{"id":20912,"date":"2014-07-15T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mcknight-wont-be-able-to-play-for-vols\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T18:10:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:10:13","slug":"mcknight-wont-be-able-to-play-for-vols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mcknight-wont-be-able-to-play-for-vols\/","title":{"rendered":"McKnight won&#8217;t be able to play for Vols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knoxville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Southeastern Conference denied former Florida Gulf Coast forward Eric McKnight&#8217;s bid to play for Tennessee as a graduate transfer this season on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The school had announced in May that McKnight planned on playing for the Volunteers in his final year of eligibility during the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been informed that Eric McKnight has been denied the graduate transfer waiver by the SEC. We pursued this issue through the proper protocol, and I respect the process. Although we are disappointed that Eric will not be joining our program, we are focused on moving forward,&#8221; Tennessee head coach Donnie Tyndall said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-9 McKnight averaged 6.9 points and 5.1 rebounds per game for Florida Gulf Coast last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knoxville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Southeastern Conference denied former Florida Gulf Coast forward Eric McKnight&#8217;s bid to play for Tennessee as a graduate transfer this season on Tuesday. The school had announced in May that McKnight planned on playing for the Volunteers in his final year of eligibility during the upcoming season. &#8220;We have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20913,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20912\/revisions\/20913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}