Leaving aside that the NCAA is a corrupt awful organization situation that should be destroyed and salt strewn and that its leadership should have their heads mounted on pikes to discourage similar behavior, but look at it from Cleveland State's POV: kid commits and red shirts, wasting a scholarship, and then leaves having contributed nothing to the program and without so much as a how do you do. I can see how they might be a tad petulant about his pursuit of a waiver. Not saying it's right or good but like Chris Rock said about OJ cutting his wife's head off for letting Ron Goldman drive his Ferrari: I'm not saying he should have killed her, but I understand.
It'll be interesting to see what the NCAA does with Eli Wright and WKU, because it's almost the exact same situation: he's now transferred to a third school (also in his home state) in three years after redshirting and never playing a game at his second.