recruiter calls.
Applying to jobs is pissing into the wind in the current economy. AI had made it so every job, even at the local level, is flooded with hundreds or thousands of fake applicants within minutes of posting and the AI implemented to sort is incapable of doing it.
Yeah this is a real problem and its taxing the hiring process a lot. We posted a job for 12 hours for a senior position and had over 1200 applications. Of those more than half were complete garbage just restating the JD. Half of the remainder were people wildly under qualified but we had to take the posting down just to sort through all of them because I work for a company that has less than 50 employees we don't have time to get through that rate of application.
What's frustrating is a lot of automated services that will post our jobs out to LinkedIn won't take it down if we've pause applications....I think those just end up in a blackhole somewhere?
I know it's not applicable on a global, national, or likely even a regional scale - but word of mouth and personnel connections have been the best way we've been able to hire anyone of value for the last 10 years. It's impossible for a small business to wade through all the crap you get if you post a job.
The only other ways we've been successful are to hire a recruiter and let them deal with the mess (getting less and less reliable), poaching someone from another organization ($$$$), or hiring low level based on potential and training up. Not sure what the future of hiring and networking is but what's out there now is just a mess at best.
I wonder if jobs will start using AI detection tools just like universities to weed out applications. I mean seems like an easy offering for indeeds or monster (are they still a thing?)
A few years when I was hiring I posted on L.I. and did not get a single applicant. I assumed it was I was because I was only using the free service part of it. Ended up hiring one of my friends' kids who I knew was a hard worker, and it worked out fine, though could have gotten a bit ugly if I had had to fire him.
After that we expanded an executive admin position to include HR. We have had to go to skills testing the applicants because so many people are using AI to write resumes to get jobs that more than half are claiming skills they do not have. 90% of our successful hires have been through personal relationships and character references from people we know, and 80% of those hired "blind" have not worked out.
I cant speak to industries where people are working remote, but nothing will get you an interview somewhere faster than going to their office and getting in front of somebody face to face. Personal relationships and references have always been the driving force for any job that isn't extreme entry level plug and play or been replaced by robots.
Lots of hiring people in my opinion have no idea what they're doing and way to wrapped up in technical words that can be written down on a resume. Try to get in front of somebody important face to face. If they tell the HR to hire you they will. General intelligence and personality fits matter way more than people realize.
Your mileage may very in something like coding. Guess you need to know how to do that or you are useless. My background is in construction and construction management. Anything outside of what could be considered day labor is probably 75% relationship based.
That might work in construction, but if you show up to a business in 2026 with a resume in hand for most other professions, especially software development, they'll quietly ask you to leave and apply online, and if you press the issue asking to speak with someone, they'll call security.
Maybe, I said your mileage may very. I wouldn't ever work at a place like that, so good thing i withdrew from my Python class in college and switched majors.
Relationships still matter though. Especially the higher up the food chain you want to go.
The entirety of LinkedIn is just AI bots reading resumes written by other AI bots forwarding hits to other AI bots for jobs that companies may or may not actually have available but posted anyway.
I'm so glad that I will be looking to retire, semi-retire or go freelance next year. Will see what happens. If I end up looking for another job, I will probably be searching for a little part-time thing. Wife already took early retirement at the end of 2024, and she is talking about getting that type of a job after our daughter heads off to college.
At age 61(a week from Sunday), I have had a total of 5 jobs in my life(not including 6 months of temp stuff /unemployment in my mid 20s). Been at my current company(or predecessors that merged into it) for 33 years as of next month. Can't imagine 'looking for work' in today's environment. My value is definitely highest in my current company due to a wealth of 'tribal knowledge' of the industry and corporate history. Plus having done almost everything involved with mortgages form Origination, processing, underwriting, closing, post-closing, and all of the servicing activities outside of loss mitigation. (also never done accounting/finance capital markets stuff).
I love being the person EVERYONE comes to when they have questions about the data and my fave part is root-cause analysis for errors(great at pattern and anomaly recognition). And with the latest merger we actually have pensions again(based on service with the new merged company but hey something's better than nothing)! Plan is to work at least another 7 years (health permitting) to get to 40 year mark and even then I might stay on if they'll have me. I was offered early retirement 6 years ago but too young to retire and too old to want to be job-hunting.
Bummer guys. My company is hiring. If any of these fit you, let me know and I can make sure human eyes read your resume.
https://rksolutions.applicantpool.com/jobs/
It's a pretty good gig. Most of us are remote. Paid overtime for everyone (even our CEO). Employee-Owned. Flexible hours (at least for software devs like me). Lots of Hokies.
Good luck out there.
I applied to about 200 in over just a year. About 75% did send (automated) rejection emails. Honestly, a higher percentage than I thought. I had 2 actual responses. 1 was a recruiter interview and then rejection. The other I interviewed with 5 people then got rejected. 2 months later they came back saying they were opening up another position and offered it to me.
I was applying to locations in a different country, but I felt highly qualified for the positions I was going for and many that I had highly specific skills and still nothing. Thankfully, had a job but man, a 1% response rate is crazy. It literally is just throwing as much against the wall in hopes one person is having a day where they feel generous.
Behind the scenes with Chandler Morris.
I mean come on he's only played 46 college games at the FBS level, obviously he needs to push for 60! He even had a year where he maxed out his 4 games to still redshirt.
This is a ridiculous cash grab. And I'm not even sure UVa wants him considering they paid for 2 FBS transfers at QB this portal season.
Get a freaking job and get on with your life. Good Lord
Two thoughts:
First, this isn't about another year with UVA, it's about getting another year of eligibility. However, he's outside of the transfer window so this has the potential to be really fun to watch from the opposing fan base perspective.
Second, the article cited Trinidad and Ole Miss. I think Morris' issue is that he filed inside a state that doesn't give a damn about bending legalities to get a few extra conference wins, whereas Mississippi (and anywhere in the SEC) absolutely will do it.
The Judge that most likely went to UVA wont give two shits about UVA football.
Go to Miami and compete with Mensah
7th year, on the grounds? He must be a doctor by now!
At least a Doctor of NILology, right?
I dunno why but this made my think of the Linkin Park lyric:
"I mastered numerology, Big Bang theology
Performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychology"
Only the finest academic traditions of excellence both on and off the field, within the hallowed grounds of America's finest "Public Ivy"
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get a job