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Chin Diesel said:
He won't be a scholarship player until next year. He can take whatever he wants in the spring and summer semesters.
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I know that, I was more pointing that out because he was saying players take light course loads in the spring “all the time”. Which isn’t true. 12 credits is a lighter load than the normal 15 but it’s still full time.
 
Wordbomar said:
I know that, I was more pointing that out because he was saying players take light course loads in the spring “all the time”. Which isn’t true. 12 credits is a lighter load than the normal 15 but it’s still full time.
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The ESPN story has him as redshirting next year, too.
 
Towney007 said:
Well the biggest thing is that we can recruit again. I mean the biggest thing to me is we won a major recruiting battle - and one that was kinda complex - with the dropping out, pro interest, going head to head with Pitt and Syracuse.. like this is a big, big win. We can still draw dudes. And we did it through outworking everyone. This is a staff that can get it done. Not trying to be a Debbie Downer - in a way I could almost care less about Akok himself so much as this was really a bigtime message sent by the staff that they can do this.

As for Akok, I like him a lot. I think he's a 2-year guy. But I also think he's got bust potential being so skinny and I dunno.. track record isn't sensational with guys like that and he hasn't lit the world on fire the last few months. NOT down on him - I think he'll be good but he's got some risk.

Important thing is - we won a big recruiting war coming off a year where we were the absolute drizzling crap.. and we didn't just win it, the kid was so sold that he dropped out of a PG year, took an SAT as soon as he could, drove to campus and commiitted after two weeks of turning into Suzie Cheerleader behind the bench. I mean... guys.
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I agree. The buzz of landing a top 30 kid goes a long way towards continuing positive momentum on the recruiting trail. Akok is very talented and I think his career success is going to depend a lot on how patient he is. This is why I love that he will be on campus working with the team, but redshirting. He may actually need 2 years after his redshirt year. The reason he rose so high in the rankings is because he had some dominating performances against the highest of competition. He also had more games in single digit scoring than double digit during the Adidas Gauntlet. If he is in no immediate rush he is going to be a stud.
 
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Wordbomar said:
This is actually a misconception. Players have to take at least 12 credits to be eligible to play sports.
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Not sure which part of my post you're referring to. If you're referring to the part about maintaining eligibility, that pertains to players who are playing on schoarship, and he won't be.

If you're referring to the part of my post that relates to intersession courses, those are counted for the subsequent semester. So---if I do 6 credits in winter intersession, I can do 6 credits in spring, and that counts as my required NCAA 12.

But, the university also has rules. To remain matriculated, you have to be at least half-time, unless you take a leave/get a waiver.

Think about why the intersessions count toward the following semester. Schools all over the country have totally different semesters, some are trimesters, some begin again in April--AFTER the NCAA tourney.

This is why the NCAA looks at aggregate credits for athletes maintaining eligibility. I know a kid that went through this at my university. He was looking at maintaining eligibility while doing half-semester courses, so he piled them on in winter intersession.
 
Wordbomar said:
This is actually a misconception. Players have to take at least 12 credits to be eligible to play sports.
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Here's an NCAA Q/A .pdf answer:

Q. How many credits do I need to complete (pass) each year to maintain eligibility?

A. A minimum of 18 credit hours must be completed during the academic school year (fall and spring semesters). Also, at least 6 credit hours must be passed in each individual semester in the academic year. Summer school courses can count towards eligibility and both percentage and GPA requirements are determined by your initial semester of enrollment.
 
upstater said:
Not sure which part of my post you're referring to. If you're referring to the part about maintaining eligibility, that pertains to players who are playing on schoarship, and he won't be.

If you're referring to the part of my post that relates to intersession courses, those are counted for the subsequent semester. So---if I do 6 credits in winter intersession, I can do 6 credits in spring, and that counts as my required NCAA 12.

But, the university also has rules. To remain matriculated, you have to be at least half-time, unless you take a leave/get a waiver.

Think about why the intersessions count toward the following semester. Schools all over the country have totally different semesters, some are trimesters, some begin again in April--AFTER the NCAA tourney.

This is why the NCAA looks at aggregate credits for athletes maintaining eligibility. I know a kid that went through this at my university. He was looking at maintaining eligibility while doing half-semester courses, so he piled them on in winter intersession.
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This makes sense. When I played D2 baseball we had to maintain 12 credit hours a semester to maintain eligibility. But D1 could be different. I just assumed NCAA would be blanket rules on this. Thanks!
 
Wordbomar said:
This makes sense. When I played D2 baseball we had to maintain 12 credit hours a semester to maintain eligibility. But D1 could be different. I just assumed NCAA would be blanket rules on this. Thanks!
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Same when I was d2 6 years ago.

I would imagine the rule is for all of NCAA.
 
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The climb back to the top continues :cool:
 
Chief00 said:
Anyone who saw the UCF vs Memphis football game today, wouldn’t call the AAC a “garbage conference”. You are stuck in the past. The AAC is an up and coming conference in growing metro areas much larger than the ACC. Get with the times!
Chief
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For football at least, the AAC is a much better league than its reputation, in a sport where reputation is king.
 
3rdbass said:
Yeah we always told you to have some faith in the this turnaround with a new coach like Hurley especially with our tradition.
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True, Chief and others took a lot of flak from the nervous nelly’s, but we stayed true to our word. We had to let him do it his way with the blessing of Mass Rivals. More to come too!
 
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This was a great come back recruiting year no matter what happens with the other players we are chasing. Akok will make all the front court players better. UConn is back!
 
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Rico444 said:
So not only does he join the team this year, but he confirms the NBA stuff this year isn't happening and will be here in 2019.

Awesome! Hurley's first big recruiting win.
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Im thrilled he's here but I'm even happier for the kid deciding to go to school and put off all that NBA nonsense for the time being. I like to see kids put themselves in position to succeed. I really hope this works out for him and of course us.
 
What makes this land so great is that Akok was priority #1 for Sewer-Cuse. They were in to see him multiple times this summer. They have like a 100 page thread about him on their website.
 
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