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Ty Isaac: Michigan RB could have hard time being granted hardship waiver

By Jack Crosby

Nov 9, 2013; Berkeley, CA, USA; USC Trojans running back Ty Isaac (29) carries the ball against the California Golden Bears during the third quarter at Memorial Stadium. The USC Trojans defeated the California Golden Bears 62-28. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 9, 2013; Berkeley, CA, USA; USC Trojans running back Ty Isaac (29) carries the ball against the California Golden Bears during the third quarter at Memorial Stadium. The USC Trojans defeated the California Golden Bears 62-28. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Michigan Wolverines football program got a huge gift this past week as former USC Trojans running back Ty Isaac chose Ann Arbor as his transfer destination as he sought out somewhere to be closer to home. The reason for the transfer was to be closer to his ailing mother at home as she recover from surgery complications that affected her hearing, thus her ability to fly.

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Due to the reasoning for the transfer, Isaac is seeking a medical hardship waiver that would make him immediately eligible this season to take the field for head coach Brady Hoke and the Wolverines.

Although, that might prove a lot more difficult than Isaac and others think, according to former NCAA compliance offer John Infante.

“(The family health issue) has to be a debilitating injury,” said John Infante, via MLive.com. “It doesn’t have to be life-threatening, necessarily, but it would have to be something that prevented her from working or getting around, if it’s a surgery for hearing loss, I’m not sure if that’ll qualify, but it might.”

Infante went on to add, “His bigger problem, though, is that you’re required to transfer within 100 miles of the family member. Being four hours away or 200 miles probably isn’t going to cut it. There are considerations that can trump that, one thing they say is that if you’re dealing with someone suffering from such a serious illness that they’ve been given a defined amount of time left to live, then all other considerations are off the table. But in this case, it doesn’t sound like that’s the case.”

Of course, Isaac does have a lot of eligibility left, so not seeing the field this season isn’t the end of the world, but the Wolverines could certainly use the help in the running game.

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