OT: Xavier Rathan-Mayes Ineligible for the year

[tcf15]

Wow...

https://twitter.com/eddaigneault/status/372058468527509504

 

[HuskyBballFan]

Can you imagine...

 

[aceboon]

makes you wonder if UConn stopped recruiting him because of academics after the way his visit got cancelled

 

[superjohn]

Pretty damn happy we didn't get this kid.

 

[tcf15]

makes you wonder if UConn stopped recruiting him because of academics after the way his visit got cancelled

Guess studying for his SATs didn't work out so well.

 

[husky99]

Was very odd how that ended...

 

[ctchamps]

Meanwhile we got a kid who has his academics in order and still may not get to play this season.

 

[aceboon]

yikes

Jeff Borzello
@jeffborzello
Regarding Xavier Rathan-Mayes, a source tells me that the NCAA did not accept a full year of credits that he took at a high school in NC.

 

[UConNick]

Wow... I'm shocked. I considered this kid a legit player, and I was pretty unhappy when we missed on him. Guess that turned out to be a blessing in disguise. That SAT bit should have raised a red flag, now that I look back.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

XRM is really good, so he wasn't exactly a throw-in just to get Wiggins. But poor Leonard Hamilton had a great chance to get the best player in the country given his parents' FSU connections as well as the XRM package deal scenario. He ends up with neither (at least for this year).

 

[bmo22]

Snaer is gone, they wiffed on Wiggins, and now XRM is ineligible. Things are looking up in Tallahassee. The Seminoles will be the ACC's version of Rutgers this season.

 

[UCONNfan1]

Meanwhile we got a kid who has his academics in order and still may not get to play this season.

That still makes no sense to me. Basically, he was too smart - took too many classes, so he's ineligible? good grief.

 

[TheRogers]

yikes

Jeff Borzello
@jeffborzello
Regarding Xavier Rathan-Mayes, a source tells me that the NCAA did not accept a full year of credits that he took at a high school in NC.

That's just wrong! Those 36 AP AFAM credits from UNC are very very legit!

 

[ZackB05]

@SIPeteThamel: I feel for Xavier Rathan-Mayes. "Schools" run by AAU coaches are not a good idea. Another career hurt by Ro Russell.

 

[huskymedic]

@SIPeteThamel: I feel for Xavier Rathan-Mayes. "Schools" run by AAU coaches are not a good idea. Another career hurt by Ro Russell.

http://m.nbcsports.com/content/florida-state’s-xavier-rathan-mayes-no-30-recruit-ruled-ineligible

"Rathan-Mayes failed to make it through the NCAA’s Eligibility Center as they refused to accept a year of credits that he took at a high school in North Carolina, according to a report. He spent a season at Christian Faith Center Academy, which was run by Ro Russell." ..."Kevin Thomas (Texas) and Braeden Anderson (Kansas) were also ruled ineligible as a result of their time at Russell’s school."

http://shelby.tv/video/vimeo/37868744/fifth-estate-fast-break (long watch but the backstory on Ro Russell)

 

[Dove]

That still makes no sense to me. Basically, he was too smart - took too many classes, so he's ineligible? good grief.

Can you imagine if his father and brother died? The NCAA would have him sit out a second year.

 

[pj]

makes you wonder if UConn stopped recruiting him because of academics after the way his visit got cancelled

This is what I heard when it happened last fall ... I said so on this board but many people here corrected me saying he had no academic issues. My source who said XRM was rejected by UConn admissions was second-hand so I couldn't be certain it was true.

 

[tcf15]

http://m.nbcsports.com/content/florida-state’s-xavier-rathan-mayes-no-30-recruit-ruled-ineligible

"Rathan-Mayes failed to make it through the NCAA’s Eligibility Center as they refused to accept a year of credits that he took at a high school in North Carolina, according to a report. He spent a season at Christian Faith Center Academy, which was run by Ro Russell." ..."Kevin Thomas (Texas) and Braeden Anderson (Kansas) were also ruled ineligible as a result of their time at Russell’s school."

http://shelby.tv/video/vimeo/37868744/fifth-estate-fast-break (long watch but the backstory on Ro Russell)

This article gives some background on Russell, too: http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh...ing-job-wake-devastating-fifth-060520443.html

Didn't know he was Denham Brown's AAU coach, either.

 

[aceboon]

This is what I heard when it happened last fall ... I said so on this board but many people here corrected me saying he had no academic issues. My source who said XRM was rejected by UConn admissions was second-hand so I couldn't be certain it was true.

lol, I was one of those people, I thought you were getting the Jordan Bell situation mixed up because he had his visit cancelled due to him not taking the SAT yet at that time, my fault. Makes alot of sense now, surprising that none of the beat writers knew of it because they never mentioned it. Not that they would have to slander him, but its not like they didn't use academics as the reason that the staff didn't go hard after Kuran Iverson.

 

[UConn990411]

I really do hate to see this happen to a young man.
Hopefully he takes a year to get his academics in order, and this won't have much of a long-term effect on his basketball career.

But duck*, I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy seeing FSU suffer.

 

[superjohn]

What kind of advice do these kids get? Some of these AAU coaches/wannabe agents are incredibly shady and really screw up these kids lives, it's sad to see. Can't believe his dad allowed him to go to this shady school.

 

[upstater]

I really do hate to see this happen to a young man.
Hopefully he takes a year to get his academics in order, and this won't have much of a long-term effect on his basketball career.

But f* , I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy seeing FSU suffer.

He has to leave the school, doesn't he? I mean, he doesn't have enough credits.

How was he admitted anyway?

 

[noeynox]

I really do hate to see this happen to a young man.
Hopefully he takes a year to get his academics in order, and this won't have much of a long-term effect on his basketball career.

But f* , I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy seeing FSU suffer.

Can I ask why? They're like, irrelevant when it comes to hoops. I mean they make the tournament more often the say.... PC, but overall I can't see why you could muster the energy to see them suffer.

 

[pj]

He has to leave the school, doesn't he? I mean, he doesn't have enough credits.

How was he admitted anyway?

He doesn't have enough credits in the NCAA's eyes so he's ineligible. But he had enough credits in FSU admissions eyes, so he can enroll. As far as I know the NCAA cannot prevent someone from getting an athletic scholarship or from being admitted to school, they can only render them ineligible to play.

 

[Fishy]

He has to leave the school, doesn't he? I mean, he doesn't have enough credits.

How was he admitted anyway?

I would think he would have to leave school, but as with Ledo at Providence last year, somehow these guys are being allowed to stay.

No idea why.