So are we completely confident that Roscoe, Alex and Bradley did not hurt APR and that Drummond/Lamb also had no effect?
If a player gets a point for being eligible to return plus a point for actually returning, that's (perhaps) 10 points above UConn didn't get. Are all 10 points recouped from new additions?
Sorry, my UConn degree is not sufficient to help me understand this arcane BS.
You get waivers for transfers and players leaving early for the pros. So they simply do not count past the fall semester of last year. And someone reported that Roscoe had the GPA to transfer. Oriakhi had a high GPA. Drummond and Lamb )and every other player that leaves UConn for the pros in the future) did not negatively impact it because of the new (counter-educational) measures that UConn installed after the APR debacle. Such as mandatory intersession courses.
The NCAA only requires players to take 6 credits per session to be eligible. It doesn't say which session those credits must be taken in as long as the session coincides with a part of the bball season. Well, bball season is insanely long, so if you can get your players in intersession courses in late December/early January, they will have fulfilled their eligibility requirements. I'm certain this is what Kentucky does. I know UConn changed to this 2 years ago, but I'm not sure that the program is as radical as Kentucky's (i.e. do students not take Spring semester courses at UConn?) The session question is interesting because some schools are on trimester systems that end in February and start in late March. That's why the NCAA can't legislate which session counts. The NCAA also has trouble with this question when it slams schools like Cal. Tech that allow players 3 weeks to drop out of courses (and therefore they're not locked into the 6 credits while they begin play). The NCAA would seem to be encouraging Cal. Tech to place its athletes in intersession course instead (what a howl!).
I don't want to come down too hard on UConn for changing over to intersessions because now this is the rage all over America for regular students. As schools take big money hits, they are installing month-long intersession courses in January (no federal funding, no scholarship, must all be paid out of student pockets) which will be taught by part-timers earning $2500 per class. This is being advertised as "get out of school sooner." So, the lowered standards for athletes are also lower standards for students. More money for schools and less pay for staff.
My school did this. I start in late January next year, I believe the 28th. My spring break has been moved to the 3rd or 4th week (which means, if the BE had stayed together, I would have begun to miss the BET anyway, since every spring Break I got together with my brothers in NYC for the BET).
