Started By
Message
re: All SEC commits headed to JUCO thread
Posted on 2/3/15 at 12:05 pm to ProjectP2294
Posted on 2/3/15 at 12:05 pm to ProjectP2294
quote:
How did john Odo do it?
Depends on how long he had on his Visa and what type it was
0
Posted on 2/3/15 at 12:42 pm to TheJones
quote:
He will. So is Key
Interesting. You're wrong but interesting nonetheless. Nice Troll.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 12:50 pm to MenloDawg
The only people who say he's going to JUCO are the people who have been on message boards yelling it because they expected his commitment. At worst he will sit out a year and be qualified for 2016, but he will remain at LSU the entire time. He won't go anywhere except for LSU, I guarantee it.
This post was edited on 2/3/15 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 2/3/15 at 12:59 pm to buckRogers
I just envision the kid going to at least prep school if not JUCO considering his academic situation. If he instead just sits out 2015 in Baton Rouge, where does he get needed credits/classes?
Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:15 pm to MenloDawg
He'll get cleared by the NCAA regardless, he'll likely get caught in the SEC offices. If he gets cleared by the NCAA but not the SEC, they can make him take classes for a semester without being eligible to play, and if he obtains a 2.5 GPA then he is cleared. It's more or less a way for kids who went to weird high schools to prove that they can handle the academics and get amnesty for issues involving their high school credits. Travonte Valantine just went through these steps.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:38 pm to buckRogers
quote:
He'll get cleared by the NCAA regardless
This is what I'm not clear on. Why is this assumed to be the case? All I've read is that this will be the sticking point. Seems like UGA, Bama, AU would have continued to recruit him and entertained taking him if grades were not such an issue. I'm not trying to come from a sour grapes perspective, just genuinely curious as to how he qualifies given that he went from Africa to a school in South Florida to being removed from that school by a Nigerian-American Christian Group in order to enroll in a small private school in Georgia. That's going to be highly scrutinized by the NCAA I'm sure.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:49 pm to MenloDawg
It's just not hard to be cleared by the ncaa. pretty much just a matter of him graduating, which will take summer work, but will get done. basically his georgia high school has to give the ncaa a half-hearted thumbs up and we're good. the sec will do it's own investigation and find problems, which will hold him up. it's just two different sets of standards.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:51 pm to buckRogers
quote:
it's just two different sets of standards.
I'm with you there, I've just been under the impression that he point blank wasn't going to have the necessary credits to graduate high school this year at all. I suppose, depending on how many credits shy he is in May, he may able to do enough summer work to take care of business.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:52 pm to MenloDawg
And I don't think anyone will every really know the circumstances of him moving from Florida to Georgia. I don't think it had much to do with academics as much as the location of the florida high school. Hialeah, FL is an warzone, probably was just a really poor place to drop off a foreign student-athelte.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:54 pm to MenloDawg
quote:
may able to do enough summer work to take care of business.
That's what LSU plans on. He's definitely a reshirt player. If it wasn't because of academics, it would be because of his raw nature in play.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 2:16 pm to MenloDawg
quote:
I just envision the kid going to at least prep school if not JUCO considering his academic situation. If he instead just sits out 2015 in Baton Rouge, where does he get needed credits/classes?
Word is that he'll likely be able to wrap up his needed course-work in summer school. He is a planned red-shirt in any case. Should be able to stay in BR is what they're saying. Hopefully that's accurate as this young man needs some stability after a nomadic last couple of years.
Page 3 of 3
Popular
Back to top
Follow SECRant for SEC Football News