Bama being bama

[thawks1]

The NCAA made an error and he should of been ruled eligible. He is doing fine at JC. He basically screwed up his freshman year of high school.

 

[Fryowa]

The NCAA made an error and he should of been ruled eligible. He is doing fine at JC. He basically screwed up his freshman year of high school.

Not saying I don’t believe you, but do you have some proof?

 

[Fryowa]

Every kid is a risk. Kids leave all the time for various reasons. He is probably a bigger risk, but he is good enough for Alabama to want. Probably worth it. He also seemed to really kick it in towards the end and got really close. Just because it wasnt important enough at 17 or 18, doesn't mean it's not in another year or two. He seemed to be going in the right direction at least.

If he does come here I hope you’re right.

 

[ShemHawk]

If he had academic eligibility problems already in high school, and again at IWCC, I don’t think he’ll work out at Iowa and it’s probably better if he just goes to Alabama. Does anyone want to waste energy on a kid who can’t pass high school level classes, especially when he’ll have to maintain at least a semblance of earning a bachelors degree? All while being a full time, year-round P5 football player? When he was first supposed to come to Iowa he couldn’t even enroll because his grades were so shitty, what makes you think with the zero tolerance staff we have at Iowa that he’d be likely to stay eligible...Could he all of a sudden turn it around and be a good student? Maybe. But I wouldn’t want to bank on a “maybe” and spend a ton of time and effort developing the kid only to risk him washing out, not to mention the scholarship.

Not passing the high school classes tells me he doesn’t want it bad enough and doesn’t take his life serious enough to be a dependable teammate.

Have you read this or this? Basically, it seems he didn't take things seriously early on, perhaps in part because he never thought he'd get to a big enough stage for it to matter. From everything I've read about him, it seems like he has been headed in the right direction ever since he had his "oh sh!t" moment, but was so far behind the 8 ball that it has taken longer than expected/hoped. I think he gets it and will be fine.

 

[Playmaker]

you have to be cut throat in recruiting....something Ferments is not. I still remember him stating that he would not be trying to poach any Pedo recruits when they got the penalty leveled against them....simply unbelievable.

 

[deanvogs]

you have to be cut throat in recruiting....something Ferments is not. I still remember him stating that he would not be trying to poach any Pedo recruits when they got the penalty leveled against them....simply unbelievable.

Nixon was just another Ferremuts lazy recruit. Nothern Ill kid, no talent, lazy recruiting.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

Too many people misunderstand Occam's Razor. Given two or more theories that both equally explain the observations at hand, the one with the fewest assumptions is the most preferred.

Case 1 assumptions:
Alabama reads BHGP or HN.
Alabama chose to not look at some pretty obvious rules that the Iowa Compliance dept. happened to know
Alabama did not look at the appeal to see that I was won and he was academically eligible.

Case 2 assumptions:
Alabama didn't care because they knew the NCAA wouldn't do anything.

That's 3:1 in favor of Case 2 via Occam's Razor.

Or, Alabama simply texted and spoke to the kid since he is at a JC and the kid had no idea he was still signed to Iowa so he thought he could still speak to them. Is this due diligence on 'Bama's part? Dunno how the NCAA legislates due diligence in this type of situation. I could see this being just one of those things.

But, if he signed and he and Iowa won his appeal but he went to IWCC because he was already enrolled, just for simplicity: perhaps it was too late to enroll at Iowa, then it sounds like he still will enroll at Iowa in Jan. That would make me happy.

There is another thread about this from earlier in the week where I wished the NLI could be binding while a kid was taking care of academic issues at a non D1 school. This addresses it to a degree.

 

[Playmaker]

Ferments occasionally tries to land a big recruit....usually they have Iowa ties....but he still ends up failing 9x out of 10.

 

[deanvogs]

Ferments occasionally tries to land a big recruit....usually they have Iowa ties....but he still ends up failing 9x out of 10.

But you said he is lazy? Why would he try to land even one big recruit?