Spoke to Q. Evans today
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and I am just inferring this, that he is attending the spring semester at Starkville High School. At least that is what I took from it.
It is now to the point that Bama and LSU and the other upper echelon programs (Texas, Flarda, Flarda St) simply will not, and do not have to, roll the dice on a guy with dicey academics. Same with Ward. It's not that Les doesn't want Ward and Evans. It's that Les doesn't have to risk taking them to the exclusion of another one that looks and moves just like em and is fully qualified.
I've been watching recruiting in the SEC for years. It's pretty much the same pattern with Mississippi guys every year. Interest increases as they move through the evaluation process generally around the camp schedules. They blow up on the recruiting websites and get some attention. Coaches start making calls inquiring about character and academics. Then interest wanes. When you see the pattern, you know there's probably a bad character issue or academic trouble. In an odd way, this is the pool that mullens and freeze will make their living on.
I've been watching recruiting in the SEC for years. It's pretty much the same pattern with Mississippi guys every year. Interest increases as they move through the evaluation process generally around the camp schedules. They blow up on the recruiting websites and get some attention. Coaches start making calls inquiring about character and academics. Then interest wanes. When you see the pattern, you know there's probably a bad character issue or academic trouble. In an odd way, this is the pool that mullens and freeze will make their living on.
if he was apparently very close or on the cusp of being able to come in early at MSU this January, why would Quay have ANY trouble getting college qualified by the end of this coming semester in HS? Seems like a guy that is an eligibility question mark would not even be in the discussion of being an early enrollee.
Eligibility is not just based of HS graduation obviously. It's a combination of grade point average in core classes and standardized test scores. You have to be cleared by the NCAA and also accepted by the university. For many schools, it is standard protocol to accept anyone the NCAA clears, but lest we forget Jamar Chaney, who was not admitted to UGA and steered to MSU by Richt.
It's pretty simple. Word has it, he lacks the amount of required High School credits to leave early. That does not mean that he does not have his ACT scores, it just means he will need another credit in math, science, english, etc.<div>
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And how many times have we seen situations develop where a guy looks to be completely safe academically only to find out that he took 21 hours in a summer term? Or certain core requirements have not been met? Or his ACT is under review.
The bigger programs have compliance departments that are like the f'n IRS. They scrutinize every last detail down to the way the staple was inserted. Case in point: Duron Carter (ok, this example is a little off since he's a transfer from Ohio State, but the point applies). Carter has missed all year because Bama's compliance dept refused to green light his academic record from high school. He was admitted and enrolled at tOSU, but Bama's compliance nazis shut him down. So Saban sat his ***.
My point is that this sort of scrutiny by the bigger programs helps us stay in the game for these guys. Les and Saban and Jimbo and etc etc are simply going to move on to the next guy once it seems likely that qualifying will be dicey. They'll get it wrong from time to time. And we and TBUN will be the beneficiaries.
The bigger programs have compliance departments that are like the f'n IRS. They scrutinize every last detail down to the way the staple was inserted. Case in point: Duron Carter (ok, this example is a little off since he's a transfer from Ohio State, but the point applies). Carter has missed all year because Bama's compliance dept refused to green light his academic record from high school. He was admitted and enrolled at tOSU, but Bama's compliance nazis shut him down. So Saban sat his ***.
My point is that this sort of scrutiny by the bigger programs helps us stay in the game for these guys. Les and Saban and Jimbo and etc etc are simply going to move on to the next guy once it seems likely that qualifying will be dicey. They'll get it wrong from time to time. And we and TBUN will be the beneficiaries.