Naadir Tharpe: Former Kansas guard turning pro

The NCAA’s transfer rules are sometimes a little confusing. In most occasions a player has to sit out a full season before that player could participate in games for a different school than the one they were with the year prior. Other times, however, if the player was deemed a hardship transfer or already graduated college (or some other, more weird waivers) they are granted waivers to play immediately. Apparently, though, the NCAA thought that former Kansas Jayhawks guard Naadir Tharpe — who applied for a hardship waiver — did not meet any such immediately eligible requirements.

So, now, instead of sitting out a year to be closer to home Naadir Tharpe is turning pro in something other than being used by the NCAA.

Tharpe told Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports that, “I didn’t want to sit out. At this point, I’d rather just try the D-League instead of sitting out a year to play a year [in college].”

In case you have forgotten, Naadir Tharpe was a member of the Kansas Jayhawks before wanting to move closer home to be with his daughter. Sounds like a pretty good and decent thing any man would want to do for their child, but the NCAA did not think it met the requirements for the hardship waiver.

So, I guess, it is less a hardship to have a father-daughter relationship strained than it is for a guy to lose his third uncle on his aunt Betty’s side — eh, I digress.

Former Kansas guard Naadir Tharpe turning pro

By Joe Nardone | Jul 9, 2014