OT: Xavier Rathan-Mayes Ineligible for the year

[upstater]

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.

Yeah, but, the NCAA is not going to allow him to play next year either, until he completes those credits, so FSU isn't going to hold a scholarship for him.

 

[Waquoit]

Pretty damn happy we didn't get this kid.

Since at the time is was all the AD's fault, does he get credit now?

 

[upstater]

Since at the time is was all the AD's fault, does he get credit now?

The kid who didn't come was Brandon Austin, but... I don't think that was a huge deal now with Hamilton on board. Whatever minutes Austin was going to get are now Hamilton's, and if Larrier joins in, Austin is a distant memory.

 

[ctchamps]

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

And make him wear a cool hat!

 

[ctchamps]

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.

Of course free scooter won't give the current administration props for this.

 

[ctchamps]

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.

They didn't want UConn in the ACC could be starters.