The NCAA is scheduled to hear Fields' waiver request this week and Tom Mars is bringing in some political allies to ramp up the pressure, to no one's surprise.
"I wonder if any in the NCAA has suffered the humiliation of being top-rated, good at what you do, but no matter what you do being called a racial namewhat it does to your skills, your character, what it does to your mind. I would hope the NCAA realizes that to take him off the field a year for transferring because of racism is in many ways to cosign the insults that he's had to endure. Victims cannot be penalized."
"I wonder if any in the NCAA has suffered the humiliation of being top-rated, good at what you do, but no matter what you do being called a racial namewhat it does to your skills, your character, what it does to your mind. I would hope the NCAA realizes that to take him off the field a year for transferring because of racism is in many ways to cosign the insults that he's had to endure. Victims cannot be penalized."