[Bcatswin]

Wisconsin Coach Bo Ryan has added the entire Atlantic Coast Conference to the list of schools that are not allowed to contact Jarrod Uthoff about joining their program.
"I just got an e-mail about it today from Wisconsin's compliance office," Uthoff told the Metro Sports Report Monday night. "I didn't see it coming."
Uthoff informed Ryan last week that he planned to leave the Badgers after one year and transfer to another college. Since then, Ryan has put the entire Big Ten, the entire ACC, Iowa State and Marquette on the "restricted" list of schools that are not allowed to contact the 6-foot-8 forward.
Uthoff starred at Cedar Rapids Jefferson and was Iowa's "Mr. Basketball" in 2011. He was redshirted at Wisconsin this season as a freshman and appeared to figure prominently in the team's future, but said he didn't feel comfortable in Wisconsin's offense and is looking for a better fit.
According to NCAA rules, colleges that want to speak to transfer students must get permission from the athlete's current school. If permission is not granted, colleges are not supposed to contact the athlete directly. It also makes the athlete ineligible for a scholarship if he transfers to that school.
Uthoff said the University of Virginia (an ACC school coached by former Wisconsin assistant Tony Bennett) sought permission from Wisconsin to contact him. As a result, Ryan added Virginia and all the other ACC schools to the no-contact list.
Uthoff said he doesn't know why Ryan has placed so many schools on the restricted list. "You have a better guess than I do," he said. "I'm not really sure."
The Metro Sports Report requested an interview with Ryan Monday afternoon, but there was no response from Wisconsin's sports information department as of 10 p.m. Monday.
The Big Ten has a policy that makes it difficult for athletes to transfer within the conference, mostly to limit the mayhem that might result, so that part of Ryan's ban is not surprising. Similarly, Marquette is located in the state of Wisconsin and competes with Ryan's Badgers for players and prestige, so that ban is not hard to fathom.
It's not clear, however, why Ryan has banned Iowa State and all the ACC schools from contacting Uthoff. "I have no idea," he said.
The ban now includes 25 different colleges with 12 schools in the ACC, 11 in the Big Ten, Iowa State and Marquette on the restricted list. Apparently, Wisconsin could place every Division I school on that list. "Theoretically they could," said Uthoff.
Uthoff has appealed the restrictions to the University of Wisconsin's compliance office, which is the office that informed him of the bans in the first place.
"I have not heard back from them," he said. "The next step would be the NCAA."
Uthoff said he would consider appealing to the NCAA if Wisconsin rejects his appeal. "We'll see. I might," he said.
Meanwhile, Uthoff's search for a new school continues. He spoke to University of Northern Iowa Coach Ben Jacobson, but the Panthers do not have any scholarships available. "He informed me of that," said Uthoff.
By coincidence, former Cedar Rapids Washington star Wes Washpun got UNI's final scholarship when he decided this spring to transfer from Tennessee to Northern Iowa.
Uthoff plans to visit Creighton early next week and meet with Coach Greg McDermott, who previously was the head coach at Northern Iowa and Iowa State. McDermott and Uthoff have spoken about the possibility of joining the Bluejays.
"I still have some pretty good options," he said.


This is ridiculous if you ask me

[milwaukee mike]

jarrod if you're reading this come to marquette

we need a white guy

[bobby heenan]

no different than what randy edsall did to danny o'brien at maryland...its a joke really that they can do this

[sweep]

Dont blame the kid. Wisc offense is anemic

[Emily_Haines]

If I was the kid I would burn down the fukers house

[Bcatswin]

[BlacK_HazE]

damn thats f$&*d

[infamousbacardi]

Cry me a river....now he only has 330 other D1 schools to choose from to get a full-ride to. The Big 10 plays the ACC in a challenge every year and Ryan probably doesn't want to play the kid if he can avoid it w/in his control. The only crazy thing about this is that he blacklisted an entire conference that wasn't the Big 10....but it's not like it was some random conference the Badgers would never have any sort of affiliation with like the Big 12 or something....


Story isn't really that crazy. Recruiting is such a dog eat dog world and something as simple as blacklisting an extra conference that your team plays at least once a year guaranteed isn't that out there really.

[Bcatswin]

Why the likes of Marquette then along with Iowa St?

[d2bets]

Weird rule. And bad press for Wisky to be doing stuff like this.

[infamousbacardi]

Why the likes of Marquette then along with Iowa St?

Marquette obviously instate rival and they compete for a lot of recruits most recently the Vander Blue debacle....Iowa St.? Who knows, they probably screwed them over recently and are just being coy w/ them I would imagine.

Overall, this is really nothing in the scheme of recruiting....why wouldn't you blacklist this kid from a school you may be guaranteed of playing either through the ACC/Big 10 challenge or the Big 10 for obvious reasons...an instate rival is clear, and only outlier then is Iowa St. but that could be a personal vendetta w/ the way they may have done Wiscy on a recent deal as well.