The NCAA’s crackdown on second-time transfers being granted immediate eligibility continued Thursday with the organization’s latest waiver denial.
The NCAA informed Cal this week that Jaylon Tyson, a junior forward transfer from Texas Tech who also spent time at Texas, had his waiver for immediate eligibility denied. The ruling comes in spite of the fact that Tyson, who is Black, left Texas Tech in the wake of head coach Mark Adams resigning after making racist comments to players.
“Last year, I was racially discriminated against on multiple occasions. I was called a slave, and that Mark Adams was my master,” Tyson told Sports Illustrated. “When he said that I kind of froze and went down a dark path in my life that I had never [experienced] before. It was very embarrassing for me and my family to have to go through this process.”
