Montrell Dobbs Won't Meet UConn Qualifying Standards

[Carl Spackler]

BTW - I'm pissed off about this.

 

[freescooter]

If you've never been thorugh the NCAA clearing house process, it is usually pretty straight forward. The NCAA requires a certain number of high school credits in the major academic areas, math science, English, social sciences. But there are some specific courses and programs that you need to take (and pass obviously) to qualify. Adn there are a list of courses from just about every school that are not acceptable. You can go to the NCAA website and fidn your school, find the class. Usually they are less academic classes or remedial type things, so you don't get credit under english for a remedial class, for example. Or if the school offers Drivers Ed as they do in some states, those are not acceptable. Some types of classes which aren't deemed to be academically rigorous enough...I think there was a social studies class on law for the layman at one school I know for example. They revised it after a few years, made it more rigorous and now it is acceptable.

 

[metsfan2323]

Does anyone know why he can't go to school December - June and earn the credits he needs? Do school years end in November now?

 

[SAMCRO]

Very curious what classes a school would offer that wouldn't count...

Also very curious how this is just being discovered now... Would have thought/hoped someone in the HS Career/Guidance office, or I doon't know, maybe the Dean of students would have noticed this along the lines.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

this would be 2 4*commits in the staffs 1st year together that we cant get on campus. we didn't spend all that $$ to build duke football. wtf get in the game or dont play.

Agree. Either all or all out. Not the Yankee Conference anymore. And for the record, UConn is one injury away from having the RB position mirror the QB fiasco. What is it about UConn recruiting playmakers?

 

[sportsart]

Sean

Bizlaw has hired me to collect the money you owe him. (finger to nose pushing it sideways)

He'll only accept an unmarked crisp $1 bill and don't be wearing a wire. The bar frowns on this kind of criminal activity.

Go wait by the phone booth on the corner for further instructions. (roll phone booth movie here)

 

[sportsart]

Also very curious how this is just being discovered now... Would have thought/hoped someone in the HS Career/Guidance office, or I doon't know, maybe the Dean of students would have noticed this along the lines.

One would think Coach P and staff would have caught it. Then again maybe everyone new and hoped they could fix it by the end of the semester and just got word they couldn't.

 

[freescooter]

Agree. Either all or all out. Not the Yankee Conference anymore. And for the record, UConn is one injury away from having the RB position mirror the QB fiasco. What is it about UConn recruiting playmakers?

If the guy isn't eligible I'm not sure what the university can do about it. It isn't the first kid we've lost because he didn't meet academic requirements, though I thought a year of prep was supposed to address those deficiencies. But not taking a kid who doesn't qualify doesn't equal going back to the Yankee conference. I mean, if you look at the schools who had interest, then consider that marshall was the only other one to offer, you have to think either he was over-rated or his academics scared some others off. I don't happen to think he was overrated.

 

[HartfordHank]

I don't know if any of you read the comments on dez's page but dobbs' mom wrote on there he was one point from qualifying because he took courses in high school that the NCAA doesn't consider a class. Also she said he is leaving Milford with 3 A's so people who jump down this kids throat saying he is doing well academically are morons. Get the facts before you jump on someone.

If you read the book"The Blind Side" Micheal Ohr took classes online at BYU to eliminate classes he had either bad grades in or were not acceptable to the NCAA. Not sure without looking what they did to get him eligible but they were able to get him eligible. Not sure if it is to late for Dobbs to do the same.

 

[NEforceUConn]

I congratulate Thomas on his career at Yale. And I went to Trinity with an Ansonia football player, bright young man, who played for Trinity.

God rest his soul.

Nonetheless, recruiting is a game of using limited resources (coaches time, official visits, budgets, etc.) wisely. If you are repeatedly getting burned by one school, why in the world wouldn't you use limited resources differently.

On Dobbs - what does it mean one point short? Is that one class credit short, surely he could take one class between now and June?

Anyway if he can't get it done I did hear he's a very good bb player - so Duke will most likely take him.

 

[Adios]

Very curious what classes a school would offer that wouldn't count...

It was an economics class. If I am reading correctly, the high school screwed up. Get that one credit over the spring!

 

[kibblesnbits]

I'm just guessing here, but I suspect that part of the problem is Milford Academy. I think the credits have to be part of a degree program. Since Milford only exists to get football players some extra playing and classroom time, it's calendar apparently ends with the football season. "Good playing son and here's your degree." Now there's nowhere else to go.

 

[cryjeremiah]

Why can't we have nice things?????????

ugh. now my wife is a BYer? great..........

 

[TouchdownHusky]

If the guy isn't eligible I'm not sure what the university can do about it. It isn't the first kid we've lost because he didn't meet academic requirements, though I thought a year of prep was supposed to address those deficiencies. But not taking a kid who doesn't qualify doesn't equal going back to the Yankee conference. I mean, if you look at the schools who had interest, then consider that marshall was the only other one to offer, you have to think either he was over-rated or his academics scared some others off. I don't happen to think he was overrated.

Guess you're right. Happens at Florida & Alabama all the time. They just go out and get another "scholar athlete".