'04 Academic Casualties and why team rankings can be deceiving

[stxbuck]

God made me sleep through English class....it's his plan...Good Lord, haven't these people heard of the concept of "free will"

[CleveBucks]

Four gone at Arkansas. That's about the norm for the SEC.

Four fail to qualify academically for Arkansas

Associated Press

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Four members of the 2004 recruiting class signed by Arkansas football coach Houston Nutt and his assistants will be heading for junior colleges or prep schools in the fall instead of donning Razorback uniforms.

The four -- including three from Arkansas high schools -- have not qualified academically to attend the university.

In announcing his signees in February, Nutt said he expected that at least seven Razorback recruits would have to attend a junior college or prep school in the fall, instead of enrolling at Fayetteville.

Texarkana defensive lineman Freddie Barnett failed to make a high enough score in his last attempt on the ACT. The 6-foot-1, 300-pound Barnett, who runs 40 yards in 5 seconds, will enroll at either Trinity Valley (Texas) Junior College or Hargrave (Va.) Military Academy.

Linebacker Fred Fairchild, signed from Little Rock Central, is heading for Hargrave. At 6-3 and 190, Fairchild runs the 40 in 4.6 seconds.

Fayetteville quarterback Woody Wilson also came up short on the ACT, and plans to enroll at Coffeyville (Kan.) Junior College. The 6-1, 180 pound Wilson's time in the 40 is 4.62 seconds.

Waco (Texas) University High School graduate Ryan Young, an offensive lineman, will attend an unspecified junior college.

Players attending a prep school like Hargrave can keep four years of eligibility intact for a four-year college, but junior-college attendance can use up one or two years of eligibility, depending on whether the player red-shirts for a year.

[The KSB]

Originally Posted by stxbuck

God made me sleep through English class....it's his plan...Good Lord, haven't these people heard of the concept of "free will"

God didn't make me sleep through English, Beowolf did

[tundra1]

Just remember when we're talking about non-qualifiers that we should all wish the best to Dennis Kennedy.


I know his circumstances are different from most of the others--but many of those non-qualifiers, no matter which school they signed their LOI with, really were trying to qualify, and some of them, including our own DK, probably just faced some issues that weren't easy to overcome.

[coxew]

I thought helpinghand said Kennedy finally made it through the clearinghouse and was waiting to be cleared through admissions. Has anything been finalzied with DK?

[LordJeffBuck]

God didn't make me sleep through English, Beowolf did

Great line! (even though I actually liked Beowulf).

[Buckskin86]

free insiders

Insiders article discussing the incoming prep school class at Hargrave. Alot of familiar names (Olu Hall, Lorenzo Washington, Willie Young). More indication that there might be good reasons for players dropping off the tOSU radar.

NCST might want to start looking into Hargrave as a branch campus (Willie Young, Andre Brown in '04 and guys like Tory Holt in years past, Anthony Hill, Darrell Blackmon in '03. NCST has a coach designated to recruit Hargrave Academy

[ntd]

Hargrave sounds like it must have one hell of a good football team

I must admit, some of these guys certainly deserve what they got...they've been given schollies to good schools so they can get an education and make something out of themselves, but they just won't buckle down and do what is required of them. If they put half of the effort they put into the weightroom into their academics, all of these kids would be gearing up for fall classes.