Kendrick Hardy '09 RB

[ChiTownVol]

Sucks. I wish luck though

 

[rexvol]

just means that Lacy is ours

 

[rexvol]

i think our flirtation with Hardy is why Oku jetted

 

[TVOLS]

i think our flirtation with Hardy is why Oku jetted

I was thinking it was lacy.

 

[The Dude]

Forgive me for not bothering reading through the thread, but is he going to be a partial qualifier? I know CUSA schools are allowed to take them, and that would seemed to be a pretty good reason for a top flight guy like him to sign with Southern Miss.

 

[VegasVol2]

No nthats not true. If youve followed recruiting for a while, you would know that there are no more partial qualifiers. Cusa and us for the most part have the same academic standards with the exception of Vandy, Tulane, SMU, Rice etc. No more partial qualifiers, we just got outrecruited. We still have a great class. The same thing was being said about Deandre brown last year but he fully qualified as well. Some people just cant accept that fact. Lets not kid ourselves.

 

[The Dude]

No nthats not true. If youve followed recruiting for a while, you would know that there are no more partial qualifiers. Cusa and us for the most part have the same academic standards with the exception of Vandy, Tulane, SMU, Rice etc. No more partial qualifiers, we just got outrecruited. We still have a great class. The same thing was being said about Deandre brown last year but he fully qualified as well. Some people just cant accept that fact. Lets not kid ourselves.

Kind of a smart alecky response there.

newsobserver.com | ACC Now - ACC's policy on nonqualifiers

If you ask the ACC if it allows schools to bring in athletes who are academic nonqualifiers, Shane Lyons, the ACC’s associate commissioner for compliance, will tell you no and yes.

Confusing? Definitely.

The ACC does not allow “nonqualifiers” — athletes who fail to meet the NCAA’s minimum academic requirements for freshman eligibility — to play.

But, as Lyons put it Wednesday, the ACC does allow “nonqualifiers with an asterisk” — that is, nonqualifiers who receive a “partial waiver” from the NCAA Initial Eligibility Waiver Committee.

..What’s the difference between nonqualifier and “nonqualifier with an asterisk”?

A “nonqualifier with an asterisk” is basically the same category as what the NCAA once called a “partial qualifier.”

Before the 2005-06 academic year, the NCAA eliminated “partial qualifier” from its terminology but not the actual process of appealing to the NCAA for enrollment.

“We really are back to our old rule of partial qualifiers,” Lyons said. “Since there are no partial qualifiers, we allow the [NCAA] partial-waiver recipients. There is a process you have to go through to get the waiver, and it’s not an easy approval to get.”

In essence, Lyons said, there are three categories: qualifier, nonqualifier and nonqualifier with a partial waiver.

An athlete qualifies by meeting the NCAA standards for standardized test scores and high school grade-point average. There is a sliding scale for the standards. For example, a student with a 2.5 core GPA needs an 820 on the SAT to be eligible as a freshman.

Under NCAA rules, a nonqualifier is ineligible in the first year of enrollment. The student must pass 24 credit hours and maintain a grade-point average of 1.8 or better to gain eligibility.

 

[The Dude]

And I would question anyone claiming that the SEC holds their schools to higher standards than the ACC.